Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Towards a Purpose and a Direction. Keynote for European Association for Digital Humanities (Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, September 2021)

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Towards a Purpose and a Direction. Keynote for European Association for Digital Humanities (Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, September 2021)

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (6)
Authors: Willard McCarty
Contact information: Willard McCarty: Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London, UK;
Keywords: progress and peril; interdisciplinary relations; human sciences; imagination; conversation; artificial intelligence
Abstract: Practitioners, scholars and practitioner-scholars in digital humanities have much to celebrate. The social, institutional and technical progress made since the field began in the mid 1960s gives abundant cause. It behoves all of us, however, to raise eyes from screen and keyboard to consider more deeply our relation to the other disciplines of the sciences, human, natural and artificial, and to the creative arts. Digital humanities is an adolescent among adults, with little awareness of the intellectual and cultural riches on which it needs to draw in order to take its place among them. It needs to become aware of its own antediluvian past and to consider its possible futures with the help of the arts. No avenue should remain unexplored in a collective effort to imagine what we do not know
Pages: 752–761
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0890
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145395