Shared Horizons II: Data, Health and the Digital Humanities (DH2)

FAIN: HC-290491-22

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA 24061-2000)
Tom Ewing (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, working in cooperation with the Office of Digital Humanities at the NEH and the National Library of Medicine at the NIH, propose a symposium, workshop, and edited volume on the intersections of data, health, and the digital humanities.

Shared Horizons II will enhance the humanities by building further bridges into medicine and data based on ever expanding research located at the intersection of data, health, and the digital humanities, which asks how records of human experience in the history of medicine include numerical representations requiring rigorous examination by scholars and students trained in both humanities inquiry and data analytics. Through the involvement of participants drawn from a variety of areas in biomedicine and the humanities, Shared Horizons II will focus on themes and topics intersecting the digital humanities and health data, including transnational studies, data and health before the modern period, health and data experts from underrepresented populations, experiences of marginalized communities. The workshop will result in the publication of an edited volume of original research contributions.