THEME:
What are the digital humanities?
This introductory meeting focuses on broad issues in the emerging field of the digital humanities, including the question of whether it should be understood or constituted as a field. Our readings include perspectives from literary studies, history, media studies, and other relevant disciplines.
The first meeting also offers an opportunity to discuss the planned schedule and adjust based on interests and goals for the year among participants.
All participants are welcome to post reflections before or after the meeting on the NUDHL blog to continue the conversation. Please add relevant tags to your post in the lower right corner of the posts page.
HASTAC Scholars @ NUDHL are invited to make two posts: (1) reflections on our discussion and (2) a post about how they envision their own research in relation to the digital humanities (ideas, questions, musings, etc.).
For those wishing to participate via Twitter, our hastag is #nudhl.
TIME:
Friday, Oct 5, 2012 – 12-2pm
PLACE:
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Conference Room, Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Drive, #2-360, Evanston, IL 60208 (click for map).
READINGS:
- Matthew K. Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), ix-xvi, 1-71, book available for pickup at Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
- William G. Thomas, II, “Computing and the Historical Imagination,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/view?docId=blackwell/9781405103213/9781405103213.xml&doc.view=content&chunk.id=ss1-2-5&toc.depth=1&brand=9781405103213_brand&anchor.id=0.
- Tara McPherson, “Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities,” Cinema Journal 48, 2 (Winter 2009): 119-123, http://turing.library.northwestern.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=41977874&site=ehost-live (NU NetID username and password required).
ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS:
- Stanley Fish, “The Old Order Changeth,” New York Times, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/the-old-order-changeth, 26 December 2011; “The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality,” New York Times, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/the-digital-humanities-and-the-transcending-of-mortality, 9 January 2012, “Mind Your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation,” New York Times, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/mind-your-ps-and-bs-the-digital-humanities-and-interpretation, 23 January 2012. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Response to Stanley Fish,” http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/blog/response-to-stanley-fish/. Martin Mueller, “Stanley Fish and the Digital Humanities,” Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation Blog, http://cscdc.northwestern.edu/blog/?p=332. William Pannapacker, “The MLA and the Digital Humanities,” http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-MLAthe-Digital/19468/ and “Pannapacker at MLA: The Come-to-DH Moment,” http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/pannapacker-at-the-mla-2-the-come-to-dh-moment/42811. Ted Underwood, “Why digital humanities isn’t actually “the next thing in literary studies,” http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/why-we-dont-actually-want-to-be-the-next-thing-in-literary-studies/. Daniel Paul O’Donnell, “There’s no Next about it”: Stanley Fish, William Pannapacker, and the Digital Humanities as paradiscipline,” http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/2012/06/22/theres-no-next-about-it-stanley-fish-william-pannapacker-and-the-digital-humanities-as-paradiscipline/. Arturo Robertazzi, “What the Heck is the Digital Humanities?,” http://www.arturorobertazzi.it/english/2012/09/10/what-the-heck-is-the-digital-humanities/. Ted Underwood, “How Everyone Gets to Claim They Do DH,” http://tedunderwood.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/how-everyone-gets-to-claim-they-do-dh/.
- Mark Sample, “Notes Toward a Deformed Humanities,”http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/02/notes-towards-a-deformed-humanities/, 2 May 2012; “Scholarly Lies and the Deformed Humanities,” http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/17/scholarly-lies-and-the-deformative-humanities/, Sample Reality Blog, 17 May 2012.
- Tom Scheinfeldt, “Game Change: Digital Technology and Performative Humanities,” 15 February 2012, Found History Blog, http://www.foundhistory.org/2012/02/15/game-change-digital-technology-and-performative-humanities/.