Spring Events: Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies
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Event Name: Spring Events: Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies
Sponsor/Host: Hagop Kevorkian Center NYU
Location: Virtual
Dates: Thursdays on March 4, March 18, April 1, April 15, and April 22
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Schedule:
Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: DIGITAL DATA GATHERING & CHANGING WAYS OF KNOWING I: WITNESSING + PROOF + HUMAN RIGHTS
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021
Speakers: Hadi Al Khatib (Syrian Archive), Samira Koujok (Columbia University), Lorenzo Pezzani (Goldsmiths, University of London), and discussant Jillian York (EFF)
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Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: DIGITAL DATA GATHERING & CHANGING WAYS OF KNOWING II: SOCIAL MEDIA AFTERLIVES
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Speakers: Yakein Abdelmagid (Research Strategist), Marc Owen Jones (HBKU), Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge), and discussant Adel Iskandar (SFU)
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Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE I: CRITICAL MAPPING & COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021
Speakers: Majd Al-Shihabi (Systems Design Engineer), Nermin Elsherif (CHEurope), Ghazal Jafari (University of Virginia), and discussant Timur Hammond (Syracuse University)
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Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE II: VISUALIZATION & DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021
Speakers: Ahmad Barclay (Architect), Ahmad El-Gharbie’ (American University of Beirut), Fabiola Hanna (The New School) and discussant Hatim El-Hibri (George Mason University)
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Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: FUTURE DIGITAL RESEARCH ON/IN/FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Speakers: Akram Khater (NC State University), Marina Rustow (Princeton University), David Joseph Wrisley (NYU), and Farès el-Dahdah (Rice University)
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This year long series of workshops starts from a simple premise:
What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age?
This question cuts across the ways we consume culture, digest news, carry out politics, and craft ourselves. This series is a call for researchers to account for the ever increasingly digital world in which we live. In order to better activate our scholarship we must reimagine our methods, modes of collaboration, and how to participate in these quickly changing digital landscapes.
Many junior scholars are now working across a digital multimedia landscape and they are pushing the genres of storytelling, engagement, augmentation – thus changing the scales and shapes of their scholarship. Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies addresses threads from the Digital Humanities (DH), but also from an array of other ambiguous buzzwords: “Digital Scholarship,” “Public Humanities,” “Digital Publishing,” “Big Data.” At stake in changing methodologies are a range of interconnected issues that amount to seismic shifts in how we deepen, develop, and disseminate our research. Indeed, at present, the perils/promise of our digital age are exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced the most basic scholarly activities of teaching and research into online-compatible modalities – and ongoing dissent and protest in the Middle East (and around the world) where digital devices become appendages of how we capture, circulate, and remake the world.
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