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About Networks
I am associated with a group called 4Humanities that is a Digital Humanities advocacy group based in the US that is advocating for the Humanities. The economic reality of the recession in the US and Europe has put enormous pressures on Humanities schools and many are closing or losing staff. The group is doing a…
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Towards an inconvenient Digital Humanities
Next year will be a reasonably big year on the Digital Humanities calendar in Australia. In March, we will hold THATCamp here at the University of Melbourne and also, and we will establish our very own Digital Humanities Association in the first quarter of 2011. In the year’s second half, I will run a symposium…
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DH down-under
An engaging and critical post from Bethany Nowviskie about her recent trip to Australia. Mostly, I was struck (as I am after every DH conference or unconference) at how lucky I am to have the chance to work with collaborators from around the world who share a set of basic values: that hacking is a…
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Bethany Nowviskie’s talk in Melbourne, Australia
Dr Bethany Nowviskie from VeRSI on Vimeo.
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Information futures event: Dr Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia @ Melbourne (Dec 6)
Dr Bethany Nowviskie Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the University of Virginia Library and Associate Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute will speak at the final Information Futures Forum for 2010 on Monday 6 December, 9.30 – 10.30 at Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A, University of Melbourne Monopolies of Invention: Collaboration Across Class Lines…
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The nation needs the humanities
Embedded video from Cornell University Here is a lecture from Don Randel, President of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation that funds a number of digital humanities initiatives around the world (including in Australia). It is good to engage with the debates and hone the arguments as you will never know when you will need them!
