The Hermeneutics in Real Life Project holds its 2022-2023 online panel, Are the Digital Humanities an Oxymoron? this Saturday, November 19th from 2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (7-8:30 PM, GMT). Below is Fernando Nascimento’s (Bowdoin College) description of the session:
Digital technologies have increasingly occupied spaces in contemporary societies, and higher education institutions are no exception. Such impact is visible in the number of students turning their attention from humanities to STEM courses and epistemological discussions concerning how new digital technologies can impact the humanities. Such discussions have been treated within the context of the so-called digital humanities that have aroused heated arguments among educators, humanists, philosophers, and technologists for decades. For many, the digital humanities are an oxymoron that erodes the epistemological identity of the humanities with the application of computer science and STEM methodologies generating a position of insurmountable dualism. From this consequential background, this HinRL meeting intends to explore how hermeneutics contributes to thinking about alternatives to transform the strict dualism into a productive dialectic between new digital techniques and the irreplaceable contributions of the humanities.

Reserve Zoom space by registering for November 19th’s session at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWEvTo7aFXTnR0aI4WyK_32Sj0wlTmwNzPZezGPlkx7YoUeg/viewform
Roundtable participants include experts in Hermeneutics and the Digital Humanities, such as:
Fernando Nascimento: Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bowdoin College. Co-editor (with Walter Sales) Ética, Identidade a Reconhecimento no obra de Paul Ricoeur [Ethics, Identity, and Recognition in Pal Ricoeur’s Woks]. Editoria PUC-Rio & Ediçoes, Loyala 2013).
James E. Dobson: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). Dobson is the author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (University of Illinois Press, 2019).
Karin Van Es: Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and Project Lead in the Humanities at Utrecht Data School, Netherlands. Van Es is the co-editor of The Datafield Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2017).
Luca Possati: Researcher and Lecturer, University of Porto, Portugal. Possati is the author of The Algorithmic Unconscious. How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge, 2021).
Laura Chapot: Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of German Studies and Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). Chapot’s research investigates the the co-evolution of of literary and computational culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Alberto Romele: Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, Institute of Communication and Media, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. Romele is the author of Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies (Routledge, 2020).
The panel session is free to join. Full details for the roundtable can be found here: https://www.hinrl.org/conversation-sessions. Registration ensures an email with the event link attached. We encourage registrant participation via post-panel discussion. A link to our prior sessions, including John Arthos’s panel titled, The Task Educators in a Time of War and Violence, can be found here: https://www.hinrl.org/prior-conversations.
If you know someone or an organization who might find this event helpful, please send this information! For more information, visit http://www.hinrl.org or email questions to Joseph Brentlinger at josbrent@iu.edu.
Below are time equivalencies for 2PM Eastern, to help planning for the event. You will receive an email with the event link beforehand, and an invitation to create a calendar event. 2PM Eastern is:
9PM in Kyiv, 9PM in Cairo, 8AM in Wellington, 3AM in Hong Kong, 4PM in Buenos Aires, 6AM in Sydney, 12:30AM in New Delhi, and 4AM in Tokyo.
We hope to see you on the 19th of November.
Best regards,  Joseph Brentlinger, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Rhetoric in the Digital Humanities  Department of English  Indiana University, Bloomington

The Hermeneutics in Real Life Project holds its 2022-2023 online panel, Are the Digital Humanities an Oxymoron? this Saturday, November 19th from 2-3:30 PM Eastern Time (7-8:30 PM, GMT). Below is Fernando Nascimento’s (Bowdoin College) description of the session:
Digital technologies have increasingly occupied spaces in contemporary societies, and higher education institutions are no exception. Such impact is visible in the number of students turning their attention from humanities to STEM courses and epistemological discussions concerning how new digital technologies can impact the humanities. Such discussions have been treated within the context of the so-called digital humanities that have aroused heated arguments among educators, humanists, philosophers, and technologists for decades. For many, the digital humanities are an oxymoron that erodes the epistemological identity of the humanities with the application of computer science and STEM methodologies generating a position of insurmountable dualism. From this consequential background, this HinRL meeting intends to explore how hermeneutics contributes to thinking about alternatives to transform the strict dualism into a productive dialectic between new digital techniques and the irreplaceable contributions of the humanities.

Reserve Zoom space by registering for November 19th’s session at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWEvTo7aFXTnR0aI4WyK_32Sj0wlTmwNzPZezGPlkx7YoUeg/viewform
Roundtable participants include experts in Hermeneutics and the Digital Humanities, such as:
Fernando Nascimento: Assistant Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bowdoin College. Co-editor (with Walter Sales) Ética, Identidade a Reconhecimento no obra de Paul Ricoeur [Ethics, Identity, and Recognition in Pal Ricoeur’s Woks]. Editoria PUC-Rio & Ediçoes, Loyala 2013).
James E. Dobson: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). Dobson is the author of Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology (University of Illinois Press, 2019).
Karin Van Es: Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and Project Lead in the Humanities at Utrecht Data School, Netherlands. Van Es is the co-editor of The Datafield Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2017).
Luca Possati: Researcher and Lecturer, University of Porto, Portugal. Possati is the author of The Algorithmic Unconscious. How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge, 2021).
Laura Chapot: Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of German Studies and Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA). Chapot’s research investigates the the co-evolution of of literary and computational culture in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Alberto Romele: Assistant Professor of Digital Communication, Institute of Communication and Media, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. Romele is the author of Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies (Routledge, 2020).
The panel session is free to join. Full details for the roundtable can be found here: https://www.hinrl.org/conversation-sessions. Registration ensures an email with the event link attached. We encourage registrant participation via post-panel discussion. A link to our prior sessions, including John Arthos’s panel titled, The Task Educators in a Time of War and Violence, can be found here: https://www.hinrl.org/prior-conversations.
If you know someone or an organization who might find this event helpful, please send this information! For more information, visit http://www.hinrl.org or email questions to Joseph Brentlinger at josbrent@iu.edu.
Below are time equivalencies for 2PM Eastern, to help planning for the event. You will receive an email with the event link beforehand, and an invitation to create a calendar event. 2PM Eastern is:
9PM in Kyiv, 9PM in Cairo, 8AM in Wellington, 3AM in Hong Kong, 4PM in Buenos Aires, 6AM in Sydney, 12:30AM in New Delhi, and 4AM in Tokyo.
We hope to see you on the 19th of November.
Best regards,  Joseph Brentlinger, Ph.D.  Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Rhetoric in the Digital Humanities  Department of English  Indiana University, Bloomington