Editors’ Note: The following talks, panel websites, blog posts, and public documents all came from the 2012 meetings of the Modern Language Association and American Historical Association and associated THATCamp the past weekend. *updated 1/26/12*
Papers and Panels
Panels: #alt-ac: The Future of ‘Alternative Academic’ Careers and Alternative Paths, Pitfalls, and Jobs in the Digital Humanities
- Jason Rhody, #alt-ac in cultural heritage and government organizations
- Suanna H. Davis, Live Blog of Session
- Brian Croxall, “Five Questions and Three Answers about Alt-Ac“
- Bethany Noviskie, two & a half cheers for the Lunaticks
- William Pannapacker, Alt-Ac is the Future of the Academy
Panel: Archivists, Historians, and the Future of Authority in Archives
- Kate Theimer, Archivists and Historians – Am I giving archivists too much credit
- Kate Theimer, Some observations on the “archival divide,” or what I said at AHA about historians and archivists
- Antoinette Burton, Antoinette Burton’s perspective on the “archival divide:” remarks delivered at AHA
- Peter Wosh, Peter Wosh’s thoughts on the “archival divide”: remarks delivered at AHA
Panel: Building Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom
- Kathryn E. Crowther, Brian Croxall, Maureen Engel, Paul Fyfe, Kathi Inman Berens, Janelle A. Jenstad, Charlotte Nunes, and Heather Zwicker, Electronic Showcase
- Roger T. Whitson, My Storify of Digital Pedagogy at #mla12
- Kathi Inman Berens, Mapping Occupy: Digital Pedagogy on a Deadline
Panel: Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies
- Jason Rhody, Emerging Genres, Progressive Readings: Games, Fiction, and Narrative Play
- Edmond Y. Chang, Beyond Window Dressing: Queering Video Game Studies
- Zach Whalen, Close Enough
Panel: Composing New Partnerships in the Digital Humanities
- Alex Reid, Digital Humanities and an object-oriented democracy
- Matthew K. Gold, DH and Comp/Rhet: What We Share and What We Miss When We Share
Panel: Crowdsourcing History: Collaborative Online Transcription and Archives
- Alexandra Eveleigh, History in Harmony: Exploring Collaboration
- Katherine Harris, Related Tweets
- Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt, Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australian Policy [slide share]
Panel: The Cultural Place of Nineteenth-Century Poetry
- Natalie M. Houston, What can Digital Reading Tell Us about the Material Places of Victorian Poetry?
Panel: Debates in the Digital Humanities
- Matthew K. Gold, Whose Revolution: Towards a More Equitable Digital Humanities
- Elizabeth Losh, Hactivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University
- Lee Skallerup, Storify of Debates in Digital Humanities
Workshop: Digital Humanities: A Hands-On Workshop
- Jeffrey W. McClurken, Teaching with Social Media
- Fred Gibbs,Text Mining
- Rwany Sibaja, Digital Storytelling
- Summary by Elisabeth Grant
Panel: E-Roundtable on Digital Pedagogy
Panel: The Future is Here: Pioneers Discuss the Future of Digital Humanities
- Pillarisetti Sudhir, Geeks bearing Gifts: New Tools for the Humanities (Report on Panel)
Panel: Gertrude Stein and Music
Panel: How to Get Started in Digital Humanities
- Katherine D. Harris, Digital Pedagogy at DH Commons
Panel: Language, Literature, Learning
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Networking the Field
Panel: Learned Journals and Libraries: Knowledge Economies and Economics of Knowledge
- Harriett Green, Collaborative Economies: Tools and Strategies for Scholars and Libraries [slide share]
Panel: The Literary Archive in an Age of Quantification: Evidence, Method, Imagination
Panel: Networks, Maps, and Words: Digital-Humanities Approaches to the Archive of American Slavery
- Lauren F. Klein, ‘A Report Has Come Here’: Social Network Analysis in the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Panel: Of King’s Treasuries, (GIGO) Wiki, (anti-) Google, and the E-Protean Invasion: The Evolving Nature of Scholarly Research
Panel: Old Books and New Tools
- Katherine Harris, The Accidental Digital Archivist
Panel: Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media
- Lemont Dobson, Philip J. Ethington, Katrina Gulliver, and Jennifer Serventi, Presenting Historical Research Using Digital Media
Panel: Racial Silences in the Archive and the Historiography of Race in Postcolonial Latin America
- Chad Thomas Black, The AHA and “racial silence” in the criminal archive
Panel: Reading Writing Interfaces: E-Literature’s Past and Present
- Lori Emerson, Activist Media Poetics: Electronic Literature Against the Interface-free
- Mark Sample, Strange Rain and the Poetics of Motion and Touch
Panel: Rhetorical Historiography and the Digital Humanities
- Suanna H. Davis, Live Blog of Session
- Ron Greene, Live Blog of Session
Panel: Text:Image – Visual Studies in the English Major
- Ryan Cordell, Mapping the Antebellum Culture of Reprinting
Panel: What Works? Integrating Culture into First-Year English and Foreign Language Courses
- Amanda Licastro, Revolutionary Methods: Effectively Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies in the Composition Classroom
Keynote Address for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Giving it Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication
Additional Materials
Exhibit: Electronic Literature Exhibit
- Dene Grigar, Lori Emerson, and Kathi Inman Berens, Electronic Literature Exhibit
- Readings & Performances, Part 1 (YouTube)
- Readings & Performances, Part 2 (YouTube)
- Readings & Performances, Part 3 (YouTube)
Shared Documents
- The problem of old digital history sites–AHA 2012 THATCamp – Google Docs
- http://nowviskie.org/handouts/DH/10rules.pdf
- THATCamp AHA Grad Training + Tenure – Google Docs
- THATCamp AHA- Grantwriting strategies for the Digital Humanities – Google Docs
- THATCamp AHA – Programming in the Humanities – Google Docs
- http://www.jenterysayers.com/sayers_mla12.pdf
Reflections on the Digital Humanities at AHA and MLA
- Alex Reid, Some Digital Humanities Encounters at #mla12
- Korey Jackson, “Once More with Feeling”: How MLA Found its Heart
- Jennifer Howard, MLA Stories
- Jonathan Rees, AHA Day 1: Keeping up with the Joneses (Digital Humanities Edition)
- Michael Kramer, Activating the Archivists: reflections on getting in trouble with archivists and the productive conversations that ensued
- Miriam Posner, Utopianism and its detractors
- Natalia Cecire, In defense of transforming DH
- Roger Whitson, Does DH really need to be transformed? My Reflections on #mla12
- William Pannapacker, “Pannapacker at MLA: The Come-to-DH Moment“