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15th International Conference of the Institut des Amériques

 

Americas / Europe, Digital Humanities as Shared Space?

Challenges, innovations and perspectives

 

La Rochelle University

18, 19 and 20 October 2017

 

 Overview

 

 This colloquium will examine the evolution of the political, economic, scientific and pedagogical stakes of "digital humanities" within the context of the exchanges between Europe and the Americas. Nearly ten years after the American Council of Learned Societies (2006) report was published, the exponential development of digital activity calls for a critical evaluation of its productions. Universities, research centers, public institutions and private investors support multiple research projects which foster competition between scientific communities and networks. If the United States and Europe occupy a dominant position, Latin America, Africa and Asia’s Pacific front claim their position in the field. Within the French national perimeter, many research teams in the humanities and social sciences (SHS) re-evaluated their disciplinary approaches at the end of the twentieth century. Thus, Latin American Studies have structured the field of specialized scientific information and, in Europe, have been able to develop their own model. As early as the first decade of the twenty-first century, academic and research institutions started dealing with researchers’ archives, written heritage and sound archives, map and photograph databases. Many issues have been successively considered: the valorization of dematerialized contents, pedagogical and didactic transformations, new learning and knowledge regimes, as well as the legal issues induced by new digital practices. The actors involved in these initial actions have developed technical and scientific projects aimed at developing various models that can be reproduced ... These experiments can serve as the basis for a reflection on the dynamics of research and innovation already under way in the field of digital humanities.

 What is at stake in dematerializing and valorizing information extends beyond the mere scientific field. Private companies, public institutions and local authorities are also interested in this development. Depending on these organizations’ purpose (commercial, cultural, industrial, institutional, etc.) and on the origin of their funding, expectations and demands vary, calling for specific responses.

The 2017 conference of the Institute of the Americas proposes to explore the evolutions of practices and knowledge in the field of the human and social sciences closely related to the development of digital techniques and their applications.

This conference could thus organize its reflections around the following avenues:

1) New heuristic tools: the multi-disciplinarity and collaborative dimension in American studies.

2) Political, financial and institutional issues of Digital Humanities in American Studies

3) From the Americas to the Atlantic and the Pacific: transnational studies in the Digital Age

4) The role of legal and management sciences

5) Opening the field to social demand: addressing issues of pedagogy, heritage management, and the mediatization of scientific production

 

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