Founding the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing

Roy Wisbey founds the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at CU

Foundation of the center for literary and linguistic Computing

Professor Roy Wisbey was a pioneer in the field of digital humanities 

Computers and the humanities

Various professional organizations are founded and publications developed to assist scholars interested in the possibilities of using computers in the humanities. 

Series of joint conferences by the ACH and the ALLC

Series of conferences, hosted jointly by the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing since 1989.

IATH: Transforming Digital Humanities Research

IATH is a research institute that combines technology and humanities to explore different aspects of human culture. They develop digital tools and projects to study history, literature, and art. IATH collaborates with scholars, technologists, and cultural institutions to create digital archives and analyze humanities data. Their work has led to influential projects like The William Blake Archive and The Walt Whitman Archive. IATH continues to drive innovation in digital humanities research.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/

Humanities computing is replaced by Digital Humanities

Digital humanities gains recognitiion through the American Counclin of Learnd Societies 

Creation of the term "Digital Humanities"

Unsworth came up with the term "Digital Humanities" as the title of a book referring to the matter.

The original term of Digital Humanities

The real origin of that term [digital humanities] was in conversation with Andrew McNeillie, the original acquiring editor for the Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities. We started talking with him about that book project in 2001, in April,and by the end of November we’d lined up contributors and were discussing thetitle, for the contract. Ray [Siemens] wanted “A Companion to Humanities Computing” as that was the term commonly used at that point; the editorial and marketing folks at Blackwell wanted “Companion to Digitized Humanities.” I suggested “Companion to Digital Humanities” to shift the emphasis away from simple digitization.

Companion to Digital Humanities by Blackwell’s has been published

This is a crucial pubblication for the develop of the studies in DH

The launch of the Digital Humanities Initiative by the National Endowment

The launch in 2006 of the Digital Humanities Initiative by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), then under the chairmanship of Bruce Cole and with leadership provided by Brett Bobley, a charismatic and imaginative individual who doubles as the agency’s CIO. 

Digital Humanities Initiative

Launch led by the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH)

The Queer Technologies Project

The artist Zach Blas addressed queerness directly throughcritical making with his Queer Technologies project.

“For us,” writes Blas with his collaborator cárdenas in an article outlining the work ofQueer Technologies, “Turing is a crucial historical figure for thinking the politics ofdigital technologies from queer and feminist perspectives”

Digital Humanities Initiative became the Office of Digital humanities

The field now coìan be seen as something permanent.

Digital Humanities 2009 conference

 Amanda French ran the numbers and concluded thatnearly half (48 percent) of attendees at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference weretweeting the sessions. By contrast, only 3 percent of MLA convention attendeestweeted; according to French’s data, out of about 7,800 attendees at the MLAconvention only 256 tweeted. Of these, the vast majority were people already associated with digital humanities through their existing networks of followers.

The humanistic disciplines

There is a specific history of the term digital humanities, detailed by my friend (and English scholar) Matthew Kirschenbaum in a 2010 article in the Association of Departments of English Bulletin

A letter "I can’t breathe" by Jarrett Drake

I have watched white co-workers and colleagues in this profession stay complicity silent as state agents slaughter Black people in the streets. I cried when Mike got killed.When Tamir got killed. When Freddie got killed. When Sandra got killed. When Korryn got killed. I cried again when, in each case, the state held no one accountable.  I want to cry right now as I process that yet another Black person, Philando Castile, was taken by the state yet his killer walks free. Another mother buries a son, a partner buries a partner, a daughter buries a father. State assaults on Black boys and men often have a ripple effect of impacting 3x as many Black women and girls, as is the case with Philando. The silence suffocates me in the open air; at work, at conferences, orany where large number of professional archivists congregate.