Digital humanities

But all is not lost for the liberal arts.

UCLA has a new Department of Digital Humanities.

The school says students will use digital tools to explore what it means to be human.

That's a big question.

On today's episode of the Black Studies Podcast, we have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Alex Gill.

Alex is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he teaches introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives.

Before joining Yale, Alex served for 10 years as digital scholarship librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research.

His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities, and technology design for different infrastructural and socioeconomic environments, and the ownership and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record.

He is currently Senior Editor of Archipelago's Journal, Editor of Internationalization of Digital Humanities Quarterly, Co-Organizer of the Caribbean Digital Annual Conference, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Over the past decade, he has been a prolific producer and contributing team member of many recognized digital humanities projects and scholarly software, including Torn Apart, Separados, In the Same Boats, and Wax.

His scholarly articles have appeared in several essay collections and referee journals around the world, including Genesis, the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and Contemporary.

Welcome to another episode of the Black Studies Podcast.

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Wir hatten wirklich spannende Trainings zu Rechtsfragen, zu High Performance Computing, zu Digital Humanities, eine großartige Keynote von Anna Lena Lamprecht aus Potsdam und dann eben noch wirklich viele und verschiedene Diskussionen und Workshops am Nachmittag.

Also das Programm war rappelvoll und auch die

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Und wir haben das auch noch an anderen Stellen verteilt, diverse Mailinglisten und so.

Genau, wir hatten auch Kontaktpunkte an den einzelnen BUA Einrichtungen eben, die das weitergegeben haben noch mal und in ihren Kreisen gestreut haben.

Digital Humanities Listen, genau, die Informatik hast du schon angesprochen.

Also wir haben uns wirklich bemüht, das so breit wie möglich zu bewerben und das dann eben auch zu berücksichtigen im Programm.

And so my first papers were about Weird Facebook, the meme page, Tumblr, places that I was on the internet.

And I would find these, at the time it was called Digital Humanities, a conference where I can present my research because I was just like a participant observer.

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And she's also the co-author of a new piece on adaptations in the Jane Austen journal Persuasions Online.

Dr. Mary O'Connell is lecturer in English in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork and is an expert in 19th century literature, romanticism, Victorian literature and crime fiction.

And she's the author of Barn and John Murray, a poet and his publisher and co-editor of readings on audience and textual materiality.

Dr. Myrna Cineda is a lecturer in English in the School of English Media and Creative Arts at the University of Galway and is a leading expert on 18th and 19th century literature, including Romantic and Victorian writing.

And the whole point of this session really is to give you a bit of an overview of a project called Voices.

And I'm so glad that we've heard some digital humanities this morning from Frances.

We'll obviously be picking up on some of the themes that Frances raised in her paper.

But Deirdre's in the room.