Over here at @umd_AADHum, we’ve been thinking a lot about what we’ve learned over the past year or so, running both a large fellowship and developing more than a few dozen #BlackDH events and projects during the panny +
In our conversations re what’s next for @umd_AADHum, we find ourselves compulsively avoiding framing our ideas as “we’ve gained insight into x” while adjusting to these times™.
But at the same time, things have indeed changed and it is our job to know that, as well as we can +
But at the same time, things have indeed changed and it is our job to know that, as well as we can +
As well as we can: In balance against our hesitation to lemonade the pandemic, this year we’re doubling down on developing programs and activities that respond to / learn from the complexities of scheduling, hybrid-work, and distant collaboration that characterized last year. +
Last year, we were all moved by the breadth, depth, and sincerity of audience participation at @umd_AADHum events, generating so much community-feeling, sparking so much new #BlackDH thinking, inspired by the intellectual energy of the AADHum scholars and their interlocutors. +
So we’ve been thinking about the smart + generous generativity of last year’s @umd_AADHum gatherings— the relative success of our event formats, & how to bring the insights of those experiences over to how we plan new programs, workshops, & project ideation/creation structures. +
We also seek to remix or remaster what we’ve learned in 8+ years of 5CollDH & @irLhumanities work, the numerous successes and insights inherited fr @umd_AADHum in previous years, the work of @UMD_MITH, and many others. +
How do we honor and support artists & scholars in relation to digital work? In other places I and others have argued for the numerous ways DH properly shares roots with and must always learn from the hard lessons survived and negotiated by ethnic and women and gender studies. +
Yes. But how do we move from critical DH insights around labor, sustainability, community-build, and project accountability (for instance), to new or improved configurations for funding and developing and supporting digital scholarship, both within or alongside institutions? +
So that is the nut we’ve been trying to crack in our moment of pause and evaluation. There are a lot of good models out there, and @umd_AADHum has thus been thinking about how to grow our work, given what we continually learn from our own and others’ experiences. +
Lesson the first. #BlackDH +
Over the next few weeks, @umd_AADHum is rolling out a new slate of programs keyed to the realities of generative and cooperative digital work in the pandemic, which we must also of course understand as the difficult realities of DH participation in general, panny or nah. +
Finally, in other news, I was heartened to see that my horoscope supports how we’ve been thinking about this new journey. Thanks @AppChani! +
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