Svenska humaniorabeskrivningar/Swedish humanities fragments
[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…
The Operative Verbs of the Humanities
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…
References SDSU talk Nov 8, 2017
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.…
Awarded the Mahoney Prize for our PowerPoint article
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…
References UCI infrastructure talk (for the challenging infrastructure/infrastructural regimes bit)
Balsalmo, Anne. 2011. Designing Culture. Duke University Press. Brown, S., Clement, T., Mandell, L., Verhoeven, D., Wernimont, J. 2016. “Creating Feminist Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities”. In Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts. Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, Kraków, pp. 47-50. Davis, Angela. “How Does Change Happen?”. Lecture at UC Davis,…
Om datadriven forskning
Foto: Thomas Neidenmark (från twitter) I fredags (15/9 2017) stod KTH värd för en workshop om datadriven forskning som jag och Pelle Snickars organiserade. Jag ska snart skriva om den lite över övergripande i ett eget inlägg, men vill här fokusera på begreppet “datadriven forskning” forskning som Nina Wormbs funderar…
Workshop datadriven humanistisk forskning 15/9 2017, KTH
Workshop om datadriven humanistisk forskning 15 september 2017, KTH (#DHUM17) A108, Arkitektskolan Denna sida innehåller program, inbjudna deltagare och referenser/material för den workshop om datadriven forskning i humaniora som äger rum på KTH, Stockholm, den 15 september 2017. Organisatörer är Pelle Snickars, Umeå universitet och Patrik Svensson, Umeå universitet/UCLA.…
Why is Infrastructure So Uninflected?
Why is Infrastructure So Uninflected? Informal position paper on digital humanities Symposium on Critical Digital Humanities University of Westminster, London May 22, 2017 Note: This is a slightly adapted and dynamic version of the submitted position paper. This brief statement relates to two longer pieces on infrastructure I am hoping to…
References UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium Keynote Feb 23, 2017
See below for references/reading/sources for my February 23 talk at the UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium (references will be added until February 22). More information about the symposium here. Works referenced/used Borgman, Christine L. 2007. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. MIT Press. Bowker, G. C., &…
Humanistic infrastructure keynote at the UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium 2017
I am very honored to be a keynote for the UCLA DH Infrastructure Symposium on February 23, 2017. Very excited about this – not least learning from others. The program can be found here. Here is the abstract of my talk: Humanistic Infrastucture We have seen a growth in scholarship on infrastructure, research…