{de} Im Forschungskolloquium werden internationale Projekte aus dem Bereich der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften vorgestellt. Diese reichen von konkreten Forschungs- bis hin zu Infrastrukturprojekten. Die Veranstaltung ist offen für externe Teilnehmer*innen. Bei Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer (fr.fischer@fu-berlin.de). Der Webex-Link für die Teilnahme lautet: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m7febb557966ef00e9fcd05a6da56fa83
{en} This research colloquium presents international Digital Humanities projects, ranging from concrete research to infrastructure projects. The event is open to external participants. If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Frank Fischer (fr.fischer@fu-berlin.de). The Webex link for participation is: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m7febb557966ef00e9fcd05a6da56fa83
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Semesterplan / Schedule
Do/Thu · 28.10.2021 · 18:15–19:45
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Tessa Gengnagel (Universität zu Köln): »Digital Humanities, or: The Broken Record of Everything« (final version on YouTube)
There are several definitions of the Digital Humanities that shift the focal point of their activities (towards humanities computing or computational humanities; public humanities; new media studies; or the digitality of the humanities in general). Most of them are premised, in one way or another, on the digitization of the ‘record’ ›record‹ of human history and culture. This source material which has served as the systematically indexed base of analysis and study in the humanities since their modern-day manifestation in the 19th century may be referred to as ‘artefacts’›artefacts‹, ‘documents’›documents‹, ‘monuments’ ›monuments‹ or similar and is a crucial component in research. It is not, however, and never has been, the sole subject of the humanities in and of itself.
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- (1) Do the Digital Humanities contribute to a reduction of humanitistic research to a documentary paradigm and if so, how can they enter other areas of humanistic knowledge production?
- (2) How can the digital reproduction of knowledges and extant assumptions about said material account for the silences, contradictions and factual inaccuracies in their “facsimile narratives” »facsimile narratives« (Fafinski 2021)?
- (3) How will the Digital Humanities meet the challenge of increasing calls for the virtual recreation and simulation of the past which seeks to extrapolate an imagined cultural memory from the ‘record’›record‹? A record that is often said – and we will look at examples of such discourses – to include ‘everything’›everything‹.
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(Die Veranstaltung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis.)
