THEME:
How are digital humanities scholars confronting questions of the field’s emerging methodologies in concrete terms? How do theoretical issues enter into DH “on the ground” and “in the air”? What does—what should—a digital humanities praxis look like?
TIME:
Friday, February 15, 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:
- Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities, 249-367.
- Adeline Koh, “More Hack, Less Yack?: Modularity, Theory and Habitus in the Digital Humanities,” 21 May 2012, http://www.adelinekoh.org/blog/2012/05/21/more-hack-less-yack-modularity-theory-and-habitus-in-the-digital-humanities/
SUGGESTED READINGS:
- Lev Manovich, “Database as Symbolic Form,” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 5 (June 1999), 80-99, http://con.sagepub.com/content/5/2/80 (requires NetID and password, link to Convergence in NUCat, http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=4730039)
- Ben Schmidt, “What Historians Don’t Know About Database Design,” Sapping Attention Blog, 3 March 2011, http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-historians-dont-know-about.html
- Tara McPherson, “U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX,” in Race After the Internet, eds. Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White (New York: Routledge, 2012), http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6270344
- Bethany Nowviskie, “Don’t Circle the Wagons,” 4 March 2012, http://nowviskie.org/2012/dont-circle-the-wagons/
- Ryan Cordell, “DH, Interdisciplinarity, and Curricular Incursion,” 20 February 2012, http://ryan.cordells.us/blog/2012/02/20/dh-interdisciplinarity-and-curricular-incursion/
- Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanties, 368-411.