Category Archives: Session Proposals

Negotiating DH Projects in a Non-DH Environment

Coming from a school that is fairly traditional when it comes to scholarly work, some of our faculty express interest in DH projects but often do not end up pursuing these projects or work on them as side projects in … Continue reading

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Digital humanities, public humanities, and K-12 education

As exciting as new university DH Centers are, as much as they open up new methods of scholarship, I wonder how much their reach extends beyond universities to K-12 education and the general public.  How have digital humanities projects involved … Continue reading

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Sustaining and Preserving Digital Projects

I’d like to have a conversation about how we plan for the future of digital humanities projects, especially the web-based components presenting contextualized data. I’m concerned about sustainability when we lose so many on-line resources each year. How can we … Continue reading

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Bringing the human factor to digital humanities

I’ve noticed that most of the DH conversations center around how the humanities can use and benefit from  technology. I’d like to discuss how technology can benefit from/be influenced by the humanities. Some ideas/questions: Forums,  tribes and online friendships Cyberbullying, … Continue reading

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Customizing Omeka

I’d love to learn about how people are customizing their Omeka sites with a session along the lines of this one (“Making Content Shine with Omeka”) led by Amanda French at THATCamp Philly 2011.  On a broad level, I’d like to learn … Continue reading

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Graduate Student preparation in digital humanities

Clarissa Ceglio has a thoughtful post on this site that doesn’t seem to have made it to the session proposal page.  Clarissa writes: One of the items I’d like to propose for discussion among fellow graduate students attending THATCamp NE … Continue reading

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Exploratory Data Analysis: I’ve graphed my data. Now what?

I’d like to propose a session on exploratory data analysis. While it’s also useful to consider “confirmatory” analysis and visualization when making an argument, I’m interested in the messier, earlier stages of research. The first thing we might do when … Continue reading

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Techno-Haves and Have-Nots

Technological power is political power in the modern world.  Yet many activists, humanists, artists, and disenfranchised social groups not only don’t wield technological power, they feel alienated from it.  What can we do—as academics, researchers, and citizens—to close this gap? … Continue reading

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Reading Data and Code as Cultural Objects

Our world is run by programs written in code in one or several languages. We increasingly use data that we visualize to interpret, read trends, and “drive” decisions. Code, data sets, and databases are themselves observable, culturally determined objects, often … Continue reading

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