Whole Minds

Their interview discusses:

• Strategies for interdisciplinary studies and pedagogy, in particular the importance of considering environmental sciences as humanities scholars, and vice versa
• How the field of the blue humanities developed, and Professor Cohen’s role
• The metaphors and the realities of the ocean
• Professor Cohen’s latest project on representations and imaginations of the Monterey Bay in the 1930s and the 1990s

Links/Resources

• J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Storm:_Steam-Boat_off_a_Harbour%27s_Mouth
• Hester Blum, “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies”: https://www.hesterblum.com/s/10-Prospect-of-Oceanic-Studies-PMLA.pdf
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
• Alexander Sherman, Meghan M. Shea, Fatoumata Binta Barrie, Rahsaan McFarland II, Stephen R. Palumbi, Fiorenza Micheli & Margaret Cohen, “A framework for co-creating knowledge across the ocean humanities and sciences”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-026-00186-1
• “Towards a Blue Art History” Arcade Colloquy: https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/colloquies/towards-blue-art-history
• “Imagining the Oceans” Arcade Colloquy: https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/colloquies/imagining-oceans

Their interview discusses:

• What is the digital humanities (and what isn't it)
• How did Stanford become a key player in the history of the digital humanities?
• How do Mark and Sunny employ digital humanities in their research?
• How does AI fit into the broader world of the digital humanities?
• What will the future bring for the digital humanities?
   

Transcript: Digital Humanities: Present and Future Transcript.docx

Projects mentioned in this episode:

 Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)

 Stanford Literary Lab

 The Spatial History Project

 Humanities + Design

 Stanford BA in Data Science for Artistic and Cultural Analysis

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