In the afternoon the first session I attended was “How is the writing of history changing?” The session began with a Ted Talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel on Google’s n-gram viewer and what we can learn from 5 million books (500 billion words), a topic I’ve also played with here in the…
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THATCamp Switzerland (5a)
This post is a response to several of the graduate students in attendance who, during the lunch break, asked me what I would have discussed in my session on “graduate students and new media” had I not been “occupied.” My answer is that I think we are in a generation of transition in the historical…
THATCAMP Switzerland (6)
After escaping the pirates who took over my session in the morning and finding coffee, I went to the session on mobile computing led by two people from the University of Zurich. The session began with a demonstration of a course developed there several years ago. This particular course is targeted primarily at students to…
THATCamp Switzerland (5)
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…