{"id":50,"date":"2016-01-03T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athirblog.wordpress.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-01-01T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T02:15:33","slug":"chicago-colloquium-on-digital-humanities-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athir.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities &#038; Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14, 2015, I had the honor of presenting a paper at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lucian.uchicago.edu\/blogs\/dhcs\/dhcs-2015-program\" target=\"_blank\">2015 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities &amp; Computer Science<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Chicago<\/a>. My paper titled, <em>CarrinaCongress: Information Visualization Techniques to Compare Online Identities of the Members of Congress<\/em>, was presented during the session on Algorithm Approaches and came directly from one of the chapters in my dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>I have given talks at several conferences and workshops, but because of the deeply personal nature of this specific research, I found myself somewhat nervous. This was also the first time I publicly discussed my dissertation research, except for a Brown Bag talk at Illinois Tech the week before.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my fears, the conference went rather well. The attendees and other speakers asked some great questions and provided me with helpful feedback. Furthermore, I got several positive messages of support on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/AthirMahmud\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the day\u2019s events, the conference held a small reception where I was approached by one of the amazing keynote speakers, <a href=\"http:\/\/cinema.usc.edu\/directories\/profile.cfm?id=6590\" target=\"_blank\">Tara McPherson<\/a>. \u201cI loved your talk, by the way,\u201d she kindly said. I was both flattered and taken aback. I had found her keynote to be fascinating yet here she was complimenting me. I thank her and let her know of my mutual admiration and respect. After the conference, we followed one another on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>I would say the day ended on a high note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14, 2015, I had the honor of presenting a paper at the 2015 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities &amp; Computer Science at the University of Chicago. My paper titled, CarrinaCongress: Information Visualization Techniques to Compare Online Identities of the Members of Congress, was presented during the session on Algorithm Approaches and came directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,17,9,12,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-conferencesworkshops","category-information-visualization","category-social-media","category-technology","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RG5I-O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}