MONDAY, JUNE 5
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
10:00-11:00 Welcoming Remarks & Introductions
11:00-11:15 Intro to USHMM resources: University Programs
11:15-11:45 Seminar Agenda and Rationale
11:45-12:00 Group Photo
12:00-1:30 Lunch with CAHS staff and research fellows (Classroom A)
1:30-3:00 [Lecture + Discussion] What are the Digital Humanities (DH) and Why Should We Care?
Discussion Readings: Posner; Burdick, Drucker, Lunenfeld, Presner and Schnapp
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 [Group Activity] What does DH Look Like? Analyzing Projects
Readings:
- Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).
- 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