Medieval Yack Meets Digital Hack: Theorizing the Digital Humanities

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory

Organizer Name

Corey Sparks

Organizer Affiliation

California State Univ.-Chico

Presider Name

Corey Sparks

Paper Title 1

Poesis: Toward a Theory of Techne and the Digital Humanities

Presenter 1 Name

Amanda Henrichs

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Amherst College

Paper Title 2

Transtemporal Literacy and the Digital Archive

Presenter 2 Name

Caitlin Postal

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Washington-Seattle

Paper Title 3

How Is the Vernacular like Open Source? — Driving Access and Building Communities in the Middle Ages and on the Internet

Presenter 3 Name

Lisa Tagliaferri

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Start Date

12-5-2019 8:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2030

Description

This panel theorizes the digital humanities [DH] through four papers that address archives, literacy, techne, and manuscripts. DH is a field filled with early period specialists. From digitization efforts and quantitative methods to social media-based public scholarship, medievalists have long stood at the forefront of digital initiatives. DH, moreover, has been more associated with questions of methodology and praxis than theory. This suggests a great need for work that theorizes DH within and beyond the context of Medieval Studies. - Corey Sparks, CSU-Chico