The Digital Humanities: Some Contexts, Concepts, and Initiatives - Nov. 2

When: Wednesday, November 2, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow
Where: Coach House, Green College, UBC, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road

Speaker: Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria (BC)

This lecture, by one of Canada's leading authorities in the field, will lay out some key contexts and concepts in the digital humanities, focusing on themes such as social knowledge creation, consensus-driven pedagogical communities and collaborative research partnership. Examples will be drawn from the speaker’s experience as director of several digital humanities interventions into research, scholarship and teaching, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Major Collaborative Research Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (http://inke.ca), the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (http://www.dhsi.org ), and a project in “social” editing (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Devonshire_Manuscript). Ultimately, the talk urges a closer examination of what lies at the intersection of computing and the humanities as a necessary step in the humanities’ digital self-determination. Ray Siemens' publications include (as co-editor), A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004, 2015), A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007) and Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (2014).