What Makes History Digital?: Why (and How) Digital History is Happening Now, Wesleyan University via Zoom, May 6, 2022, 12:00–1:30 pm

History is made with data. Historians turn stories, records, and objects into facts, events, and narratives. But something has changed. The wide variety of new tools for data collection, organization, preservation, and visualization referred to as digital have opened up new debates, calls for theorization, and methods workshops that can overwhelm historians who wonder whatever happened to just doing history?

A virtual roundtable discussion on what digital history means for history celebrates three recent collaborative publications: Silke Schwandt's Digital Methods in the Humanities, Stephen Robertson's Models of Argument-Driven Digital History, and Laura Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf's Digital Medieval Studies.

The 45-minute roundtable will be followed by 45 minutes of open discussion.