All Seminar readings are listed below. The required texts are available for purchase on Amazon (or at other book sellers). The remaining texts are linked through this site.

Required Texts:

• Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. (Amazon) [Day 1, 2]
• Knowles, Anne Kelly, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano (eds.). Geographies of the Holocaust. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. (Amazon) [Day 8]
• Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. (Amazon) [ Day 5]

Day 1

• Miriam Posner, “What’s Next: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities,” Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016), ed. Mathew K. Gold and Lauren Klein
• Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, “Chapter One: From Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012) 3 – 26.
• Read one of the below “How Did They Make that?” Features.
  Consider the methodology of analysis for our conversation about digital projects
  • “Sustainable & Accessible Interactive Documentary Storytelling Without Heavy Coding: The Story of the Stuff”: How we Made it by How we made it by Ashley Maynor + Q and A
  • How Did They Make That: Adams Timeline – How we made it by Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Sara Sikes + Q and A
  • Creating a Public History Website on a Shoestring Budget with Limited Tech Literacy: The Starkville Civil Rights Project – How we made it by Nickoal Eichmann Kalwara, Hillary A. H. Richardson, Judith Ridner + Q and A
  • Miriam Posner, “How did they Make that?” Blog Post, August 29, 2013
  • Miriam Posner, “How did they Make that?” Video, April 17, 2014

Day 2

• Omer Bartov, “Genocide and the Holocaust: Arguments over History and Politics,” in Hilary Earl and Karl A. Schleunes, eds., Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World, Lessons and Legacies XI (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2014), 5-28.

Day 3

• David Cesarani, “Challenging the ‘Myth of Silence’: Postwar responses to the destruction of European Jewry,” in David Cesarani and Eric J. Sundquist, After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence, (London: Routledge, 2012) 15 – 38.
• Miriam Bratu Hansen, “’Schindler’s List’ is not ‘Shoah’: The Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory,” Critical Inquiry 22, no. 2 (Winter 1996), 292-312.
• Noah Shenker, “Introduction,” Reframing Holocaust Testimony (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 1 – 18.
• Stephen Robertson, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History” Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016), ed. Mathew K. Gold and Lauren Klein.

Day 4

• Amy E. Earhart, “Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon,” in Matthew K. Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 309-318.
• Samuel D. Kassow, Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), Selections.
• Tara McPherson, “Introduction: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities.” Cinema Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 2009, pp. 119–123.
• Holocaust and Social Media in the News:
  • Jason Francisco, “The Selfie and the Monument: Shahak Shapira’s Yolocaust” LA Review of Books, Feb 13, 2017
  • Dewey, Caitlin. 2014. “The Other Side of the Infamous Auschwitz Selfie,” The Washington Post, July 22, 2014.
  • “Auschwitz Selfie Girl Defends Actions,” USA Today, July 23, 2014
  • “Danny Green, NBA Player, Apologizes For Holocaust Selfie,” Huffington Post, October 8, 2014
  • Lilit Marcus, “#Holocaust selfies are inevitable if you turn solemn sites into tourist traps,” The Guardian, October 9, 2014
  • “Gays, Grinder, the Holocaust Memorial, and Art: An Interview with Marc Adelman,” Hyperallergic, Dec 21, 2012

Day 6

• Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (London: Verso, 2013).
• Todd Presner, “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Readings of the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive,” History Unlimited: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture, eds. Claudio Fogu, Wulf Kansteiner, and Todd Presner (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015, 175 – 202). (PDF: Presner, 175-202)

Day 7

• Stephen Ramsey, “Databases,” A Companion to Digital Humanities, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
• Anne J. Gilliland, “Setting the Stage,” in Murtha Baca, ed., Introduction to Metadata, 3^rd Edition (Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2016)
• “Professional Standards for Museum Educators,” Patterns in Practice(PDF: ProfessionalStandardsforMuseumEducators)
• Lisa A. Reilly, “Change over Time: Neatline and the Study of Architectural History,” Artl@s Bulletin 4, no. 1 (2015): Article 2.

Additional Readings for Reference:

• Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes, “Introduction,” in Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust (The Modern Language Association of America, 2004), 1-33.
• Nishant Shah, “The Selfie and the Self, Part 1″; “The Selfish Selfie and Simulation, Part 2“; “The Disappearing Selfie, Part 3“, DML Central
• Lev Manovich, selfiecity