The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
CARA (Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America)
Organizer Name
Sarah Davis-Secord
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of New Mexico
Presider Name
Sarah Davis-Secord
Paper Title 1
Discussant
Presenter 1 Name
Abigail G. Robertson
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of New Mexico
Paper Title 2
Discussant
Presenter 2 Name
Dorothy Carr Porter
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Paper Title 3
Discussant
Presenter 3 Name
Racha Kirakosian
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Harvard Univ.
Paper Title 4
Discussant
Presenter 4 Name
Johanna Kramer
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Start Date
10-5-2018 1:30 PM
Session Location
Valley 3 Eldridge 309
Description
What does it mean to be, or to train our students to be, medievalists in the 21st century? With the competing demands of learning new digital methods, training for a job market that reaches far beyond the academy, and worrying about widespread attacks on the humanities, it can sometimes feel like a difficult time to be or to train students to become scholars of the premodern world. And yet, other perspectives might suggest that this is the best time of all to be a medievalist – with new technologies opening up new questions and approaches to sources, a focus on global history that broadens our medieval horizons, new media outlets that increase audiences for our work, and the growing openness about the various career paths medievalists can follow, this panel will discuss ways to productively approach these new norms with optimism. This panel will feature four or five speakers discussing how we can work, teach, and train students within this new world while studying and teaching a very old world.
Sarah Davis-Secord
The Twenty-First-Century Medievalist: Digital Methods, Career Diversity, and Beyond (A Roundtable)
Valley 3 Eldridge 309
What does it mean to be, or to train our students to be, medievalists in the 21st century? With the competing demands of learning new digital methods, training for a job market that reaches far beyond the academy, and worrying about widespread attacks on the humanities, it can sometimes feel like a difficult time to be or to train students to become scholars of the premodern world. And yet, other perspectives might suggest that this is the best time of all to be a medievalist – with new technologies opening up new questions and approaches to sources, a focus on global history that broadens our medieval horizons, new media outlets that increase audiences for our work, and the growing openness about the various career paths medievalists can follow, this panel will discuss ways to productively approach these new norms with optimism. This panel will feature four or five speakers discussing how we can work, teach, and train students within this new world while studying and teaching a very old world.
Sarah Davis-Secord