disciplinary boundaries – THATCamp Piedmont 2012 http://piedmont2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:40:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 An english professor, a programmer, a mathematician, and an anthropologist walk into a bar… http://piedmont2012.thatcamp.org/05/03/an-english-professor-a-programmer-a-mathematician-and-an-anthropologist-walk-into-a-bar/ http://piedmont2012.thatcamp.org/05/03/an-english-professor-a-programmer-a-mathematician-and-an-anthropologist-walk-into-a-bar/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 17:33:16 +0000 http://piedmont2012.thatcamp.org/?p=135 Continue reading →]]>

Groups often define their members (and their opposite Others) with jokes and joking. Jokes (speaking as a folklorist here) can be serious stuff, can lead to real discussions about life, work, the universe, and everything. Is DH a mature enough field to have jokes about its identity? What would those jokes reveal? Could we come up with jokes? Could we tell jokes? Could we have our very own THATCamp standup? What would happen?
www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog/2012/03/22/stand-up-for-digital-humanities/

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