Digital Humanities and the Disciplines - Conference

For those of you in the NY/NJ/PA area, I encourage you to come participate/attend a conference on "Digital Humanities and the Disciplines," which begins the afternoon of Thurs. Oct. 2 and continues for most of the day on Friday, Oct. 3.  

This conference is run by Rutgers' own Center for Cultural Analysis. Their aim in this conference is to assess the current state of the Digital Humanities and to plot the future of this burgeoning set of practices and inquiries, both here at Rutgers and in the scholarly community at large.

You can find the schedule here: http://cca.rutgers.edu/events/conferences/ and copied, below.

We've asked six innovators in the field to speak to the ways in which new media have (and have not) changed business as usual in their home disciplines, and to reflect on how new media resources and tools might transform interdisciplinary scholarship.  Each of the speakers has done groundbreaking work of one kind or another.  Dan Cohen's Center for History and New Media has developed a number of terrific tools, such as the citation-manager Zotero (http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php); Hilary Ballon has redesigned the flagship journal for architectural historians (JSAH) so as to take full advantage of the multimedia capacity of the internet;  Chris Kelty has published an important new book on the Free and Open Source Software movement, is part of the collective behind the excellent anthropology blog "Savage Minds" (http://savageminds.org/) and has recently joined with a number of other scholars to challenge the American Anthropological Association to embrace open access;  Greg Crane was part of the early move by classicists to embrace new media and continues to direct the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/);  Martha Nell Smith was the founding director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (http://www.mith.umd.edu/), and continues to produce innovative web-based scholarly editions (http://www.mith.umd.edu/mnsmith/);  David Jaffee has been a leader in the development of new media resources for the teaching of U.S. history.