Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It's All Falling Apart

The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a whole. What does it mean to work in the humanities right now, and how does the current context shape that work? Reflecting on lessons learned from the socially-engaged digital humanities initiative Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO), as well as running Stanford's Textile Makerspace / YarnLab and cultivating a digital community around #DHmakes, Quinn Dombrowski (Academic Technology Specialist, DLCL / Stanford Libraries) will speak to the value of digital humanities as an avenue for skilling up to meet the needs of the moment.

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Quinn Dombrowski (non-binary, any pronouns are fine) is the Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2018, Quinn’s many DH adventures included supporting the high-performance computing cluster at UC Berkeley, running the DiRT tool directory with support from the Mellon Foundation, writing books on Drupal for Humanists and University of Chicago library graffiti, and working on the program staff of Project Bamboo, a failed digital humanities cyberinfrastructure initiative.

Lunch will begin at 11:45 a.m. for in-person attendees.