Schreibman, Ping Huang, et al | Critical DH: Pedagogies, Projects, Practices
Channel: MSU Digital Humanities
Date: 15/05/2023

Susan Schreibman | Maastricht University, Netherlands (Presenting)
Marianne Ping Huang | Aarhus University, Denmark(Presenting)
Costas Papadopoulos | Maastricht University, Netherlands
Walter Scholger | Gratz University, Austria
Koralijka Kuzman Šlogar | Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia

Issues of Social Justice, broadly conceived, are increasingly being included as a component in digital humanities scholarship or are the reason d’etre of the research itself. Equally, issues of ethics, privacy, and copyright are taking on greater prominence in DH scholarship. This short paper focuses on a new course for the #dariahTeach platform, Social Justice in the Digital Humanities: Diversifying the Curriculum. The inspiration for this research came out of initiatives underway at many institutions to diversify the curriculum, and the recognition that there is a growing body of scholarship in the digital humanities that is being conceived within a social justice framework, both theoretically as well as in the values embedded in its execution. The goal of this research is twofold: to create a community-driven course which highlights existing work in the area, as well as to encourage future scholarship by highlighting projects and processes from around the globe through a series of case studies, augmented by theory and relevant concepts (eg social justice, postcolonial and decolonial theory, diversifying the curriculum initiatives, data feminism). This short paper will provide the opportunity to problematize some of the issues and challenges of working within a social justice framework, highlight existing best practice, as well as to discuss issues of ethics, privacy, and copyright. The additional duty of care when developing and disseminating content created by or about marginalised, indigenous, or minority populations, and/or those whose ethics and traditions differ from dominant western values will be highlighted. And lastly, how these considerations are taken into account by practitioners who do research in reparative ways when dealing with contested histories and/or material cultures will be discussed.

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