Donald J. Waters—Program Officer for Scholarly Communications and Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will be giving a talk on Digital Humanities in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Rockefeller Library) on November 15 at 4 p.m.
Waters is interested in the convergence of digital technologies with humanistic inquiry and how this introduces fresh collaborations, new sets of research, and pedagogical practices into the process of advancing understanding of the human condition.
In this talk, Waters will probe the following questions:
What are the digital humanities?
How are they constituted?
How can they best be integrated into academic institutions, as centers of research and learning?
This talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Location: Digital Scholarship Lab
Date: November 15, 2013
Time: 4 p.m.