Libraries co-hosts digital humanities seminar with Folger Shakespeare Library

How do the digital humanities reconfigure our sense of “the archive?” That’s the guiding question behind a weekend seminar in March 2022 at the Libraries that is co-sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. and NC State’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS). The seminar is supported by NC State’s extensive digital technologies infrastructure, which includes the visualization and exhibition spaces at both Hunt and Hill Libraries. 

“Out of the Archives: Digital Projects as Early Modern Research Objects” is organized by Margaret Simon and Christopher Crosbie—both associate professors of English at NC State—and Christopher Warren, an associate professor of English and History at Carnegie Mellon University. The seminar will explore how digital projects reshape our modes of accessing traditional archival objects and the very questions we ask of them.

On Thursday, March 10, 2022, the program will open with a presentation by Anupam Basu of Washington University in St. Louis. The seminar will then span the weekend with in-person events at NC State that mix discussion with hands-on experimentation with digital tools, as participants investigate how digital artifacts become research objects in their own right.

The seminar is supported by NC State’s extensive digital technologies infrastructure, which includes the visualization and exhibition spaces at both Hunt and Hill Libraries. 

Those working in early modern studies, archives, library science, and digital scholarship are invited to apply to participate in “Out of the Archives: Digital Projects as Early Modern Research Objects.”

Watch a short video introducing the seminar here. Apply by Nov. 15 for admission and aid through the Folger online portal here.