In preparation for “The Scholar in Public: A Symposium on Public Humanities” on May 16th, the Public Humanities Colloquium joins with NUDHL to investigate the intersections of digital and public humanities: What’s the relationship between public and digital humanities? How are these two fields poised to train humanists as “scholar-practioners” inside and outside of the academy? What can public and digital humanists learn from each other’s methods of knowledge production and exchange?
Using blog posts from Bethany Nowviskie (“Toward a New Deal”) and Miriam Posner (“What Alt-Ac Can Do, and What it Can’t”), we will consider the role of digital and public humanities in training graduate students for academic and “alt-ac” jobs. We’ll also look at several projects at the intersection of public and digital humanities (keeping in mind Posner’s advice, “Commit to DH people, not DH projects”) to trade insights across our varying disciplinary and professional expertise.
Please take a look at these projects in advance of the meeting:
- Mapping Arts Project, mappingartsproject.org
- Game Changer Chicago Design Lab, lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/gamechanger/
- Classicizing Chicago, www.classicizingchicago.northwestern.edu
Details
Friday, May 9, 2014 – 10am-noon
Gender & Sexuality Studies Classroom, Kresge Hall 2-359
For more information, contact Andrew Keener