A C²DH Lecture Series
As a result of the so-called digital turn the humanities are currently in a process of rapid transformation, with consequences that reach far beyond the confines of academia. This lecture series explores how the digital turn is changing research, teaching and dissemination in the humanities. At the same time, the series will historicise and contextualise this process. Amid far-going claims of shifting research paradigms and a possible scientification of humanities research it is more urgent than ever to cast a critical eye on the continuities as well as discontinuities that new technologies bring, in order to avoid techno-scientific essentialism. How exactly are the humanities being transformed as a result of the digital turn? To what extent can we speak of hybridity as the new normal; a situation where most humanists combine traditional/analogue and new/digital research practices?
The programme has been developed to address three interconnected issues relating to the digital turn in the humanities:
- Transformations : How has the digital turn transformed the humanities in recent years? What affordances has it brought?
- Practices : Case studies: how are humanities research practices changing as a result of the digital turn?
- Genealogies : What is the ‘pre-history’ of digital humanities? How did we arrive here?
Lectures and interviews 2019-2021
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Big Data, Little Data, or No Data? Scholarship, Stewardship, and Humanities Research
Prof. Dr. Christine L. Borgman (8 April 2021)
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Scholars as Bricoleurs: The Plurality of Digital Humanities
Dr. Smiljana Antonijević (4 March 2021)
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New findings and new questions about the origins of Digital Humanities: on the state of the art of histories of the Index Thomisticus project of Fr Roberto Busa S.J.
Dr. Julianne Nyhan (18 December 2019)
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Signals and Noise: Extracting Patterns of Cultural Expressions from Digitized Sources
Dr Melvin Wevers (27 November 20219)
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A New Humanism’: Expo ’58, Robert Busa, and the First Humanities Computer Center
Prof. Dr Steven E. Jones (6 November 2019)
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Reflections on the past, present and future of digital archives
Prof. Dr Jane Winters (18 September 2018)
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The Spatial Humanities, Deep Mapping, and the Future of History
Prof. Dr David Bodenhamer (26 June 2019)
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Beyond Close and Distant Reading: Strategies for the radical contextualization of historical text
Prof. Dr Tim Hitchcock (29 May 2019)
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Digital Cultural Heritage: the case of the Rijksmuseum’s past, present and future
Saskia Scheltjens (25 April 2019)
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Unframing Infrastructure: The Story of Research Infrastructure in and through the Humanities
Prof. Dr. Patrik Svensson (6 March 2019)
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Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities
Prof. Dr Andrew Prescott (30 January 2019)
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