The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the first of four sessions in the 2014-15 The “Nuts and Bolts” of Digital Humanities, a discussion series that focuses on the pragmatics of DH research.
On Friday, 10th October, from 4:00-5:00, Richard Lane (Professor of English at Vancouver Island University) will be leading a discussion on “The Space(s) of Digital Humanities.”
Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
Friday, 10th October
4:00-5:00
University Club (Lounge)
University of Victoria
Abstract: How far do physical lab environments transform our humanistic research? And how do we even account for the importance of physical space within the digital humanities, when we have simultaneously created and occupied virtual, digital, networked spaces? DH projects are usually situated within and across hybrid, collaborative laboratory environments (DH Labs; Maker Spaces; Fab Labs; Innovation Labs; Media Labs; Change Labs; etc) and yet the materiality of these spaces are not usually analyzed or foregrounded in the dissemination of DH research. Labs range from temporary, deliberately ephemeral, and highly mobile “pop-up” spaces, while others have become part of the university’s fixed or institutionally identified infrastructure. In this session we will explore the intersection of the material and the virtual, the analog and the digital, as well as located and dispersed spaces of inquiry. Does space matter? Are we being creative enough in taking our laboratory environments and shaping them anew? These, and other related questions concerning a phenomenology of digital humanities space, will be explored at this event.
Bio: Professor Richard J. Lane (http://web.viu.ca/richardlane/index.html) is the author or editor of eleven academic books and numerous essays on literary theory (poststructuralism, postcolonialism, Benjamin, Derrida, Baudrillard, the sublime, and the theological turn), including Beckett and Philosophy (2002), Functions of the Derrida Archive (2003), Reading Walter Benjamin (2005), Fifty Key Literary Theorists (2006), and most recently Global Literary Theory: An Anthology (2013). Lane directs the Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Literary Theory Research Group at Vancouver Island University, BC, where he is also the Principal Investigator of the MeTA Digital Humanities Lab, supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the BC Knowledge Development Fund. Lane is also a Director of Innovation Island Technology Association, as well as being an Associated Researcher at The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, at The University of Victoria, BC. DH projects have included text encoding modernist and postmodernist authors, creating new interfaces and controller devices for digitized experimental fiction, and developing 3D narratological TEI analytic tags. One of Lane’s current DH projects is creating an archive of context-rich print and digital publication instances of In Flanders Fields.
