Last year, the lab was supported by the ETCL and the DHSI to conduct its “Hello World” workshop series intended for graduate students at UVic. Partnerships like these are central to the lab’s everyday. We rely heavily on collaborations with other groups, both on and off our campus.
Today, we learned that our two proposals for ETCL-supported workshops in 2013-14—the “Building Public Humanities” and “Hello World” (Year Two) series—were successful! We’re looking forward to working with the ETCL again next year, in this capacity and others.
In the meantime, below is an excerpt from the “Building Public Humanities” proposal:
Building Public Humanities (lead organizers: Nina Belojevic and Jentery Sayers)
Building on the 2012-13 “Hello World” workshop series supported by the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and the Maker Lab in the Humanities, “Building Public Humanities” is a series of six 2013-14 workshops intended primarily for humanities graduate students at the University of Victoria (UVic). The workshops respond to a key yet often overlooked issue at the intersection of public and digital humanities, namely the demand for digital projects that are not only responsive to current social, cultural, and political issues but are also invested in mobilizing knowledge within and beyond the academy. Recognizing that such mobilization demands approaches to humanities graduate education that are rare in many humanities graduate programs, the workshop series gives participants a concrete sense of how to plan, build, develop, revise, and assess public digital projects. Rather than relying on abstract material, the series is anchored in a case study approach, focusing on a single digital project across all six meetings. Through this approach, the workshops are also able to address topics such as problem-based modeling, licensing, speaking for/with community partners, collaboration, building process narratives, producing interoperable data and documentation, social justice action planning, and project management.
— Jentery