Digital Humanities

Overview

Thursday, September 8, 10:20am-12:00am
Format: Introductory Lecture, Lightning Presentations and Moderated Discussion
Leads: Jeffrey Schnapp, Jesse Shapins, others
Participants: Victor Ban, Joseph Bergen, James Burns, Peter Galison, Kara Oehler, Kyle Parry, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Joana Pimenta, Julia Yezbick

This pillar session will address the current state of digital humanities, an umbrella term for new modes of scholarship that emphasize collaborative, trans-disciplinary, computationally-engaged research, teaching, and dissemination. Digital Humanities is less a unified field than an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and disseminated; digital tools, techniques, and media have expanded traditional concepts of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences. The session will address fundamental questions such as: How can traditional humanities skills be reshaped in multimedia terms? How and by whom will the contours of cultural and historical memory be defined in the digital era? How might practices of digital storytelling coincide or diverge from oral or print-based storytelling? What is the place of humanitas in a networked world?

Lightning Speakers

• James Burns
• Known Unknown (Kara Oehler)
• Julia Yezbick
• Robert Gerard Pietrusko
• Kyle Parry
• Society for Receipt Printer Reincarnation (Joseph Bergen)
• Joana Pimenta (scroll to "Augmented Harvard")
• Victor Ban
• Peter Galison

Recommended Readings

• Digital Humanities 2.0 Manifesto
• Digital Humanities 2.0: A Report on Knowledge

Relevant Models

• extraMUROS
• Sensate
• Zeega
• Media Archaeology of Place
• The Mixed-Reality City

Related Harvard Projects/Initiatives

• Critical Media Practice
• Ethnography Lab
• Film Study Center
• Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments
• Woodberry Poetry Room
• Mahindra Humanities Center
• Center for Geographic Analysis
• The Laboratory at Harvard

Other Projects

• Todd Presner :: Hypercities
• Chris Johanson :: Experiential Classics
• Timothy Lenoir :: Mouse Site
• Tara McPherson :: Vectors Journal
• Richard White and John Christensen :: The Spatial History Project
• Blast Theory
• Stanford Humanities Lab :: Life Squared
• Dan Edelstein :: Mapping the Republic of Letters
• Johanna Drucker :: Graphesis
• Marsha Kinder :: The Labyrinth Project
• Jerome McGann :: Making NINES
• Bruce Sterling :: Dead Media Project
• Diane Favro :: Digital Roman Forum

Other Centers

• Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA
• Center for History and New Media at George Mason
• Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design
• Design | Media | Arts at UCLA