Dec 17, 2019
Digital Humanities in Action: Sociotechnical Challenges of Institutionalizing DH and of Collaborative Big Data History
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Digital Humanities Workshop
- Mats Fridlund
In the presentation he will share his ongoing experience of the practical and disciplinary political challenges of setting up, leading and doing research at a digital humanities center at a faculty of humanities at a major European research university. The presentation will be divided in two interconnected parts. The first focus on the practice and politics of institutionalizing and shaping a new national research field in the form of digital humanities in general and digital history in particular. The second focus on the challenges of leading and conducting a collaborative big data language technology project (on the history of terrorism) from the perspective of a traditional historian used to write singleauthored articles and monographs.
Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
About This Series
Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!