Notes on NUDHL #8: Defining DH @ NU
A great big thanks to Emily, Amanda, Andrew, Kevin, Beth, and all the other HASTAC@NUDHL Scholars for organizing a productive meeting! A few “takeaways”: We need to move from talking just about graduate education and DH in an all-purpose way to (1) the different stages of graduate education (1st year vs midpoint vs. home stretch)...
DH (& Other) Resources a the Library
In lieu of making slides, I thought a blog post outlining what I’ll be discussing informally at today’s NUDHL meeting might be a better resource for everyone. I would like to briefly discuss some of the resources available to faculty and graduate students, most of which can be filed under a very loosely defined digital...
THIS FRIDAY: NUDHL #8 – “Defining DH @ NU”
THIS WEEK’S QUESTIONS: What do we recognize to be the state of affairs of DH in practice at Northwestern? What kinds of digital work are faculty and graduate students taking on right now? How can we activate useful and responsible DH practice in the classroom setting? What technologies and resources are available through the Library,...
DH: A Historical “Refuge” From Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality/Disability?
Great conversation going on over at Postcolonial Digital Humanities: OPEN THREAD: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A HISTORICAL “REFUGE” FROM RACE/CLASS/GENDER/SEXUALITY/DISABILITY?, http://dhpoco.org/2013/05/10/open-thread-the-digital-humanities-as-a-historical-refuge-from-raceclassgendersexualitydisability/.
Digital Dictionaries: Russian Visual & NUDe @ MMLC, Friday 5/17, 4pm
The MMLC is gearing up for another World.Wine.Web. event! Stop by next Friday, May 17th, at 4:00pm in Kresge 1-375 for the last high-tech happy hour of the year! Digital Dictionaries: Russian Visual & NUDe The digital world opens a host of possibilities for teaching, but also for our students to negotiate meaning and learning. With...
Design and the Digital Humanities CFP
Co-organized by our own mighty NUDHL contributor Josh Honn! Topic: Design and the Digital Humanities With this year’s M/MLA topic of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design. Digital humanities (DH) is often equated with tool-oriented, procedural tasks like text analysis and...
Digitizing Folk Music History 3.0: The Syllabus
X-post from my Issues in Digital History blog: http://www.michaeljkramer.net/issuesindigitalhistory/blog/?p=1230. — Today I am turning away from the roiling waters of “What is DH?/What is not DH?/DH is evil!/DH is great!/DH is managerial neoliberalism wolf in flexible team member sheep’s wool (boo!)/DH is nice actually-existing socialism (hooray!)/etc.” (see here and here for starters) to a few posts on my...
Call for Responses: Teaching with Technology
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/content/cfr-teaching-technology The MediaCommons Front Page Collective is looking for responses to the survey question: What does the use of digital teaching tools look like in the classroom? Several educational institutions (NCTE<http://www.ncte.org/cee/positions/beliefsontechnology> for example) have addressed teaching with technology, including both the necessity for it and the need for using technology within sound pedagogy. Teaching with...
artist-built tools and slippery standards: a conversation with jon.satrom
artist-built tools and slippery standards: a conversation with jon.satrom May 19, Noon @ HCL 1401 W. Wabansia Free RSVP here HCL’s new monthly Cultural Conversation seriesinvites you to meet some of Chicago’s most innovative and inspirational artists and cultural producers as they share the intimate details of their projects, passions and inspirations. Join us for...
Digital Sensations: Reflections on Renaissance and Digital-Age Text-Use
In March I had the pleasure of presenting a paper at the Society for Textual Scholarship’s annual conference, held this year at Loyola University in Chicago. Along with fellow Northwestern graduate students Seth Swanner and Simon Nyi, I organized a panel focused on textual editing and the relationship between material textuality and embodiment in early...
WGBH Media Library and Archives
From: Allison Pekel <allison_pekel@wgbh.org> Date: Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:04 PM I am working with a project that I thought might be of interest to the American History Community. I work for WGBH, Boston in the Media Library and Archive and the Archive has been funded by the Mellon Foundation to work with academic...
Damon Horowitz, Google “In-House Philosopher” Speaks @ NU
NU News Press Release: Damon Horowitz to deliver Contemporary Thought Speakers Lecture April 30 April 29, 2013 | by Wendy Leopold EVANSTON, Ill. – Damon Horowitz, director of engineering and “in-house philosopher” at Google, will speak at Northwestern University Tuesday, April 30, as part of the University’s Contemporary Thought Speaker Series. Horowitz, whose work explores...
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