Mellon Seminar 2008-09: What Is(n't) Digital Humanities?
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2-5pm, Meeting Rooms and Dates specified below.
Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitioners from various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.
This year’s seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA). The monthly seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and the general public. Participants outside of UCLA can also join us at Entropia, on the Digital Library Federation island, in Second Life. Graduate students may take the seminar for 2 units of course credit perquarter (COMP LIT 597; the class ID is: 556944221), but enrollment is not required for participation. Individual meetings of the seminar will be announced on this page, via the UCLA Digital Humanities Facebook Group, and in Second Life.
Schedule:
- October 8th, 2008: Introductory Session. Presenters: Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp
- November 5th: Visualization. Presenters: Diane Favro and Chris Johanson
- December 1st: Software Studies. Presenter: Lev Manovich
- January 5th, 2009: Post-Print. Presenter: Johanna Drucker
- February 2nd: Digital Scholarship and New Media Publication. Tara McPherson
- March 9th: Border Crossings: Mobility, Immobility, and Trans-media Storytelling Presenters: Scott Ruston, Ricardo Dominguez, and Amy Sara Carroll
- April 6th: Info-Triage and Sticky Media:Intersections of Design Theory & the Digital Humanities. Presenter: Peter Lunenfeld
- May 4th: Lynn Hershmann, Henrik Bennetsen, and Jeffrey Schnapp
- June 1st: Keynote/Symposium. Presenter: N. Katherine Hayles
