Terrific, David.
And let me pose this to the entire group: since it looks like Duke, UNC,
UCHRI, and Spelman are all going to be involved with a joint and
video-conferenced reparations and redress conversation (from Thucydides to
the present---held the week of April 7) is this a topic that might have
the kind of massive weight and heft----how multiple societies and
different disciplines, inc the arts, have dealt with issues of recompense
for time memorial and up to the present political situation of descendants
of slaves----as well as timeliness, that we might at least put it on the
table as a possible multi-site project for all of our humanities and
technology projects? I can think of all kinds of usesful ways that the
academy could address this as an archival, communications, and
intellectual issue of substance and enormous scope.
Let me just float this for beginnings, with appreciation that there will
be many other possible content issues involved (and that this may or may
not be of interest to potential funders!)
Best,
Cathy
Cathy N. Davidson
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English
Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Duke University
212 Allen Building
Durham, NC 27708-0003
(919) 684-1964
david theo goldberg <goldberg@uci.edu>
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Hi all
We attended a really interesting presentation on electronic
publishing today by Dan Greenstein, head of California Digital
Library. He is excited to learn of our collective initiative, and
will do what he can to attend at least part of our meeting in June.
Best
David
--David Theo Goldberg Director University of California Humanities Research Institute 307 Administration Irvine CA 92697-3350
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