The Digital Humanities: Some Contexts, Concepts and Initiatives

This talk, by one of Canada's leading authorities in the field, will lay out some key contexts and concepts in the "digital humanities," focusing on themes such as social knowledge creation, consensus-driven pedagogical communities and collaborative research partnership. Examples will be drawn from the speaker’s experience as director of several digital humanities interventions into research, scholarship, and teaching, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Major Collaborative Research Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and a project in “social” editing. Ultimately, the talk urges a closer examination of what lies at the intersection of computing and the humanities as a necessary step in the humanities’ digital self-determination.

Co-presented by Green College, The Early Modern Conversions Project (McGill University) and the Cultural Evolution of Religion Consortium (UBC)