Advanced Seminar: DIgital Frontiers in History

HISTORY 5887

Can digital technologies offer new ways to rethink historical narratives? Is DH the future of the humanities and of history as a profession? Can DH and critical inquiry be brought together? This course explores the history, present, and future of digital humanities (DH) to seek responses to these questions. From its origins in the Cold War to its rise to fame in the 1990s, the digital turn in the humanities has garnered excitement and support as well as critique and even disavowal from historians. In this course, we will examine the debates in the field of DH and learn about new ways in which historians are using digital tools for academic research as well as public outreach and activism. The course will be divided into two parts. The first half of the course will be devoted to understanding the historical growth and the present status of the field. In the second half, students will be learning basic digital tools to conduct research. The purpose of the course is not to turn historians into coders; it is to understand what codes can do for historians. Each student must also register for 49IR Section 04.
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM

Section 01

Advanced Seminar: Digital Frontiers in History
INSTRUCTOR: Kastor, Kuzuoglu
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