Re the Gordian knot:
Richard Burton used his sword - not sure how Colin Farrell managed it
as I've not (yet) seen the movie.
Re below:
this is what we are starting with the Digital Classicist seminar series
- making inroads into the wider Classics community. Only by showing
the research that goes on within the DH sphere can we address
this challenge. This is why the getting panels together for
*mainstream* conferences such as CA are so important.
Simon
> I agree with 90% of what you say about the DH, Hugh; I just think there
> is scope to present this as a challenge, as reason for hope and a call
> to improve rather than as a self-perpetuating, insular, exo-phobic
> discipline. (And I may be guilty of using you as a straw man here,
> because after all doesn't academia as a whole often get attcked for
> being "self-perpetuating"?) To come back full circle, I think the
> biggest challenge we have, inside DH as well as in our "other"
> departments like Classics, is to convince ourselves and our colleagues
> that what we do is research. How many papers at any DH conference of
> your choice, that were given by classicists, would have been recognised
> as research papers in the context of a Classics conference? That's the
> line I'd like to cross. I'd like to give the same paper at DH and at the
> CA, and not be seen as "quaint" by either audience. ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriel
>
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