{"id":8032,"date":"2019-10-21T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/a-new-humanism-expo-58-roberto-busa-and-the-first-humanities-computing-center\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T06:40:34","slug":"a-new-humanism-expo-58-roberto-busa-and-the-first-humanities-computing-center","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/a-new-humanism-expo-58-roberto-busa-and-the-first-humanities-computing-center\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0A New Humanism\u00a0\u00bb: Expo \u201958, Roberto Busa, and the First Humanities Computing Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"lecture-by-prof-dr-steven-e-jones-university-of-south-florida\"\n    >\nLecture by Prof. Dr. Steven E. Jones, University of South Florida<\/h2>\n<p>In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Father Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to provide technical and financial support for an ambitious research project: the production using punched card machines of the massive Index Thomisticus. Just over a decade later, Busa had successfully established CAAL, the Centro per L\u2019Automazione dell\u2019Analisi Letteraria (the Center for the Automation of Literary Analysis)\u2014arguably the first dedicated humanities computing center\u2014in a former textile factory near Milan. CAAL was the product of postwar reconstruction, nascent multinationalism, cold-war ideology, and Jesuit culture, as well as the research questions that gave rise to it in the first place. In 1958 Father Busa presented his work in the IBM pavilion at the World\u2019s Fair in Brussels, Expo 58, the official motto of which was \u201cA World View: A New Humanism.\u201d The ambiguities and entanglements behind that demo help us to understand the emergence of Busa\u2019s legendary Center, and shed light on at least one influential prehistory of today\u2019s digital humanities.<\/p><p><\/p><p><strong>Steven Jones<\/strong> is DeBartolo Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of English and Digital Humanities. Before coming to USF in 2016 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at CUNY Grad Center in New York for 2014-2015, and he taught at Loyola University Chicago for 28 years, where he was Founding Co-Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities. He&rsquo;s the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America in 2013, Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal (1993-2004) and Vice President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America (2004-2013), Founding Steering Committee and Executive Board member of NINES (the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship), and co-creator and General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website. He has taught and conducted research in British Romantic literature, textual studies, and digital humanities, and is author of numerous essays and books, including (with co-author George K. Thiruvathukal), Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform, Platform Studies series (MIT Press, 2012), The Emergence of the Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2014), and Roberto Busa, S.J. and the Emergence of Humanities Computing (Routledge, 2016). He is Principal Investigator on a 3D-modeling and archiving project, \u201cReconstructing the First Humanities Computing Center\u201d (supported by a Level II NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant, 2017-2019), and is founder and Faculty Coordinator of the USF DHLabs, a shared space for collaborative research in the humanities.<\/p><p><\/p><p>This event is part of \u00ab\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2dh.uni.lu\/data\/new-horizons-confronting-digital-turn-humanities\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities<\/a><\/strong>\u00ab\u00a0, a lecture series organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C\u00b2DH).<\/p><p>The lecture is followed by a drinks reception.<\/p><p><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"roberto-busa-sj-demonstration-at-ibm-pavilion-expo-58-september-3-1958-brussels-photo-127-courtesy-of-the-busa-archive-universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore-milan\"\n    >\nRoberto Busa, SJ, demonstration at IBM Pavilion, Expo 58, September 3, 1958, Brussels. 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