[mapping the digital humanities] by jentery sayers and matthew wilson

for the information school research conversation series @ the UW

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The history of the project and the beginnings of a digital humanities course:

"Geolocating Compositional Strategies at the Virtual University" (co-composed by Jentery and Curtis Hisayasu, also in English) in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Conversations and collaborations during the Simpson Center's 2007 Institute on the Public Humanities, where both of us were fellows.
2008-2009 Huckabay Fellowship, where planning for the course will officially begin in Winter 2009, under the mentorship of Phillip Thurtle (Comparative History of Ideas) and Sarah Elwood (Geography).
Primary goal: Develop curricula where students can synthesize technical skills in computing with critical practices.

What's next?

Planning the course in Winter 2009, developing modules for in-class instruction, selecting course materials, and gathering input from undergraduates on what they want from such a course.
Teaching the course in Spring 2009, as CHID 498: "Project-Based Approaches to Mapping the Digital Humanities."
Presenting course materials and findings at conferences, through HASTAC.org, and in anthologies on the digital humanities.

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