The Teaching & Learning Center invites 黑料正能量 faculty to a talk by聽David Joseph Wrisley's聽on the genre of the digital project聽and its potential for scholarly and pedagogical reflection in the聽liberal arts institution.聽From a general discussion of some聽exemplary projects carried out in small colleges by teams of聽faculty, students, librarians and technologists, in what might be聽called the humanities 鈥渓aboratory鈥� (Lane), he聽will chart how聽digital methods can evolve from course-embedded experiments to聽larger research projects. Wrisley聽hopes to show that such projects, in聽both process and product, embody the values of a liberal arts聽education in the 21st century: a well-rounded education, social聽and ethical awareness and creative, multidisciplinary synthesis.
Wrisley聽will discuss in detail two course-embedded digital projects聽that I carried out with my students in Beirut: Linguistic聽Landscapes of Beirut and Mapping Beirut Print Culture.聽As we聽will see, projects, like the scholars and institutions that聽embark upon them, grow in stages of increasing digital scholarly聽complexity (ILiADS).聽聽Finally, he聽will point to some attempts to聽build 鈥渃ommunities of practice鈥� among liberal arts colleges,聽and the establishment of lab-like commons and other institutional聽structures that serve as the loci for such project-based local聽knowledge production.