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THE PAST’S DIGITAL PRESENCE:
DATABASE, ARCHIVE, AND KNOWLEDGE WORK IN THE HUMANITIES
A GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM AT YALE UNIVERSITY
FEBRUARY 19TH AND 20TH, 2010
| Location: | Connecticut, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2009-09-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-08-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
169955 |
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How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? We invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities. The graduate student panels will be moderated by a Yale faculty member or library curator with a panel respondent. The two-day conference will take place February 19th and 20th, 2010, at Yale University.
Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Guest Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Potential paper topics include:
- The Future of the History of the Book
- Public Humanities
- Determining Irrelevance in the Archive
- Defining the Key-Word
- The Material Object in Archival Research
- Local Knowledge, Global Access
- Digital Afterlives
- Foucault, Derrida, and the Archive
- Database Access Across the Profession
- Mapping and Map-Based Platforms
- Interactive Research
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Please contact Molly Farrell, Heather Klemann, Ryan Brasseaux, and Taylor Spence at pdp@yale.edu with any additional inquiries. For more information about conference events, please visit our forthcoming website: http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp (October).
Email: taylor.spence@yale.edu
Visit the website at http://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/pdp
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