Schedule [Note that timing of activities and readings will likely be revised. Please read items ahead do the day that they are listed]
January
Thurs 9
Introductions and logistics
Tues 14
What is Digital Humanities and What is it Doing in English Departments
The History of Humanities Computing
Thurs 16
DH History and Methods Report
Tues 21
Humanistic Theory and Digital Scholarship
Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities
Thurs 23
DH History and Methods Report
Tues 28
Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Where’s the Beef? Does Digital Humanities Have to Answer Questions?
Why Digital Humanities Is “Nice”
Thurs 30
DH History and Methods Draft Research Report Due
DH History and Methods Video Report
February
Tues 4
Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key
After Digital Storytelling: Video Composing in the New Media Age
Thurs 6
DH History and Methods Video Report
Storyboard and Script Due
Tues 11
Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing
Thurs 13
DH History and Methods Video Report (Peer Reviews of Videos in Progress)
Tues 18
DH History and Methods Video Report Draft Due
Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation
Podcast Planning
Thurs 20
Podcast Planning
Tues 25
Podcast Planning
Thurs 27
Podcast Delivery *
March
Tues 3
Podcast Delivery *
Thurs 5
Podcast Editing
Tues 10 Spring Break
Thurs 12 Spring Break
Tues 17
Extended break
Thurs 19
Extended break
Tues 24
Zoom optional meeting help time
Podcast Editing
Digital Humanities History and Methods Report Revisions Due
Transcript of DH Video Draft due
Thurs 26
Zoom optional meeting/help time
Podcast editing
Tues 31
Zoom optional meeting/help time
Podcasts Due
Captivating Algorithms: Recommender Systems as Traps
Portfolio
April
Thurs 2
Zoom optional meeting help time
Portfolio/Revisions
Tues 7
Zoom optional meeting help time
Algorithms as Culture
Portfolio/Revisions
Thurs 9
Zoom optional meeting help time
Portfolio/Revisions
Tues 14
Zoom optional meeting help time
Portfolio/Revisions
Thurs 16
Zoom optional meeting help time
Portfolio/Revisions
Tues 21
Zoom optional meeting help time
Pinterest Report Due
Portfolio/Revisions
Thurs 23
Zoom optional meeting help time
Portfolio/Revisions
May
Friday 1 at 8:00AM Final Exam
Portfolio due, all revisions due