Category: Conferences
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Do You Teach DH? This Survey Is For You!
Brian Croxall and I are excited to announce the launch of a research study: “Who Teaches When We Teach Digital Humanities?” With this study, we hope to learn more about the training and preparation of those who teach digital humanities the for-credit and informal teaching that DH teachers do “I teach DH!” you say. “How can I…
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Posters at DH2019
I’ll be presenting two posters at DH2019: “Encoding the ‘Floating Gap’”: Linking Cultural Memory, Identity, and Complex Place” (with Katherine Faull, Bucknell University): In this poster the authors present a model for encoding what ethnographers term the “floating gap” when constructing an historical gazetteer of place names. This step is especially crucial as scholars make…
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Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes
This is the abstract for a paper I co-presented with Katie Faull at DH2018 in Mexico City on June 28, 2018. The slides and notes for the talk are deposited on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:19929/. Conference abstract: This paper will explore the problem of creating a gazetteer of colonized landscapes, specifically those of the mid-Atlantic in the…
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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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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…