remarks (DH@30, UVa)
[Last week, it was my privilege to participate in an event celebrating the anniversary of centers and institutes that have...
Bethany Nowviskie
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a tribute to Stéfan Sinclair
I m sharing here remarks I offered today at the 2022 DH Unbound conference. The occasion was a plenary roundtable honoring...
cultural memory and the peri-pandemic library
[Late last month, I was honored to deliver the annual James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education at Washington...
foreword (to the past)
[Congratulations to Melissa Terras and Paul Gooding on the publication of an important new collection of essays entitled Electronic Legal...
change us, too
[The following is a brief talk I gave at the opening plenary of RBMS 2019, a meeting of the Rare...
from the grass roots
[This is a cleaned-up version of the text from which I spoke at the 2019 conference of Research Libraries UK,...
how the light gets in
I took a chance on a hackberry bowl at a farmer’s market—blue-stained and turned like a drop of water. It’s...
reconstitute the world
[What follows is the text of a talk I gave in two different contexts last week, as Reconstitute the World:...
5 spectra for speculative knowledge design
[Last weekend, I joined the inspiring, interdisciplinary Ecotopian Toolkit gathering hosted by Penn s Program in Environmental Humanities. (How lucky was I? We even got...
we raise our voices
[Crossposted Statement on US Administration Budget Proposal from the Director s Desk at the Digital Library Federation blog.] Last night, the...
iv. coda: speculative computing (2004)
[Shannon Mattern s wry observation that speculative now seems to be the universal prefix got me thinking about time and unpredictability, and reminded me...
inauguration day
January 20th has inaugurated the worst and longest case of writer’s block of my life. I hate to write, under...
open invitations
[These are unedited remarks from the closing plenary of the 2016 DLF Forum, written about 15 minutes before it began,...
speculative collections
[This is the text of a talk I gave last week, as Speculative Collections and the Emancipatory Library, to close...
alternate futures/usable pasts
[While I m cleaning up the text of a talk I gave at Harvard s Hazen Symposium last week (see #HazenatHarvard or Merrilee s...
everywhere, every when
This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing),...
capacity through care
[This is the draft of an invited contribution to a forum on care that will appear in Debates in the...
hallowmas
[Trigger warning: miscarriage.] Ten years ago today, I lost the baby that might have come after my son, and not...
on capacity and care
[This is the blended and edited text of two talks I gave last week. One, titled On Capacity and Care, ...
supporting practice in community
[Here s a cleaned-up version of brief remarks I made in a panel discussion on Cultivating Digital Library Professionals, at Tuesday s...
a game nonetheless
[I recently had the pleasure of responding to a creative and beautifully grounded talk by Kevin Hamilton of the University...
open and shut
I recently collaborated on a project a little outside the ordinary for me: a case study for a chapter in...
all at once
Thirteen years ago, I was a graduate student in English literature when the Twin Towers collapsed, a fireball erupted from...
charter-ing a path
[Cross-posted from the Re:Thinking blog at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I m honored to serve as...
speculative computing & the centers to come
[This is a short talk I prepared for a panel discussion today with Brett Bobley, Ed Ayers, and Stephen Robertson,...
johannes factotum & the ends of expertise
[This—more or less—is the text of a keynote talk I delivered last week in Atlanta, at the 2014 DLF Forum:...
neatline & visualization as interpretation
[This post is re-published from an invited response to a February 2014 MediaCommons question of the week: How can we better...
a kit for hosting Speaking in Code
[Cross-posted from the Re:Thinking blog at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources, where I m honored to be serving...
digital humanities in the anthropocene
[Update: I ve made low-res versions of my slides and an audio reading available for download on Vimeo, Alex Gil has...
anthropocene abstract
I am deeply honored to have been invited to give a plenary lecture at this year s Digital Humanities conference, planned...