Category Archives: Session Proposals

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →