The Past’s Digital Presence:
Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities
A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University
February 19th and 20th, 2010
Conference Program Available Here
How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? Graduate students from around the globe will address how databases and other digital technologies are making an impact on our research in the humanities during this interdisciplinary symposium.
Keynote Speaker: Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Speaker: Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Closing Roundtable:
Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University
Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King’s College London
George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Sponsored by: Whitney Humanities Center; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Fund; Department of English; Department of Comparative Literature; American Studies Colloquium; Theory and Media Studies Colloquium; Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Department of History; Yale Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure; Center for History and New Media at George Mason University; Department of Classics; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Council of East Asian Studies; Department of the History of Art; Department of Philosophy; Department of Cognitive Science; Department of French; Film Studies; Gilder Lehrman Center; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Department of Religious Studies; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Digital Humanities Working Group; and Cross-Lingual Poetics Working Group
Co-Chairs: Molly Farrell, Heather Klemann, and Taylor Spence
Design Chair: Miriam Posner / On-Line Media Chair: Jana Bouck Remy
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