Austin-area folks can join the UT-based Digital Humanities Discussion List to stay connected to (and help build!) the Central Texas DH community. Monthly happy hours are promoted via this list, and subscribers are encouraged to post updates, events, inquiries, grant announcements, calls for papers, opportunities for collaboration, etc. Texans (and friendly neighbors) are invited to create a […]

As everyone who has participated in a THATCamp knows, successful unconferences depend upon the interest, collaboration, and generosity of numerous individuals and institutions. We feel especially fortunate to have received a lot of support from local and regional sources in both the public and private spheres: THATCamp Digital Pedagogy ATX 2016 is hosted by the University […]

Meta-scholarship in Digital Humanities has largely focused on defining the field and what counts as a DH program, project, or tool. However, spurred in part by Alan Liu’s 2011 MLA presentation and 2012 article, “Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?” recent studies of the field have sought to identify the qualities of digital […]

New to the field? Recent graduate? Current student? Let’s connect! I’m proposing a session where newbies (like myself) talk about what’s working for them, what’s not working for them, and how we’re “making it” as budding digital humanitarians through small group discussion.

Despite its claims toward openness and community-building, the Digital Humanities is still a largely expensive and often exclusionary practice. Projects both large and small depend on grants and costly tools, and many of those projects still focus on canonic, white (often male) figures. As such, the idea of access in digital pedagogy is increasingly material […]

For a number of years now, labor-intensive DH projects–especially those involving text editing and transcription, data tagging and markup, image and text analysis, metadata and data creation, etc.–have incorporated crowd sourcing tools and methods into their workflows. In this session, we propose that participants investigate, discuss, demonstrate, or design methods for integrating this DH building […]

What affordances does the network model provide pedagogy? Questions to be examined could include (but not be limited to):   What is the difference between a network and a concept map? Under what situations is a network representation more appropriate or useful than a concept map? What affordances are provided pedagogically when student work in […]

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, […]