Developing the Digital Humanities Canon

Submitted by Anne Cong-Huyen on Sep 17, 2009, 08:45 PM

How do we develop the ever-changing "canon" of Digital Humanities? What are the must-reads for people entering this field or exploring different areas within it?

Twitter at MLA II: Panel notes

Submitted by John Jones on Jan 05, 2009, 07:30 PM
One drawback of any academic conference is the constant feeling that you are missing something. Typically, multiple panels are scheduled at the same time, and it can be difficult to know what knowledge is being produced and exchanged in sessions you are unable to attend. Last week's MLA conference, where I was on a panel on microblogging with Brian Croxall, Matt Gold, and David Parry, was no exception. Because of the quality of the discussion session following our presentations, however, we wanted to take a step toward rectifying this situation. We decided that we would do our best to provide the details of our talks and discussion--as well as the subsequent blogged conversations that have arisen out of the panel--for those who weren't there. Since the event was initiated and then organized using different social and collaborative media (Twitter, Skype, Pageflakes, etc.), we created a Google Doc of our notes and the following conversation. If you were able to attend the panel and would like to edit and update the document to cover something that we missed, please email the panel chair, Brian Croxall at b.croxall [at] gmail [dot] com, and he will be glad to give you editing privileges on the Google Doc on which this post is based. Otherwise, please feel free to continue the discussion in the comments section below. What follows is our best attempt at a recreation of the panel based on our recollection and notes. Update: Cathy Davidson blogged about the panel on HASTAC a few days ago. Here's a link to her post.

Project on the Periphery of Fiction and Film

Submitted by framingmedia on Jan 22, 2008, 03:29 PM
Hi, this is our first blog entry on HASTAC's impressive website. We are happy to share some information with you about our upcoming project on framing media at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Grace Paley, Forever

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 31, 2007, 03:59 PM
Writer and activist Grace Paley died this week at the age of 84. I had the privilege to meet her a few times over the years, which is to say I was in a room with her, awestruck by such indomitable energy and passion. May she live forever!

The Page 99 Test

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 01, 2007, 03:28 PM
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford