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If you are interested in joining an HI Working Research Group, please contact one of the directors. *go to ADDRESSING THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES WRG Addressing the Digital Humanities WRG DirectorsUniversity Professor Diana Taylor Dr. Michael Stoller ***** Addressing the Digital Humanities WRG DescriptionDigital technology has begun to reshape the way humanists do their work. It is changing the way we conduct our research and the way we publish the results. It is changing the way we teach and the way our students learn. It offers us new ways to communicate with one another and new ways to collaborate. And it challenges us to find ways to preserve what we create, as our work takes place in a technological environment of software and hardware whose inevitable obsolescence gives a new fragility to everything we create. The humanities are no longer the exclusive domain of the note card and the printed page, and humanists need to approach the growing role of digital technology in their work in a thoughtful and prudent manner. "Addressing the Digital Humanities" will bring together a broad range of humanists and technologists from across the university to discuss the role and implication of digital technology in the work we do. We will consider the many ways that the digital is changing academic notions of knowledge production, dissemination, and evaluation. We will examine its impact on pedagogy, on publishing and on other forms of scholarly communication and collaboration. And we will consider the available methods for archiving and preserving our work in the face of technological change. The group will meet twice each semester over a two year period, once in closed session and once as a public round-table discussion open to the broader community.
The History of Science WRG DirectorsMyles W. Jackson Matthew Stanley ***** The History of Science WRG DescriptionThe New York City History of Science Working Group sponsors, organizes, and publicizes research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Its research workshop meets monthly to discuss and revise work-in-progress of local and visiting scholars. It also co-sponsors a lecture series with the New York Academy of Sciences, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. Details can be found at http://nychistoryofscience.org/.
The Lucrece Project WRG DirectorsJohanna Devereaux Sarah Ostendorf The collaborative, interdisciplinary process of The Lucrece Project is an experiment in working methods that will shape participants' intellectual and creative thinking throughout their careers. Please visit the official website at: http://thelucreceproject.com/. ***** The Lucrece Project WRG DescriptionThe Lucrece Project Working Research Group gathers graduate students from across NYU and the consortium universities to explore the borders between traditionally "creative" and traditionally "academic" work. Members engage in interdisciplinary collaborations focusing on the story of Lucrece, a foundational myth of Western culture that is broad enough to invite many different kinds of work, and a story that encompasses many kinds of border crossings: of genre, media, place, time, history, sexuality, and morality. Members of The Lucrece Project are graduate students from a variety of fields, such as literature, history, the visual and performing arts, law, women's studies, and more. Aiming to challenge the often artificial boundaries between artistic and academic work and thought, members work in small groups, each of which will develop a project over the course of the year addressing questions of disciplinary border crossings through the story of Lucrece. The projects will take many forms, arising out of the different ideas and working methods of the very different fields represented by the participants. In addition to working on small group projects, members meet once a month to discuss not only various renditions of the Lucrece story, but also the experience of working in this intensively collaborative, cross-field way. We are as interested in process as in product, and one of the principal aims of the group is to explore, challenge, and expand our existing ideas about how we think and develop our work. ***** The Lucrece Project WRG ActivitiesDetails about official activites and ongoing meetings for the 2011-12 year can be found at: http://thelucreceproject.com/?p=2011-2012
Reading Freud as Scientist and Humanist WRG DirectorsProfessor Lewis Aron Clinical Assistant Professor Shireen R.K. Patell ***** Reading Freud as Scientist and Humanist WRG DescriptionAmong Freud’s greatest achievements is the tension that he sustained between science and humanism. Revisiting Freud as a literary humanist promises to yield fresh perspectives on psychoanalysis and reinvigorate its presence in the humanities. The purpose of this Working Research Group is to take a fresh look at the writings of Sigmund Freud, in the original, in various languages, in new translation, and across academic disciplines. This WRG will bring together scholars (faculty and graduate students) from a wide range of disciplines, including comparative literature, religious studies, performance studies, gender and sexuality, German Studies, Africana Studies, and practicing psychoanalytic clinicians, in a series of meetings to discuss select papers and books by Freud in depth and detail with a focus on their current relevance. We are thus seeking to create a forum that allows contributions reciprocally and bi-directionally between psychoanalysis and the humanities. ***** Reading Freud as Scientist and Humanist WRG ActivitiesSymposia schedule for 2011-12 academic year TBA. Among the faculty who participated last year:
Theorizing Sound Writing WRG DirectorsAssociate Professor Deborah Kapchan Assistant Professor Jason Stanyek ***** Listening, one enters. Writing, one hears, observes and, above all translates. Listening, I am drawn into a world where time itself fluctuates, inhabited by sound, transported, perhaps entranced. Writing, I seek to arrest time, to capture the ephemeral, to gift it to others. Theorizing Sound Writing WRG DescriptionThis working group attends to listening and auditory practices at large in order to pose new questions about how we know, learn and represent knowledge and experience in the academy. We proceed from the assumption that sound writing—writing about sound and writing that is sound—has much to contribute to a dialogue about the role of the public intellectual at this juncture of American and global history. How might we best prepare our students to represent the radical changes of our world in public and critical genres? And what does attention to listening—deep listening to our sonic environment—have to teach us about such inscriptive practices? Modernity is often characterized by the division of the senses into discrete (and often impoverished) modalities. Writing in this scenario is equated with the rational faculty, somehow separate from the emotions. Yet in the case of writing about sound the senses may be reconnected in unexpected ways. Both music and writing shape public sensibilities; both give access to the affective lives of others and foster collective imagination. Sound also exceeds writing, necessitating the conceptualization of other ways of formulating sound knowledge. Scholars interested in music and in soundscapes more broadly have a particular vantage point on representation. Music, many would argue, is not just another 'language,' but another way of being in the world, and thus necessitates particular forms of somatic attention as well as corresponding somatic representations. How to define and then instill this somatic attention in students of culture and translate it into representations? How to conceive new forms of sense-based knowledge transmission in the academy? How would these be structured and evaluated? In this workshop, we look closely at the process whereby 1) listening structures perception, 2) perception structures the imagination, and 3) the imagination is given a second life in mediated form. In "theorizing sound writing," we also write sound theory into being. ***** Theorizing Sound Writing WRG ActivitiesWhat: Hillel Schwartz on "Embouchure: Sounding out Sound Studies throught the Lips of Laennec, Schopoenhauer, Freeman, Wittgenstein, and Snow."
Translation Studies Across the University WRG DirectorsProfessor Emily Apter Professor Jane Tylus Assistant Professor Hala Halim ***** Translation Studies Across the University WRG DescriptionTranslation implies a carrying over or across: in short, an act of bridging. And yet this act of bridging that is vital for the understanding of cultures and languages not our own is frequently minimized or overlooked. Particularly in the United States, translation has rarely been a priority for the academy, publishers, or grant agencies. And particularly with respect to non-European languages, the project of translation calls on not only extraordinary expertise but extraordinary sensitivities to differing dynamics across cultures. This working research group builds on a number of activities and projects already happening at NYU in the hope of connecting translators, historians and scholars of translation across disciplines (music, linguistics, comparative literature, and a variety of national languages). It will work with partners and co-sponsors from other universities, presses, and cultural institutions to host a series of events that will serve to bring translation and translators from the shadows into the limelight. We will emerge from next year’s events with a plan of action to engage universities, high schools, publishers, and cultural centers in 1) making translation a national priority, 2) educating, identifying, and funded talented translators sensitive to nuances of cultural, social, and religious difference; and 3) shaping new curricula and canons for American universities and schools in a world significantly altered since 2001. |
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