Digital humanities is an emerging practice involving the use of information technology-based resources and methods in scholarly activities of humanists. On Tuesday, April 7, a distinguished panel will discuss the digital humanities and explore these questions:

• How are digital resources changing the work of the humanist?
• How do we use digital resources to answer intellectual questions? 
• What benefits and challenges are posed by the interdisciplinary nature of digital humanities?
• How should digital work be considered for the purposes of tenure and promotion?
• What impact will the digital humanities have on teaching?

The panel will be moderated by Dean Joe Gordon and will include these Yale faculty:

• Pericles Lewis, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
• Matthew Jacobson, Chair and Professor of American Studies
• George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Library
• Edward Kairiss, Director, ITS Educational Technologies

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library
Lecture Hall

Organized by the Collaborative Learning Center