Mellon Seminar 2008-09: What is(n’t) Digital Humanities?

Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitionersfrom various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize,and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringingtogether insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, wewill attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the21st century.

Thisyear’s seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University,Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor ofDigital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic Languages andComparative Literature, UCLA). The monthly seminars are open tograduate students, faculty, and the general public. Participantsoutside of UCLA can also join us at Entropia, on the Digital Library Federation island, in Second Life.