In reading the session proposals over the past week, and following the twitter/blog/conference conversations of the past year, it strikes me at the extent to which DH finds itself simultaneously outside and inside the hierarchies and institutional cultures of the academy. The pressing need for advocacy, the exclusionary hierarchy that #alt-acs struggle against, questions of …
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DH at the intersection of research, teaching, and advocacy
Reading through the proposals, I realize that my interests in DH intersect three related areas: research, teaching, and advocacy. Issues of advocacy and research have been raised here (for instance, Katy Meyers, jbecker) in terms of how to deal with faculty who are suspicious of–or outright hostile to–colleagues working in the digital humanities. As the …
#alt-ac with a research agenda: what that means, what we want, how to get it
As Kimon pointed out, a lot of us DH-ers are “alternate academics”: we’re trained as academics and are still in the orbit of the academy, but we’re not in conventional tenure-track roles. Our hires were accompanied by fanfare about hybridity and new models of scholarship — and we care passionately about our jobs and our new …
DH and undergraduate research
Universities and liberal arts colleges seem to be increasingly interested in fostering the undergraduate research experience. For disciplines in the humanities, this has often posed a problem: if the sciences have built into their workflows researchers with different levels of expertise and if they conceive of research projects as providing, in part, training for higher …
Data Recovery Shops and Retro-Computing Labs
Here’s a session idea that complements the one proposed by Tim Carmody on the “hardware turn,” with maybe more of a digital preservation and access slant. It’s inspired in part by talks with my colleague Bruce Ambacher and in part by Doug Reside and Matt Kirschenbaum’s ongoing efforts at MITH to collect obsolete hardware, cables, …
Proposal: Hardware for Humanists
I want to open up a discussion and maybe put together a working group focused on what I want to pre-emptively call “the hardware turn” in digital humanities. (I say, let’s start calling it that, and we can just will the thing into existence after the fact. If it doesn’t exist already.) What’s the hardware …
Proposal: #alt-ac Support Group
Despite the current state of unrest and uncertainty surrounding tenure and promotion, there still remains much to be desired about traditional faculty appointments and the status and perks that they provide: more regular opportunities to teach, travel and research funds, writing sabbaticals, improved benefits, etc. Nevertheless, many of us attending THATCamp are in positions at our …
Hacking Grad School
For this session I want to discuss to two main points: how to hack grad school to make it easier through tech, and how to deal with the anti-tech institution. The first is how we grad students can use technology to make our lives easier such as using an SVN to help with writing a …
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