Digital Humanities Week 2017
2-6 October 2017
University of Maine, Orono
The theme of the 2017 Digital Humanities Week is STEM to STEAM--a movement proposing that the arts and humanities play a stronger role in setting the agenda for and assessing the outcome of scientific and technological research.
Presentations include "Art at the Edge of Science," "The Right To Unmake," "DIY Scientific Instruments," "Fair Use in the Age of Instagram," and "Experimental Knowledge and the Digital Humanities."
Visit the dedicated website for a schedule of events and more information about the conference.
Digital Humanities Week 2015
21-25 September 2015
University of Maine, Orono
The third of these events, the 2015 Digital Humanities Week, investigated mapping as a specific spatial technique as well as a more general strategy for finding alignments among data from differing disciplines.
Presentations included "How Satan Went Viral" (Ben Ray), "The Spatial Story of the Holocaust" (Anne Knowles), and "Telling Important Stories with Real-time Game Technology" (Chuck Carter).
Organized by the UMaine Humanities Center. Sponsored by the Division of Student Life, Fogler Library, and Departments of History, New Media, and the Intermedia MFA Program.
Digital Humanities Week 2013
7-10 October 2013
University of Maine, Orono
The 2013 Digital Humanities Week offered 12 events, including presentations by luminaries from the University of Virginia, MIT, NYU, and the Smithsonian.
The week was also Maine's first THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp), a bottom-up conference in which the participants determine the topics to study and discuss.
The takeaway from the THATCamp sessions included a series of online tutorials created by participants to teach the skill learned in each session.
The week's events were sponsored by the New Media Department Correll Fund, the UMaine Humanities Initiative, and the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series.
Digital Humanities Week 2011
26-29 September 2011
University of Maine, Orono
The 2011 Digital Humanities Week at the University of Maine explored 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.
The 2011 Digital Humanities Week included presentations and workshops by photo archivists and Twitter sociologists, guerilla gardeners and best-selling Kindle authors. Click below to view:
Digital Humanities Week 2011 was sponsored by the departments of English, History, New Media, and Sociology, with support from the University of Maine Humanities Initiative and Digital Curation program.
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 all-online graduate certificate arms anyone who deals with digital files with strategies for promoting digital access and preservation. Find out more at DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu.
Related resources
Blog discussion
Accompanying Digital Humanities Week 2011 was 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 were re-presented by the organizers as additional questions and comments at the end of each presentation.
Web and print design by Still Water.
