Humanities Informatics Lab Final Showcase: Network-Corpus

Emergent/cy Digital Humanities Pedagogy, A Roundtable

This event will take place over Zoom. The meeting link will be circulated via email to registered participants before it begins.

Emergent/cy Digital Humanities Pedagogy, A Roundtable, is the final event of the Network/Corpus working group, led by Brad Pasanek and Rennie Mapp. This event is one of the online panels held in September, 2020, to showcase and conclude the Humanities Informatics Lab hosted by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture at UVA. The activities of Network/Corpus, the group most nearly aligned with the field known today as digital humanities (DH), have ranged from workshops on social networks to reading-group discussions on digital textual studies, to visiting lectures on search functions and image recognition in archives, as well as interactive exhibits of the Puzzle Poetry group (with their 3D printed pieces of text). Our final roundtable chose to emphasize pedagogy.

Presenters will briefly speak on courses and curricula relating to big data or DH methods in literature and the arts, crises in humanities higher education, opportunities for cultural critique with and of technology, and other aspects of our collaborative projects. A moderator and respondent will initiate discussion of such matters as emerging conditions of online pedagogy--how is DH pedagogy different from teaching with technology?; the impact of machine learning on studies of texts, persons, and cultures; anti-racist or decolonizing commitments; the many media of writing lives and textual scholarship; and other timely matters. Participants are encouraged but not required to read in advance “The Futures of Digital Humanities Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis,” Brandon Walsh’s short essay (under review), and to explore DH @ UVA and the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities (open to all graduate students enrolled at the University of Virginia) at http://dh.virginia.edu.

Panel:

Rennie Mapp, Project Manager for Strategic DH Initiatives and Co-Leader of the Network-Corpus Research Group: “’Information is Virtual’: The Informatics of Network/Corpus Events”

Brandon Walsh, Head of Student Programs at UVA’s Scholars’ Lab: “Intention and Care: Values, Pedagogy, and DH Community”

Brad Pasanek, Mayo NEH Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Leader of the Network-Corpus Research Group: “NEH Professorship and Puzzle Poetry”

Eleanore Neumann, Doctoral Candidate in Art and Architectural History: “Practicing Decolonial DH Inside and Outside the Classroom”

Alison Booth, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Humanities Informatics Lab: “When Data and Cultural Heritage Are Daily News: Online DH Teaching”

Phil Trella, Associate Vice Provost and Director of the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, Moderator

Yitna Firdyiwek, Instructional Designer, Learning Design Technology, Arts & Sciences, Respondent