UIC Digital Humanities Featured Guest Speaker: Dr. Stephen Brier [3 Parts]
The University of Illinois at Chicago, the UIC Institute for the Humanities, and the UIC Digital Humanities Working Group presents...
Featured Guest Speaker:
Dr. Stephen Brier
Senior Academic Technology Officer, Professor, Ph.D.; The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
"Doing Digital Humanities In A Large, Urban Public University"
What is the Digital Humanities (DH) and what role should it play in research, teaching, and learning in a large, urban public university like UIC? This presentation will explore the evolution and maturation of DH work in the U.S. over the past half dozen years, focusing on:
Several foundational texts in the DH field, The ways DH has begun to reshape and reimagine the forms and presentation of academic research, How DH has helped launch an emerging reconsideration of hoary academic processes such as peer review and academic promotion decisions...