Considering the recent developments and initiatives seen at universities around the world, it seems evident that interdisciplinary collaboration will be defining the future of higher education. Digital Humanities perfectly fits this scheme with its interdisciplinary nature; digital projects are often collaborative and promote interdisciplinary partnerships. Collaborative projects cross disciplinary borders to connect seemingly disconnected disciplines, such as empirical sciences and humanities. However, interdisciplinary communication is not effortless since the parameters of such conversations are not well defined. In this session, participants will share challenges, ideas, and examples of successful as well as unsuccessful interdisciplinary digital projects.
Of related interest to this proposal is a panel that is taking place at MLA a few days later:
Developing and Sustaining Collaborative Research in the Humanities
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 304, JW Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Brian Rosenblum, Univ. of Kansas Libraries
Speakers: Sayan Bhattacharyya, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; Katharine Coles, Univ. of Utah; Patricia Fumerton, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Lauren Klein, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Miriah Meyer, Univ. of Utah; Muhammad Saad Shamim, Baylor Coll. of Medicine; Carl Stahmer, Univ. of California, Davis
P.S. The URL of the above MLA special session is:
apps.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=406&year=2016