HASTAC III: Disciplinary Practices Panel

Submitted by Kathleen on Apr 21, 2009, 07:29 PM
This panel featured Katherine Mezur (University of Washington) presenting "New Medium: Ditching the Disciplinary Rules and Founding Tech/Performance" and Aden Evens (Dartmouth College) presenting "Desire and the Mouse."

HASTAC III Panel Session: Born Digital Scholarship: New Strategies, Projects and Possibilities

Submitted by Kathleen on Apr 21, 2009, 02:27 AM
During this panel, Tara McPherson, Wendy Chun, Craig Dietrich, and Sharon Daniel discussed boundary-breaking tools, projects, distribution possibilities, and the creation of new vocabularies dealing with digital scholarship. This panel emphasized the importance of human connections on both the level of individual projects as well as consortiums.

HASTAC III Panel Session: Situated in Time and Space: New Developments in the Display of Geographic Data

Submitted by Kathleen on Apr 21, 2009, 01:09 AM
Mano Marks, GEO Developer Advocate at Google, discussed the ways in which emerging geospatial  technologies are being used to visualize spatially-located data

Representing the Past and the Future of Humanities

Submitted by Kathleen on Feb 12, 2009, 10:27 AM
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology.  For more information, visit http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Index/Entries/2009/1/26_HASTAC_III.html or contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Q&A with Brett Bobley, Director of the NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

Submitted by Kathleen on Feb 01, 2009, 06:05 PM
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 HASTAC Scholars Kathleen Smith and Michael Gavin asked Brett Bobley--Director of the Office of the Digital Humanities for the National Endowment for the Humanities--his thoughts about "The Future of the Digital Humanities."  Please read below for his answers, and please share your thoughts in the HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/02-02-09The-Future-of-the-Digital-Humanities.

Possibility of a shared sense of past in the online community

Submitted by Kathleen on Sep 14, 2008, 01:30 PM
Right now I am doing research for my doctoral dissertation at the Duke August Library (HAB) in Wolfenbuettel, Germany. This is a beautiful city -- many of the buildings here survived WWII intact, so the older parts of the city have a very historic presence. Another scholar working here explained