Mellon Seminar 2008-09: What Is(n't) Digital Humanities?

In this year-long, public seminar, faculty and graduate student participants will examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities" with invited experts and practitioners from various fields. Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.

Topics:

• Web 2.0
• Virtual worlds
• Ubiquitous computing
• Geo-temporal navigation
• Participatory media
• Digital narratives
• Open source knowledge
• Collaborative authorship
• Experiential design
• The classroom as laboratory

Seminar guests include:

• Johanna Drucker
• Michael Schanks
• Lev Manovich
• Diane Favro
• Franco Moretti
• Tara McPherson
• Peter Lunenfeld

Graduate students may take the seminar for 2 units of course credit per quarter (COMP LIT 597), but enrollment is not required for participation. For more information, visit http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ or join the UCLA Digital Humanities Facebook Group.

Seminars meet in Humanities Building 193/199 from 2-5 pm on the following dates:
* Note: The November 5th meeting will take place in the Visualization Portal, room 5628 Math Sciences.

• Fall Quarter: October 8th, November 5th, December 1st
• Winter Quarter: January 5th, February 2nd, March 2nd
• Spring Quarter: April 6th, May 4th, June 1st

Topics for each session will be announced once they have been finalized.

The seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory), Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities (UCLA) and Todd Presner (UCLA), Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature.