globaloutlookdh-l February 2013

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Around DH -- Links
by Alex Gil 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

You can help contribute to the #arounddh project by contributing to our "global list." This is the document that will be used to select the final 80. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmgLcm5jfVhSdGlPNm1WQ0hRYjFTU1… Remember to add your name to the "Suggested by" column! Let's go Around DH! A.

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Around DH in 80 Days
by Alex Gil 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Hello all, [Versión en español viene de camino] It is my pleasure to introduce to you one of our first pilot projects at GO::DH, Around DH in 80 Days! AroundDH hopes to be a fun way to introduce the work of colleagues around the world to those who are just starting out. Everyday for 80 days we will visit a group or projects across the globe. An editorial board will select a total of 80 groups or projects, one for each day. Groups in the list will be approached to describe themselves and highlight their work in 200 words or less. We will do our best to bring attention to digital scholarship outside of Canada, Europe, the US and Japan. In that sense, we are departing from a broad and inclusive vision of DH. Besides the audience of new comers, the global scope of the tour should also attract some of the more seasoned DH’ers. The greatest challenge of the editorial board is to balance the geographical margins with the greatest-hits of the northern mainstream. The greatest hope of the project is to paint enough of a broad picture of digital humanities to redefine it in the process. Thus, AroundDH can be read not only as a tour of the globe, but also as a dance around the periphery of DH. The project began as an email experiment. One email was sent daily from my outbox to all the librarians in the H&H division at Columbia with the subject “The DH Daily.” Everyday, our librarians, who are in the middle of a 2-year professional development program to become the consultation arm of our Digital Humanities Center at Columbia, would visit a different DH center or project. Others outside of Columbia heard about the experiment and wanted to be included in the email list. The appeal was the small dosages. Like the librarians, the rise of DH across the land has brought crowds of DH-curious academic professionals and students to our doors asking where do I begin?’ At the same time that the emails were going out, I was slowly but surely becoming part of the conversations around Global Outlook DH. There we were trying to discover as much as we could about the world outside the fields of vision of the member-nations of the ADHO. Eventually these two sets of concerns blend into one, and thus was born the idea for Around DH in 80 days. The project is currently being developed by Ryan Cordell’s Doing Digital Humanities graduate class (#s13dh). You are still welcome to contribute to our global list. After Ryan’s class develops the first stage of the project, the project will be passed around the world for refinement. Around DH indeed!

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DH and Social Sciences?
by Domenico Fiormonte 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

Dear all, two weeks ago I was invited by the University of Lausanne to give a talk on the relationship between social sciences and DH. This wonderful opportunity was offered to me by the launch of Lausanne's new Digital Humanities and Cultures Lab at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences: http://dhlausanne.ch/2013/01/31/universite-de-lausanne-un-labo-dh-est-cree-… Thanks to Claire Clivaz you can read here a short French translation of my talk: http://claireclivaz.hypotheses.org/249 An Italian expanded version could be find here: http://infolet.it/files/2013/02/Digital-Humanities-e-scienze-sociali.pdf All the best Domenico

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Derrida and American Attitude
by Marcus Bingenheimer 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Dear John, Thanks for the Derrida snippet. I will use it in class as a example for the sort of cleverly faulty argumentation that one encounters in the Humanities so often. It is wrong in content ("Cinema is American"), in structure (the ad-hoc, nonsensical definition of 'American' in "deux choses" - one more and one less abusive), and in the artful admission and consequent concealment of his own prejudice "Perhaps my usage of the word 'American' is a little abusive, bien-sur". I hope it will remind the students (and myself) how neither cleverness nor philosophical training protects you from rationalizing your prejudices - and bullshitting about them. What does? marcus -- Dr. Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉 Department of Religion, Temple University http://mbingenheimer.net

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DH and Digital Culture Conference in Sao Paolo
by Alex Gil 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

de interesse, via @AfrolatinProjec: http://www.geledes.org.br/areas-de-atuacao/direitos-humanos/260-noticias-di… Best, A.

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