{"id":8566,"date":"2019-12-18T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=articles&p=8566"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:51:30","slug":"lecture-by-julianne-nyhan-new-findings-and-new-questions-about-the-origins-of-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/articles\/lecture-by-julianne-nyhan-new-findings-and-new-questions-about-the-origins-of-digital-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by Julianne Nyhan “New findings and new questions about the origins of Digital Humanities”. Recording and interview."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nLecture “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.” by Dr. Julianne Nyhan, UCL (London), and exclusive interview for the C\u00b2DH\u2019s \u2018New Horizons\u2019 lecture series.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Fr Roberto Busa S.J. is considered by many as being (one of) the founding fathers of the Digital Humanities. Thus, he has often been presented as a lone scholar whose work marked a sharp break with the past. Yet Busa worked with a team of up to 65 people. In recent years, I\u2019ve extensively researched the female keypunch operators who made up a significant portion of Busa\u2019s team, and who also made a significant contribution to the day to day running of the Index Thomisticus project. In this lecture Julianne Nyhan outlines her findings about the lived experiences and contributions of the Index Thomisticus\u2019 female keypunch operators and reflects on what their omission from many accounts of the history of digital humanities says about the ways knowledge was defined at the dawn of digital humanities and who was deemed eligible to make that knowledge. She also points to some new research questions that she has recently identified, about the origins of Busa\u2019s interest in statistical approaches to language and the referencing system that was developed for the Index Thomisticus. She will draw these new findings and new questions together by noting the emphasis in many histories of digital humanities on identifying the \u2018new\u2019, to the omission of the \u2018old\u2019, and argue that there is much to be gained from a better interfolding of such concerns in scholarship about the history of digital humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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