Season 1: #3 - Alex Gil, Columbia University Libraries

Topics Discussed in this Episode:Digital humanities as an approach that fosters collaboration between faculty, libraries, museums, and galleries.Connecting the reproduction of material texts to the digital realm through textual scholarship and digital libraries.Academic libraries as a space of intellectual praxis.The challenge of creating non-hierarchical spaces within the academy.The limits to collaboration imposed by structures and practices within higher ed institutions.How to support co-construction of knowledge among equals across ranks and job roles.Rethinking the relationship between university and community through collaborative projects like Rikersbot and the Puerto Rico Mapathon.The role of minimal computing in community work.Why it’s easier to do disruptive knowledge work outside of the university.Scholars of color and rockers of the boat within the academy must check every box and do triple the work.Hope for the future of higher ed lies in communities outside of the academy doing work that reconstructs their past and the ability of universities to connect those dots.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Alex Gil Studio@ButlerGroup for Experimental Methods in the Humanitiesarchipelagos journalNew Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory Practice, and Pedagogy by Roopika RisamScholars' Lab, University of VirginiaRikers Story BotPuerto Rico MapathonMinimal ComputingTorn Apart / SeparadosMusic Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.