Digital tools and praxis have reshaped the humanities. For decades, access to new data has challenged established methods, canons, and scope, and new digital tools have reconfigured cultural and historical interpretation. Yet some critics still look upon the “digital humanities” with skepticism.
In this series of conversations, leading DH scholars speak about how the digital reorganization of scholarship has triggered new research questions and outcomes. Centering four main practices—editing, archiving, mapping, databasing—these conversations highlight how digital projects begin, how their conclusions intersect with current critical discourses, and how their methods transform what it means to work in the humanities.
EDITING
March 7, 12:30–1:30pm
Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington)
Marlene Daut (University of Virginia)
Respondent: Alex Gil (Columbia University)
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ARCHIVING
March 14, 4:30–5:30pm
Christina Boyles (Michigan State University)
Norah Karrouche (Free University of Amsterdam)
Respondent: Michael Faciejew (Yale)
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MAPPING
April 4, 4:30–5:30pm
Ángel David Nieves (Northeastern)
Roopika Risam (Salem State)
Respondent: Laura Wexler (Yale)
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DATABASING
April 11, 12:30–1:30pm
Andie Silva (CUNY)
Maxim Romanov (University of Hamburg)
Respondent: Jesús Velasco (Yale)
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All events on Zoom. Registration required.
Sponsored by DH @ Yale, Mellon Sawyer Seminar “The Order of Multitudes: Atlas, Encyclopedia, Museum,” Yale DHLab, and Whitney Humanities Center