THEME:

Final meeting of the year. A few recent examples of digital humanities debates and projects and an opportunity to discuss future directions of the lab’s reading group/research workshop as well as its larger goals.

TIME:

Fri, June 7, 2013, 12-2pm.

PLACE:

Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Conference Room, Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Drive, #2-360, Evanston, IL 60208 (map: http://maps.northwestern.edu/#latlngz=42.051%2C-87.675%2C17&lookupid=116).

FOOD:

Lunch served.

READINGS:

• Various authors, “OPEN THREAD: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A HISTORICAL ‘REFUGE’ FROM RACE/CLASS/GENDER/SEXUALITY/DISABILITY?,” Postcolonial Digital Humanities, http://dhpoco.org/blog/2013/05/10/open-thread-the-digital-humanities-as-a-historical-refuge-from-raceclassgendersexualitydisability/, 10 May 2013.

• Ben Schmidt, Whaling Logs series, Sapping Attention:
  • “Reading digital sources: a case study in ship’s logs,”http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/reading-digital-sources-case-study-in.html, 15 November 2012.
  • “Visualizing Ocean Shipping,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/04/visualizing-ocean-shipping.html, 9 April 2012.
  • “Part 1, Data narratives and structural histories: Melville, Maury, and American whaling,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/10/data-narratives-and-structural.html, 30 October 2012.
  • “Part 2, Logbooks and the long history of digitization,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/10/logbooks-and-long-history-of.html, 12 October 2012.
  • “Part 3, Melville Plots,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/10/melville-plots.html, 18 October 2012.
  • “Part 4, Section 1, Machine Learning at sea,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/machine-learning-on-high-seas.html, 1 November 2012.
  • “Part 4, Section 2, When you have a MALLET, everything looks like a nail,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-you-have-mallet-everything-looks.html, 2 November 2012.
  • “Part 5, Where are the individuals in data-driven narratives?,” http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/where-are-individuals-in-data-driven.html, 14 November 2012

SUGGESTED READINGS:

• Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities, 415-509.

MORE INFORMATION:

Contact co-conveners Michael J. Kramer (mjk@northwestern.edu) or Jillana Enteen (j-enteen@northwestern.edu).