Slides from my talk at Digital Humanities 2014

1. OtherWorlds, Other DHs
Roopika Risam
Salem State University
@roopikarisam

2. “Let us be excellent dancers to one another.The
world is a messy place, covered under the big tent
of a capitalism flirting with authoritarianism,
plagued by AK-47s and countless lunacies; but also
agency and promise, the dance halls of
communities.”
–Alex Gil, “The (Digital) Library of Babel

3. “Around DH in 80 Days is a multi-institutional,
interdisciplinary Digital Humanities collaboration
that seeks to introduce new and veteran audiences
to the global field of DH scholarly practice by
bringing together current DH projects from around
the world.” – Around DH in 80 Days

10. “Behind this problem of defining Digital
Humanities (what we are and what we do) there
is an additional now ineludible problem ‘who is
we?’”
-Isabel Galina, “IsThere Anybody OutThere?
Building a Global Digital Humanities
Community”

13. “But perhaps the most urgent issue is to stop
regarding the methodological and the socio-
cultural questions as separate. In other words,
to stop thinking…that the digital humanities
were born in a vacuum.”
–Domenico Fiormonte, “Towards a Cultural
Critique of Digital Humanities”

14. “[English] has managed to stay, not only in
formal and official functions; it has indigenized
and grown local roots. It has begun to thrive and
to produce innovative, regionally distinctive
forms and uses of its own in contact with
indigenous languages and cultures.”
-Edgar Schneider, Postcolonial English

15. “Errors [in English] may be thought of as a kind
of foreign accent, only in writing instead of
speech.”
-Illona Leki, Understanding ESLWriters: A Guide
forTeachers

16. “Difference is not our deficit; it’s our operating
system.”
-Fiona Barnett, HASTAC Mission Statement

17. What is your digital humanities accent?

18. References
• Allama Iqbal Urdu Cyber Library
• Arab Image Foundation
• Around DH in 80 Days
• Barnett, Fiona. “HASTAC Mission Statement.”
• Bichitra: OnlineTagoreVariorium
• Digitizing Chinese Englishmen
• Fiormonte, Domenico. “Towards a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities.”
• Galina, Isabel. “IsThere Anybody OutThere? Building a Global Digital Humanities Community.”
• Gil,Alex. “The (Digital) Library of Babel”
• Leki, Ilona. Understanding ESLWriters.
• Schneider, Edgar. Postcolonial English.
• Tombouctou Manuscripts Project