Humanities in a Digital World

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Nov 19, 2009, 01:58 PM

What is HASTAC? 

What is the future of learning?

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: BEYOND COMPUTING

    The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be
     understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the
     humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as
     well as being engaged in processes of digital media production and
     practice (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive
     electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps
     most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’,
     it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science
     – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used
     increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching
     humanities texts.

'Can We Talk?' is a conference aimed at bringing together the worlds of social sciences and humanities research in a conversation about how the two can mutually benefit in improving our knowledge of race, inequality, and social difference. Co-sponsored by the Department of African & African American Studies and the Center for African & African American Research at Duke University.

Humanities Enjoy Strong Student Demand but Declining Conditions for Faculty

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Mar 01, 2010, 03:27 PM

New Data Available on College and University Humanities Departments

CAMBRIDGE, MA – The humanities continue to play a core role in higher education and student interest is strong, but to meet the demand, four-year colleges and universities are increasingly relying on a part-time, untenured workforce.

HASTAC@CHAT: The Bathysphere interactive art installation

Submitted by Adam Rogers on Feb 18, 2010, 12:11 AM

The Bathysphere, "an underwater opera and an interactive game: a musical narrative in which the audience triggers events," is installed as part of the CHAT festival at UNC this week.

Literally

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 25, 2010, 08:56 AM

Yesterday's blog has taken off and is getting lots of comment all over the blogosphere.  It was called "Why Is the Information Age Without the Humanities Like the Industrial Revolution Without the Steam Engine?"   This is one of those blogs that takes off and has wings of its own and I'm interested in how it is being interpreted.  It is loose and deliberatively provocative, but I am being literal  in the analogy--and also the opposite of literal in its provocation.  It is also a homage to Tim Berners-Lee's original conceptualization of the World Wide Web and is not intended as a commentary on all the Web's subsequent iterations.

 

Information Age Without Humanities = Industrial Revolution Without Steam Engine

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 24, 2010, 08:14 AM

Why is the Information Age Without the Humanities Like the Industrial Revolution Without the Steam Engine?   That would seem to be a creaky analogy.  It's not.  It's a provocation--and simply, literally true.   Here's why.

 

Medicine / Science Reading Group - Upcoming Events of Interest

Submitted by mkleehammer on Jan 11, 2010, 12:49 AM

Hi all.  Here are a couple upcoming events some of us might be interested in.

Medicine / Science Reading Group

Submitted by mkleehammer on Jan 10, 2010, 10:27 PM

Hello!  Along with Prof.