Event Title
A Digital Humanities Partnership with the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Panel D)
Location
Room 409, South Hall
Start Date
30-9-2016 1:15 PM
End Date
30-9-2016 2:45 PM
Description
In this presentation, I describe the results from participating in Sunoikisis at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and how the participation cultivates an introduction to the digital humanities in a graduate rhetoric program. Some of the direct benefits graduate students received from participation in the program were 1) weekly lectures taught live in a Google Hangout chat from classics scholars to showcase digital humanities methods, 2) a semester wide discussion on Homer and the debate over the start of rhetoric as a field of study (using Rachel Knudsen’s Homer and the Origins of Rhetoric as a starting bridge text between both fields for debate and geospatial maps and the Homeric multitext) 3) responsibility for teaching one of the weekly lecture segments and 4) an onsite trip to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. to plan an upcoming course and view material artifacts and use digital humanities tools on site. I also offer specific instructions for anyone else wanting to partner with CHS. Based on our partnership, I ultimately argue that such a partnership offers a more robust view of rhetorical history than the traditional classical rhetoric seminar due to the enhancement of content using digital humanities methods.
A Digital Humanities Partnership with the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Panel D)
Room 409, South Hall
In this presentation, I describe the results from participating in Sunoikisis at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and how the participation cultivates an introduction to the digital humanities in a graduate rhetoric program. Some of the direct benefits graduate students received from participation in the program were 1) weekly lectures taught live in a Google Hangout chat from classics scholars to showcase digital humanities methods, 2) a semester wide discussion on Homer and the debate over the start of rhetoric as a field of study (using Rachel Knudsen’s Homer and the Origins of Rhetoric as a starting bridge text between both fields for debate and geospatial maps and the Homeric multitext) 3) responsibility for teaching one of the weekly lecture segments and 4) an onsite trip to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C. to plan an upcoming course and view material artifacts and use digital humanities tools on site. I also offer specific instructions for anyone else wanting to partner with CHS. Based on our partnership, I ultimately argue that such a partnership offers a more robust view of rhetorical history than the traditional classical rhetoric seminar due to the enhancement of content using digital humanities methods.