Digital Humanities Week 2011

26-29 September 2011

The 2011 Digital Humanities Week at the University of Maine explores the impact of digital research and publication tools on artistic creation and humanities scholarship.

Long a workhorse of the empirical sciences, computing has recently begun to transform the study of the human condition. This series of events will touch on databases and cultural heritage, new publication platforms for scholars, and the up- and downsides of the increasing digitization of society.

Schedule of events

The 2011 Digital Humanities Week includes presentations and workshops by photo archivists and Twitter sociologists, guerilla gardeners and best-selling Kindle authors. Click below to view:

Schedule in HTML

Schedule as printable PDF

Poster as PDF

Blog discussion

Accompanying Digital Humanities Week 2011 is a continuously updating Web site that enables audience members to discuss related topics in advance with presenters and with each other during the events. These remarks will be re-presented by the organizers as additional questions and comments at the end of each presentation.

Please join the discussion!

Twitter discussion

Twitter aficionados can recount conference events or participate remotely in questions and answers using the hashtag #dhweek.

Digital Curation Program

Are you an archivist wondering how to digitize analog records? A curator wondering how to preserve videos for posterity? A photographer who wants to create a searchable online portfolio? 

This two-year graduate certificate arms anyone who deals with digital files with strategies for promoting digital access and preservation.

Online courses in the program are scheduled to begin in fall 2012. You can find more information about the Digital Curation program at DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu.

For more information

Please contact us at ude.eniam.timu@erutluc.loop or call 207 581-4477.

Digital Humanities Week is sponsored by the departments of English, History, New Media, and Sociology, with support from the University of Maine Humanities Initiative and Digital Curation program. Web and print design by Still Water.