Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitioners from various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.
This year’s seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA). The monthly seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and the general public. Participants outside of UCLA can also join us at Entropia, on the
Digital Library Federation island, in Second Life.
Graduate students may take the seminar for 2 units of course credit perquarter (COMP LIT 597; the class ID is: 556944221), but enrollment is not required for participation. Individual meetings of the seminar will be announced on this page, via the UCLA Digital Humanities Facebook Group, and in Second Life.
October 8th, 2008: Introductory Session
193 Humanities Building
Presenters: Todd Presner and Jeffrey Schnapp
November 5th: Visualization
5628 Math and Sciences Building (enter on first floor, follow signs to Visualization Portal)
The UCLA Visualization Portal is a 40-seat theater with up-to-date virtual reality technologies. The Portal is used for both instruction and research, and has particular foci on Historical Architectural Monuments, Scientific Visualizations and Digital Technologies for the Performance Arts. Research being worked on in the Portal spans the arts, sciences, humanities, urban planning projects, and medicine.
Presenters: Diane Favro and Chris Johanson
Seminar will meet in 5628 Math and Sciences. A group will walk over from the Humanities Bld 193 at 1:55 PM.
December 1st: Software Studies
193 Humanities Building
Presenter: Lev Manovich
January 5th, 2009: Post-Print
306 Royce
Presenter: Johanna Drucker
February 2nd: Process (not Product)
Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building)
Presenter: Tara McPherson
March 2nd:
Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building)
Presenter:
April 6th: Design and Process
Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building)
Presenter: Peter Lunenfeld
May 4th: Lynn Hershman
Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building)
June 1st: TBD
Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Building)
