Organized by the University of London’s School of Advance Study, Reframing Failure: Setting the Failure Agenda is a free virtual seminar being held on November 15 (5:00pm GMT). From the event page:
In 2012 Lisa Spiro wrote, ‘Not all experiments succeed as originally imagined, but the digital humanities community recognizes the value of failure in the pursuit of innovation’. A decade later, what does failure mean for the digital humanities community today? If there is value in failure, how do we create the space to fail ‘better’? Join us for a roundtable discussion about the state of failure in digital humanities today.
Speakers:
Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University)
David de Roure (University of Oxford)
Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study)
Anna-Maria Sichani (School of Advanced Study) – ChairSeminar Overview
Most of us recognise that failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour – let alone life – especially for people who work across disciplines. Yet, for something so central to our experience, it often sits at the periphery of our writing, training, and professional discourse. This seminar series explores how we can reframe failure within the digital humanities: the ways we can learn from it, talk about it, and hopefully reconsider our collective relationship to it.
Conceived as a series of conversations, Reframing Failure presents an opportunity to reflect on practice. It welcomes those from within and outside the digital humanities and takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to failure.
Advance registration is required; specific details for accessing the virtual event will be shared with registrations 24 hours in advance.