Hi all,
I’m writing to share registration details for the remaining DHRH seminar sessions of the Reframing Failure series.
If you’d like to attend, please register so that you can receive the correct Zoom details.
All are welcome!
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Reframing Failure Seminar Series
Most of us recognise that failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour - let alone life - especially for people who work across disciplines. Yet, for something so central to our experience, it often sits at the periphery of our writing, training, and professional discourse. The Reframing Failure seminar series explores how we can reframe failure within the digital humanities: the ways we can learn from it, talk about it, and hopefully reconsider our collective relationship to it.
Conceived as a series of conversations, Reframing Failure presents an opportunity to reflect on practice. It welcomes those from within and outside the digital humanities and takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to failure.
Reframing Failure is a virtual seminar series hosted by the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. If you have any questions about the series, please email the facilitators Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay at digitalhumanities@sas.ac.uk.
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Seminar 2: DH broken - Between experimentation and degradation
Wednesday 25 January 2023 at 17:00 GMT
In digital humanities, things break. All the time. Whether a project has come to the end of its life or is an early prototype, ‘brokenness’ is something digital humanities practitioners will need to address. What can we learn from these encounters with brokenness and how can that shape future projects? Panellists include:
Seminar 3: Rejected - failed funding bids, project proposals and job applications
Wednesday 8 March 2023 at 17:00 GMT
Rejection is an essential part of the current academic landscape and everyone has a collection of failed funding bids, project proposals and job applications. What can we learn from these rejections? Panellists include:
Seminar 4: It’s complicated: collaborations and partnerships
Thursday 23 March 2023 at 17:00 GMT
A common challenge for digital humanities projects - and a place where many stumble - is managing collaborations across disciplines, cultures, and communities of practice. These differences raise questions of translation, inclusivity, and workplace norms for digital humanities practitioners. Panellists include:
Seminar 5: Communicating failure
Thursday 11 May 2023 at 17:00 GMT
Failure can be challenging to talk about, especially in the formal publication venues that count for researcher’s career advancement. What can we do to expose the ‘messiness’ of digital research when we discuss our work? Panellists include:
Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 17:00 GMT
If failure forms an essential part of scholarly practice, what comes after failure? How can national organisations encourage failing productively? Are there alternative approaches to research, such as ‘slow scholarship’ or ‘failure as methodology’, that can be integrated into our own research methods? Panellists include: