Lehrende: Prof. Ph.D. Julianne Nyhan
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Geschichte (Institut)
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 25
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: Digital Humanities is the field that words at the intersection of computing and the humanities. It seems to ask new questions about the role of computing in the humanities and the role of the humanities in computing. The origins of this field have often been traced back to the 1940s and 1950s, to work that was done by Father Roberto Busa S.J. on the mechanisation of concordance making. In this class we will review and analyse a number of recent publications that have sought to disrupt this received origin story, and we will consider emerging understandings of the contributions of non-hegemonic actors to the emergence and development of the field now often known as Digital Humanities. The set text for this class will be: 2016. Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn. Computation and the Humanities:towards an oral history of Digital Humanities. Springer. (Open Access - PDF / ePUB here). Other texts will be specified in due course. By the end of this module, students will be able to: 1. Identify and engage with a range of texts that seek to historicize the origins and emergence of the field of digital humanities 2. Critique the benefits and limits of methods like oral history for capturing excluded or otherwise marginalised narratives about processes of knowledge production in the Humanities and beyond This class will be examined by 3,000 word essay only
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