Hi NUDHLers, I’m experimenting with Vade Mecum, a new blog on literatures, languages, and the technology of the book. I’ve just released a new post on the Renaissance pamphlet, and it is designed to resonate with many topics we discuss at NUDHL meetings. Have a look, & happy holidays!
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NUDHL (pronounced noodle) welcomes faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from Northwestern and beyond to participate in the lab.
We sponsor a monthly reading group/research workshop at the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Additionally, NUDHL supports projects that foster research, teaching, learning, public scholarship, civic engagement, and other topics relevant to the digital humanities.
If you are interested in joining our mailing list, attending events, or participating in conversations on the NUDHL blog, contact lab co-directors Dr. Michael J. Kramer or Dr. Jillana Enteen.
• Overview
• MEETING 1. Oct 5, 2012, 12-2pm: What are the Digital Humanities?
• MEETING 2. Nov 9, 12-2pm: Theorizing the Digital Humanities
• MEETING 3. Fri, Dec 7, 2012, 12-2pm: Research Presentation - Jillana Enteen, “Technologies of Transitioning in Thailand: Create-your-own-Surgery, One-Click SRS and other Opportunities Online for Surgery Tourism"
• SPECIAL SEMINAR. Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 12-2pm: Ben Pauley, ”Building New Tools for Digital Bibliography: Constructing a Defoe Attributions Database for the Defoe Society"
• MEETING 4. Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12-2pm: Critiquing the Digital Humanities
• MEETING 5. Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 12-2pm: Practicing the Digital Humanities
• MEETING 6. Fri, March 8, 2013, 12-2pm: Research Presentation: Michael J. Kramer, "Alan Lomax, Harry Smith, and the Proto-Digital Study of Folk Music"
• MEETING 7. Fri, April 5, 2013, 12-2pm: Evaluating the Digital Humanities
• MEETING 8. Fri, May 17, 2013, 12-2pm: HASTAC@NUDHL Scholars Workshop
• MEETING 9. Fri, June 7, 2013, 12-2pm: Conclusions, Future Directions of NUDHL
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2 comments
Jillana says:
Dec 20, 2012
Andrew,
Brave worlds, brave new world! Keep it up, and keep NUDHL linked in! I like this very much!
I hope you have a great break!
jillana
Michael Kramer says:
Dec 20, 2012
Hi Andrew –
Great post. As I was reading, I kept thinking that “pamphlet pandemonium” in all its possibilities for expanded democracy and all its troublesome confusions of authority sounded so much like recent debates about the Internet, and especially the “blogosphere.” Then, of course, you made this precise point:
“Although this dispute about the early modern pamphlet, its circulation, and the threats it posed to authority took place nearly four hundred years ago, we live today in an era characterized by reconfigurations of the same debate. Pamphleteering then, blogging now…”
I think this is such promising research, and how you use the digital as a critical tool in probing your sources, their contexts, and how you wish to communicate your discoveries is going to be so fun to watch develop. Just don’t let your mind make a hell of heaven (sorry couldn’t resist).
So here is a question if you find it productive. Clearly, we see some intriguing cross-historical similarities between the great era of pamphlets and now. What about the differences? Anything strike you as quite dissimilar between then and now? And *what would* Milton think of the Internet?!
PS I am going to add your blog to the permanent links from NUDHL. Keep the cross posts coming and we’ll talk more in the new year about plans for the future.
Happy holidays,
Michael