My session on graduate students in digital humanities was Occupied! Because it became clear to many at the conference that although 40% of the attendees at THATCamp Switzerland were female, only one of the proposals was by a woman. So, two of the women here at Camp staged a pirate attack on my session and…
THATCamp Switzerland (4)
The final bootcamp session of the day was on “emulators” by Patrick Kammerer of the University of Zurich and the blog Geschichte & Informatik. I picked this session because it’s a topic I know zero about, as one should do at an unconference. If you want to play with a Commodore 64 emulator, you can…
THATCamp Switzerland (3)
In the first bootcamp session after lunch I attended a session led by Stefan Keller (University of Zurich) called “Knowledge Organization and Representation,” which was focused on various information management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, and LitLink (new version launched officially today). Note to self: More than one person has told me I ought to…
THATCamp Switzerland (2)
Our first session, a talk by Prof. Willard McCarty of King’s College, London) turned out to be a “new media” talk, because Prof. McCarty was not feeling well and couldn’t travel to Switzerland–so he spoke on Skype up on a screen at the front of the room. The video feed was very jerky, but the…