Dear friends,
I arrived in India one week ago, and the terrifying Paris news reached me on the 14th morning. The phisical distance instead of mitigating the shock has somewhat amplified my emotional response. God knows if what we insist to call the "West" will survive to another Sept 11. Democracy, freedom, tolerance, equality: these are the real targets of these attacks.
I've been in Nepal for one month before coming here, and that experience had a profound impact on me both as a human being and a scholar. More than 9000 people died, yet I got from a Nepali friend this message on the Paris massacre: "I don't understand how people can be so Demon hearted". Yes, *our* Demons unleashed...
Some of you have probably seen the news about the DH seminar in Kerala (http://www.maharajas.ac.in/content/home/programme.pdf). Local organizers are trying to put some more info online, including presentations and abstracts. Overall, it was an incredible experience. Maharaja's college it is a magnificent one century old building. Tagore call it the 'Cambridge of the South', and in fact its architecture reflects its glorious (aesthetically speaking) colonial heritage.
The Kerala colleagues were wonderful, their hospitality unmatchable, and they were all enthusiastic and excited about digital humanities research and teaching. Most of the about thirty presenters were young graduate students in their mid-twenties. I'm not a prophet, but I expect soon a big DH movement coming out of India.
On the second day there was a power cut - an event relatively frequent in India - and we were moved to another room equipped with a power generator. So everybody was able to show the slides, but it was not possible to access the web. Imagine what it could have happened in a western setting... hysteria and panic, disappointment and disdain. Instead everybody was calm and helpful, nobody complained with the organisers and make them feel miserable, and the conference went on and actually respected the tight schedule...
So I've experienced _in corpore vili_ the limits of the digital, in fact the limits of the taken-for-granted western life model based on, for example, the total dependence on electricity. Obvious observations, but try for a moment to assume this kind of scenario and the impact it will have on our everyday [working] habits.
I think that if we ignore these basic differences we will fail to address the multicultural and diversity issues we all care for, and DH instead of helping to resolve problems will widen the global cultural and social divide.
Yours,
Domenico
Thanks for your messages. We should stick to the simple, naive but powerfull idea that there is always a way to get a better world.
Frédéric
Maître-assistant, université de Lausanne
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Thanks for your messages. We should stick to the simple, naive but po idea that there is always a way to get a better world.
Frédéric
Le 14 nov. 2015 18:03, "Élika Ortega" <elikaortega@gmail.com> a écrit :Alex, Øyvind, all,
Thanks for your messages. All friends and colleagues are ok too, thankfully. The world has difficult days ahead indeed but it's always inspiring knowing how much we care about each other and how much we believe in the good causes.
Much love,
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> On Nov 14, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Øyvind Eide <lister@oeide.no> wrote:
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> Dear Alex,
>
> Thank you so much for this message. Being in Brussels on the way from London to Cologne the gravity the situation is visible, even if what I see is but a small echo. As far as I have heard our French colleagues are safe and I hope the same is true for our colleagues in Lebanon.
>
> But so many others are not safe and not unharmed. The answer is more love and more diversity. But it is hard.
>
> Ø.
>
>> 14. nov. 2015 kl. 16:45 skrev Alex Gil <colibri.alex@gmail.com>:
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>> Dear friends,
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>> My heart out goes out to all of us. Hope that you and your friends are safe in Beirut and Paris. I'm so apprehensive of the dark days ahead. Here's hoping that we can all have the strength in our own tiny ways to move the world to some good.
>>
>> Much love,
>> a.
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