Tuesday 4 September 2012 – William J. Turkel – Doing History in Real Time workshop

Professor William J. Turkel (University of Western Ontario)
Doing History in Real Time 
A workshop sponsored by the IHR Seminar in Digital History
 

The IHR Seminar in Digital History would like to announce a special event. We are sponsoring a workshop to kick-off the Autumn 2012 seminar series that will be hosted by William J. Turkel, one of the most interesting and innovative digital historians working today. This event will allow digital humanists, historians, and anyone with an interest in the changing meanings of historical analysis and discourse in the twenty-first century an opportunity to approach these issues through both demonstrations and discussions.

Workshop Description: In A New Culture of Learning (2011), Thomas and Seely Brown argue that the traditional view of teaching and learning ‘presumes the existence of knowledge that is both worth communicating and doesn’t tend to change very much over time’. In this workshop we explore the degree to which either assumption is valid now. We also discuss some of the new kinds of computational tools or instruments which historians may want to construct and use. These have the potential to make us better navigators of our contemporary (digital) world, and will allow us to continue to assert that a nuanced knowledge of the past is the best guide to present conduct.

Bill Turkel is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario and Project Director, Digital Infrastructure for the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. He does computational history, Big History, STS, physical computing, desktop fabrication and electronics. He programs whenever he gets the chance, and is experimenting regularly with analog electronics. There is more information about his work on his personal website.

Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Senate House, South block, Ground floor

Date: Tuesday 4 September 2012

Time: 5:15 PM (BST=GMT+1)

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