Since the late 1990s, the idea of a digital disruption has colored the methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary imagination of what might be new in the humanities. One perspective on the new looked backward – what digital tools can help us understand the legacy debates, empirical materials, concepts, and methods? Another perspective was new in looking forward – with the ability to transcribe knowledge into data, does digital humanities offer a new way to understand our species life its humanistic destiny? In parallel and accelerated by digital affordances, there a view also emerged that interdisciplinarity would become a norm for digital approaches to the work of the humanities.
As digital technologies continually affect how we construct knowledge, what have the lessons of digital life taught us about the limits, opportunities, and ongoing challenges of digital humanities? Can we still consider the digital humanities an “emerging sub-discipline” in terms of knowledge taxonomies, research classifications and organizational charts? What are the continued impediments to the “transformation” of the humanities propelled by information and computing technologies? Has an emergent digital humanities led a “revolution” or is it just a move towards “automation”? Or is a return to traditional scholarship with a “digital hand” now possible?
If disruptive innovation is understood and practiced by a tech industry as a mechanism to increase the “efficiency” and “spreadability” of the current digital status quo, what space is left for “disruption” in its critical sense? Can multi-voiced counternarratives, often not in the core of digital humanities, point the direction of different paths to the human in a digital world? Can the digital humanities reimagine itself as an inclusive and activist community?
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Head of Department of Mediterranean Studies, Director of Laboratory of Informatics, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
Director of Laboratory of Linguistics of the Southeastern Mediterranean, Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
Director of Laboratory Environmental Archaeology & Preventive Conservation, Director of Laboratory of Archaeometry, Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
Assistant Professor of Department of Mediterranean Studies, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. 2022 In-Person Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Duhok University, Duhok, Iraq
North Carolina State University, USA
The University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Kevin is a current graduate student at The New School for Social Research
The 2022 Online-Only Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Communication University of China, China
Louisiana State University, USA
Baylor University, USA
Claremont Graduate University, USA
Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Georgia
PhD in English Literature the University of Glasgowin
Department of Mediterranean Studies
School of Humanities, University of the Aegean
