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…
Dec 8 2016 UCLA Composition event videos

On December 8, UCLA hosted an event on”Composition across/between edges, surfaces and materialities” with participation from scholars and experts from a range of disciplines and areas. The event was organized by Élika Ortega, Miram Posner and Patrik Svensson with expert help from Francesca Albrezzi. Read more about the event here…
Infrastructures for a Reimagined Humanities Feb 2, 2017 – references
See below for a list of sources/references for my talk on “Infrastructures for a Reimagined Humanities” at ASU on February 2, 2017 (organized in order of appearance). More information about the talk here. More references may be added later. ”Tågens höghastighetsbanor en dålig affär för samhället”. Newspaper article. Dagens Nyheter.…
Humanities Infrastructure (and DH) Resources
Humanities Infrastructure (and DH) – Some Resources I compiled the below list of resources (most available online) in preparation for two talks late October 2016: University of Glasgow (Oct 26) and University of Groningen (Oct 28). Not all references are relevant to both talks. Brown, S., Clement, T., Mandell, L.,…
Protected: Making a Real Difference
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Digital Humanities as Humanistic Infrastructure – Oct 26 talk at Glasgow
Digital Humanities as Humanistic Infrastructure HATII, University of Glasgow, October 26 at 4 pm (details) Abstract Digital humanities is heavily entangled with infrastructure and infrastructural thinking. The field itself is concerned with standards, curation of data, encoding schemas, tagging systems, project charters, tools, interoperability, maker labs and technologically induced methodology. Furthermore,…
Visiting Professorship at UCLA (and a personal account)

I am very happy to announce that I will be a Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at UC Los Angeles starting from the fall of 2016 (connected to my chair at Umeå University). My institutional home will be Information Studies with a dual appointment with the Digital Humanities Program. It is a multiple-year…
Protected: Composition Across/Between Edges, Surfaces and Materialities
Architecture, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production

Architecture, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production (July 10 talk, Washington DC) Patrik Svensson Why would anyone want to block the newly installed glass window in their office door (meant to enable easier access for people and support collaboration)? What is the use of a large floor screen in a humanities lab?…
Critical Visualization Event at GC, CUNY on June 9, 2016

Unflattening and Enacting Visualization #critviz2016 A one-day workshop on critical visualization The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City June 9, 2016 Update June 8: about 60 people registered for the event, everything looking fantastic. live stream will be available here (low-tech, distributed responsibility stream). Welcome! Introduction Visualization has developed strongly…