schedule

Course Schedule (subject to change)

**Readings marked(PDF) can be found in our course group**

8/26 - Introductions

Introductions to each other, to the course syllabus, site, and group

9/2 - Approaching the Digital Humanities

Readings

  • Gold, Matthew K. 2012.The Digital Humanities Moment In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Klein, Lauren F., and Matthew K. Gold. 2016. "Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field" InDebates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Gold, Matthew K., and Lauren F. Klein. 2019. "A DH That Matters" InDebates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Josephs, Kelly Baker, and Roopika Risam. In press. “The Digital Black Atlantic.” (draft) (PDF)
  • Spiro, Lisa. 2012."'This Is Why We Fight': Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities" In Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Matthew K. Gold. University of Minnesota Press.

Sites to explore

Assignment -- blog post (choose one of two prompts):

  • To what extent do these sites/projects reflect issues discussed in our readings?
  • Or, If you were to center an understanding about what DH is around one of these projects/sites, how would DH be defined (or redefined)?

9/9 - Epistemologies of DH

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9/16 - [no class]

9/23 - Mapping

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9/30 - Data and Visualization

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10/7 - History and the Archive

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Assignment: PRAXIS Mapping assignment due

10/14 - Design / Infrastructure

Readings

  • Nowviskie, Bethany. 2019. “Capacity Through Care.” InDebates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Star, Susan Leigh. 1999. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.”American Behavioral Scientist 43 (3): 377–91. (PDF)
  • Posner, Miriam. 2018. “See No Evil.”Logic Magazine, no. 4 (April).
  • Jackson, Steven J. 2014. “Rethinking Repair.” InMedia Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, 221–40. The MIT Press.
  • Gil, Alex. 2016. “Interview with Ernesto Oroza.” InDebates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Greenspan, Brian. 2019. “The Scandal of Digital Humanities.” InDebates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. University of Minnesota Press.

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10/21 - Open Access Publishing / Minimal Computing / Digital Scholarship

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Assignment: PRAXIS Visualization assignment due

10/28 - Text

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11/4 - Pedagogy

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11/11 - Special Topic: Digital Sound Studies

Readings:

  • “Introduction,”Digital Sound Studies. Eds. Lingold, Miller, and Tretien (Duke UP, 2018) [pdf]
  • Tanya Clement, “Word. Spoken.” inDigital Sound Studies. [pdf]
  • Optional: Matthew Rubery, fromThe Untold History of the Talking Book (Harvard UP, 2016) [pdf]

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Assignment: PRAXIS text mining assignment due

11/18 - Grant Writing Workshop

Assignment: FINAL PROPOSALS DUE Monday 11/22

see Final Project page for guidelines

11/25 - No class

12/2 - Student Presentations

12/9 - Student Presentations

12/16 - Final Projects due