Is Humanities Computing An Academic Discipline?

An Interdisciplinary Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar

References:

Articles:

Willard McCarty, "We would know how we know what we know: Responding to the computational transformation of the humanities"
Willard McCarty, "What is humanities computing? Toward a Definition of the Field" (reading for September 24th)
Espen Aarseth, "The Field of Humanistic Informatics and its Relation to the Humanities" (reading for September 24th)
Stanley Chodorow, "Taking the Humanities Off Life-Support"
David Noble, "Digital Diploma Mills"
Hoyt Duggan, "Some Un-Revolutionary Aspects of Computer Editing"
John Unsworth, "Electronic Scholarship, or Scholarly Publishing and the Public"
Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext"
Interview with Allen Renear

Local Examples, Opportunities, and Resources:

School of Architecture
Exhibition of Spatial Analysis and Computer Graphics at the School of Architcecture (Spring, 1998)
Student Work Online at the School of Architecture
The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson, R. Wilson
Washington Places, M. Bednar
Vital Signs, D. Dougald, M. Bednar
Charlottesville Urban Design and Affordable Housing, K. Schwartz
Technologies for Teaching Design in Architecture and Engineering, K. Martini
The Pompeii Forum Project, J. Dobbins, K. Martini, R. Rainey
The Libraries
Electronic Text Center
Faculty, Staff, and Student Projects with the Electronic Text Center
Digital Media Center
Users' Projects at the Digital Media Center
Fine Arts Library Resources: Technology, Media, and Culture
Special Collections Digital Center
Faculty and Student Projects
Information Technology and Communication
ITC's New Media Center
Teaching + Technology Initiative
Yahoo Ranks UVa in top 20 Wired Universities
Virginia Center for Digital History
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
IATH Research Reports
English Department
Web-Accessible Projects in the English Department
American Studies at UVa
Graduate Technologies and Literary Studies Open House (1996 and 1997 project examples)
1999 International Humanities Computing Conference (to be held in Charlottesville, June 9-13)

Humanities Computing Programs Elsewhere:

Humanities Computing Departments and Degrees:

Department of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen
Humanistic Informatics, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alfa-Informatica (Humanities Computing), University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Humanities Computing Courses, Minors, and Concentrations in Other Departments:

Academic Courses at The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, Glasgow University
Humanities With Applied Computing, Kings College, London
English Ph.D. with Concentration in Computers and English Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Humanities Computing Courses at McMaster University, Home Page
Planning Documents for the McMaster Program
Humanities Computing, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Pallas (Humanities Computing) Modules at the University of Exeter
Computers & the Humanities Program: Undergraduate Minors at Brigham Young University

Discussion:

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Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0029: Humanities Computing Discussion
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Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0130: economics, sociology & the history of our science
Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0162: The Legitimacy of Humanities Computing
Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0157: Text-Analysis
Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0236: Humanities Computing and Editing
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Humanist Archives Vol. 13 : 13.0274 "Computers, Literature & Philology" report


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