Duke University
How did literary study engage quantitative methods and computational tools and ideas before 1990 or so? How might attention to this past offer new understandings of such work today?
521 Game Studies, Writing Studies, and Digital Humanities
Saturday, 9 January 2021
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
Presider: Victoria Szabo, Duke U
Digital Humanities has been variously defined as an emerging field, a transdisciplinary set of methods, a neoliberal takeover of the arts and humanities, and an incidental supplement to disciplinary knowledge. It has been leveraged to broaden STEM initiatives, expanded to embrace computational approaches to writing, media, and cultural studies, positioned to reinvent libraries, and academic publishing, and broadened to include transformations of pedagogical practice, in person and online.In 2009, another time of global crisis, DH was labeled “the next big thing” as it continued to grow through new hires, programs, publications, and projects when most other fields in the humanities did not. Just over a decade later—as the world, universities, and cultural institutions face social and financial crises, how does a multifarious DH respond? What lessons, as a field that is in constant reinvention and expansion, can be gleaned from the recent history of DH. Can another moment of crisis coalesce a core in the field, or hasten us towards a post-DH landscape?
This session aims to be a town hall meeting. With this, the Forum seeks to address the role of, and lessons from, the field which in 2008-2009 became associated to administrative responses to the financial crisis.
We anticipate focusing on issues of social justice, labor, and critical debate during the discussion, but are open to additional topics and ideas. Part of our goal is to set the agenda for the TC DH Forum program for 2022 and beyond.
Victoria E. Szabo (ves4@duke.edu), Duke U – @vszabo
Élika Ortega (elika.ortega@colorado.edu). U of Colorado, Boulder – @elikaortega
Description: Panelists examine what aspects of digital humanities offer a critical lens for modern languages work and what modern languages frameworks offer distinctive outlooks for the future of digital humanities.
Related Material: For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/
Élika Ortega, U of Colorado, Boulder
Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Dartmouth C
Description: Participants discuss the digital in scholarly publishing. Depending on one’s role as scholar, editor, publisher, librarian, or reader, the digital might refer to open access, open (or closed) peer review, the publication of digital media objects-as-scholarship and digital humanities projects, and the role of tenure and promotion within this rapidly changing landscape. Speakers represent publishers who have broken new ground in these areas.
Related Material: For related material, visit http://celj.org after 8 Jan.
Cheryl E. Ball, Wayne State U
Description: First of two sessions focused on the critical relationship between digital humanities and computational media studies.
Victoria E. Szabo, Duke U
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Description: Second of two sessions focused on the critical relationship between digital humanities and computational media studies.
Victoria E. Szabo, Duke U
Related Material: Session Details