Author: Diane Jakacki
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Christine Seidel
2. The Widow Christine Eleonore Seidel 2. The Widow Christine Eleonore Seidel. (her Maiden Name was Peistel) She wrote of herself: I am born the 28th of May 1707 at Litowiz in Misonie. Myn Vater has been Carl Fridric Peisteland my Mother Eleonore born of Bradenstein, of the generation Zoeshen by Merseburg. We have been…
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CFP for MLA 2019: What Do We Teach When We Teach DH?
What Do We Teach When We Teach DH? (A special session on digital humanities pedagogy at MLA 2019) Over the last decade as digital humanities research has flourished, the MLA convention—as well as other venues—has witnessed increasingly vigorous discussions about teaching digital humanities. We now find ourselves in a discipline that is not so new…
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REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures at MLA 2017
This is the transcript of a paper I gave as part of the “Digital Scholarship in Action: Research” panel at CSRS (Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies) in Philadelphia on January 6, 2017. The attendant PowerPoint is stored and indexed on the MLA Commons Open Repository Exchange, and is available here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:14373/ “REED London: Humanistic Roots, Humanistic Futures” In…
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Trying to Move the Needle: Expanding the DH Reviewer Pool
Today it was #Brexit. Two days ago it was #nobillnobreak. Two weeks ago it was #Orlando. Friends and colleagues in Texas are attending workshops on how to deal with campus carry. Friends and colleagues in the U.K. and Europe are wondering about … everything. I don’t mean to conflate the profound and disturbing events and trends that have…
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How we Teach? Digital Humanities Pedagogy in an Imperfect World
I was honoured to give this keynote at the CSDH/SCHN conference at Congress in Calgary on Wednesday. I would like to start by thanking Susan Brown, Jon Bath, Michael Ullyot, and CSDH for inviting me to speak here. I’m sorry Susan isn’t here because I wanted her to hear this, too, so would someone tweet…