21-24 October 2016
Digital Humanities Laboratory, Northwestern University
Chicago
> Agenda/Programme
FRIDAY, 10/21 – Kaplan Institute
8:30 Coffee/breakfast
9:00-11:00 Reports from national teams and topical working groups.
11:30-12:30 Digital humanities presentation and discussion with scholars and staff at Northwestern working on digital humanities.
12:30-1:30 Lunch (catered)
1:30-2:30 Review of rubrics and thematic sections.
2:45-3:45 Continued discussion from morning of Transcultura Laboratory proposal and options for developing U.S. participation.
4:00-6:00 Jennifer Wild, University of Chicago, Found Object: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities, Harris Hall, Room 108
SATURDAY, 10/22
8:30 coffee/breakfast
9:00-11:30 In-depth discussion of two or three thematic sections, reviewing scope, organization, and authors. Lessons to be drawn for the larger project.
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-3:30 Goals and work plans for 2017.
3:30-5:00 Walk over to the Block Museum
7:00 Dinner for scholars participating in the meeting, the Stained Glass
SUNDAY, 10/23
11:00-4:00 Visits to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Du Sable Foundation Museum
MONDAY, 10/24
6-7:30 Presentation on project to Center for Historical Studies and Buffet Institute for Global Studies, discussion with Northwestern scholars of the larger historiographical issues at play in the Dictionary of Transatlantic Cultural History