Last Spring, the Center for History and New Media ran a Digital Humanities unconference called THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp. The two-day event brought together 75 scholars from around the world to work collaboratively and discuss concerns and solutions relating to digital scholarship. I’m happy to announce that we’re organizing a new THATCamp, to be held June 27-28, 2009 following the DH09 conference being held at nearby University of Maryland. Save the date!
I’m back from an exciting weekend at THATCamp, working through with a wide range of digital humanists. Among us there was shared excitement and pleasure to engage in the type of informal dialogue that a BarCamp-style unconference like THATCamp affords. And given the interest in it, we’ll be doing THATCamp again next year so pay attention here and on the THATCamp blog for further information later in the year.
Jeremy and I will be recording a new episode of THATPodcast that looks at how we organized THATCamp, and discuss how others could use a similar approach for an untraditional conference. Until then, I’d encourage you to browse the website for a full list of campers, the schedule that we made on the day of the conference, and the community blog that campers posted their sessions on before Day 1. Here are some photos from THATCamp below the fold, among others on Flickr.
Building THAT Schedule
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The submission deadline for The Humanities and Technology (bar)Camp is Midnight, Saturday the 15th; you have less than 4 days to submit your proposal! If you’re free the weekend after Memorial Day, send us an application to join a top-notch crew of digital humanists give a range of presentations “from full-blown papers (not many of those, we hope) to software demos to training sessions to debates to discussions of research findings to half-baked rants.” More information is on THATCamp’s website and on twitter.
