Please see below for the references I mentioned during my invited presentation at the “Searching Questions” digital humanities symposium on July 11, 2018. Photo from the symposium (Anne Alexander speaking). Photo credit: Patrik Svensson. Bear, Laura. 2015. Navigating Austerity : Currents of Debt along a South Asian River. Stanford University Press. Bhattacharyya,…
I am very happy to have been invited to speak at the first Cambridge Digital Humanities Symposium – Searching Questions – on July 11. I will speak about “Radicalized Infrastructures” and also take part in a round table discussion. Infrastructure abstract included below. More information about the symposium here and…
Forskningsinfrastruktur har kommit att bli ett centralt begrepp för högskolesektorn. Jag intresserar mig för infrastruktur forskningsmässigt, policymässigt och i relation till utvecklingen av humaniora, och ingår i en del grupper och sammanhang nationellt och internationellt. Jag har här samlat en del resurser och information kring infrastruktur med tonvikt på det nationella…
Digitaliseringen av högskolan Anförande på seminarium i Riksdagen Patrik Svensson En del av ”Hur utmanas universitet och högskolor av digitaliseringen?”, onsdagen den 2 maj 2018, 13:00 – 15:30, Riksdagen, L4-17 Nedanstående är mitt manus för en del av mitt framförande. Jag hade också rollen att kommentera övriga deltagare, men dessa…
McPherson, T. 2018. Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design. Harvard University Press. Noble, S. U. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press. Se nedan för bild på “elscooter” (som jag planerar att använda som enkelt exempel). Mer information om Patrik Svensson på svenska finns…
I am happy to announce that last week we submitted a proposal for a six-year research program on the humanities and infrastructure (to a Swedish funding agency). I am the PI and Pelle Snickars, Umeå University, is the assistant PI. We are humble and delighted to be working with the…
[the below fragments are descriptions of the humanities taken from six Swedish university sites, from the Swedish Research Council and the organization Humtank, see here for a rough Google translation – primarily intended for my MEDEA talk on Dec 7, 2017). Nedan listar jag ett antal beskrivningar av humaniora som…
I am working on an article on the ‘operative verbs’ of the humanities. My primary interest is how the humanities frame themselves and their work, in particular in relation to their (active) role within the academy and in society. I plan to do a corpus-based study, but am also trying…
The below list contains references for my talk on “Why humanists should care about infrastructure” on November 8 at San Diego State University. Work in progress – references will be added until the time of the talk. Ayers, E. L. (2009). Where the humanities live. Dædalus, 36(2005), 24–34. Balsalmo, Anne.…
Erica Robles-Anderson and myseIf are incredibly honored to just have been given the Mahoney Prize for our 2016 article “‘One Damn Slide After Another’: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech” (which is a dear, important project to both of us). The Mahoney Prize recognizes “an outstanding article in the history…
