Diane K. Jakacki

Call for Papers – RSA: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Sessions

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Renaissance Studies and New Technologies (RSA 2014, 27-29 March; New York, NY)

Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2014 meeting in New York, we will offer panels on recent research (with 20-minute papers, followed by questions) and workshops on emerging ideas and methodologies (with 10-minute introductions, followed by hands-on demonstrations). Your proposal should include a title, a 150-word abstract, and a one-paragraph CV. [Read more…] about Call for Papers – RSA: Renaissance Studies and New Technologies Sessions

Identifying as a /*Digital*/ Humanist

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que?
So I’ve been thinking …
In the past few weeks I’ve found myself thinking about how I identify with the Digital Humanities and as a Digital Humanist. It’s possible that I’m hyperaware of issues relating to DH right now as I apply for jobs that are specifically or tangentially associated with Digital Studies, but I’ve been a Digital Humanist since long before I ever heard the term. Somewhere on Dropbox is my 2003 application to the UToronto MA program in which I waxed poetic about a digital scriptorium. In the years since I’ve got used to explaining and defending methodologies and perspectives, but recently I’ve been surprised by how many people still find us alien and a little bit threatening. In fact, it really hadn’t occurred to me that there is an “us.”

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Checking back in

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Have been flying below the radar lately. Have drafted several posts but life kept getting in the way of properly editing them. I have spent some time tweaking the site’s theme (still not happy with it, but I’ve become quite the theme hoarder).

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DHSI gets some Profhacker love

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Gratifying to see Natalie Houston’s Profhacker article on her experience at DHSI, “Report from DHSI 2012” this morning. My favorite part articulates the constructive frustration expressed by so many speakers at the colloquium, “Every researcher, no matter what the field, comes up against things that don’t work, or hypotheses that don’t turn out to be accurate, or archives that don’t hold the information you hoped they would. But there hasn’t always been space within humanities discourse for exploring those obstacles. DHSI created a supportive environment for productively learning from what doesn’t work as well as from what does.”

And yes, for all of the DHSI goodness, I agree with Natalie that it is also good to return home.