RE: Humanities Explores Digital Media in Academia
Organized by students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Re: Humanities was a two-day symposium in Fall 2010 that featured presentations by undergraduate scholars interested in the effects of digital media on academia. The project was covered in the New York Times.
Exploring topics as diverse as digital archivalism, pop media, and the (re)tooling of textual analysis, the event seeks to develop a better understanding of of this emerging field by examining its influence on traditional scholarship as well as its potential for transforming academia. Participants included: Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Chair of the Media Studies Department at Pomona, Amanda French, Coordinator for THATCamp at the Center for History and New Media, and recent grads and undergrads at Brown, Bryn Mawr, Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, and Swarthmore.
