The digital humanities is well represented at\u00a0this weekend’s 130th annual Modern Language Association Convention (Vancouver, BC; January 8-11). A simple keyword search of the 2015 Program displays 43 sessions that match the criteria \u201cAll text: digital humanities\u201d; 6 sessions match \u201cAll text: DH,\u201d and 32 sessions are listed under the program\u2019s Subject heading:<\/p>\n
General Literature\u2013Electronic Technology (Teaching, Research, and Theory)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Because it reminded me of Chris\u2019s thoughtful (and provoking) post on Desmond Schmidt’s article two days ago, I wanted to first bring attention, and share the link, to a session held yesterday:\u00a0204. Text Tools in the (Digital) Humanities<\/a> (Friday, 9).\u00a0Here\u2019s a case being made by David Hoover for \u201cplain text\u201d alternatives to\u00a0XML, which also focuses on inter-operability, and shares some of the concerns in Schmidt’s article that Chris discussed Thursday. Abstracts of all 3 papers for session 204 are posted at\u00a0204\u00a0Abstracts<\/a>. The top-most abstract is Hoover\u2019s paper, titled \u201cThe Promise of the Plain: Plain Text and Plain Tools in the Digital Humanities.\u201d<\/p>\n I won’t even try to briefly touch on all 43 sessions, but another that caught my attention, and I wanted to share because it looked interesting, was this morning\u2019s roundtable:\u00a0448. Disrupting the Digital Humanities<\/a> (Saturday, 10).\u00a0Last night while browsing\u00a0the program, I paused at\u00a0this one in particular, because\u00a0I saw that participants included Sean Michael Morris (presiding) and Jessie Stommel (final speaker), who are co-directors of\u00a0Hybrid Pedagogy<\/a>, an online blog\/ peer-reviewed journal that I follow. According to the program’s session description:<\/p>\n All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion. This roundtable rethinks how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many academic disciplines. Participants investigate the edges and open the digital humanities more fully to its fringes and outliers.<\/p>\n For papers featured at\u00a0this morning’s roundtable discussion, go here: DisruptingDH<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sessions, abstracts, and (some) papers from DH-related events at this year’s\u00a0MLA can be found through links\u00a0in\u00a0the Full Program<\/a>. Relative to other methodologies and content areas, the digital humanities remains the annual mega-conference\u2019s MVP (Most Visible Player)-as Pannapacker called it, \u201cThe Thing<\/a>\u201d-five years running. The 204 and 408 sessions give a good idea of the kinds of wide-ranging approaches being taken, moreover. DH at this year\u2019s MLA–from textual analysis and close reading to LOL cats and critical queer theory–is thriving, and scholars in languages and literature are doing some pretty meaningful work across\u00a0diverse areas of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The digital humanities is well represented at\u00a0this weekend’s 130th annual Modern Language Association Convention (Vancouver, BC; January 8-11). A simple keyword search of the 2015 Program displays 43 sessions that match the criteria \u201cAll text: digital humanities\u201d; 6 sessions match \u201cAll text: DH,\u201d and 32 sessions are listed under the program\u2019s Subject heading: General Literature\u2013Electronic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2045,85724,1],"tags":[88923,45918,85725,88942,88925],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-modern-language-association","category-uncategorized","tag-dh","tag-digital-humanities","tag-mla-2015","tag-modern-language-association","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}