{"id":505,"date":"2016-10-07T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-10-07T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:06:59","slug":"the-allure-of-the-digital-humanities-in-times-of-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2016\/10\/07\/the-allure-of-the-digital-humanities-in-times-of-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allure of the Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_506\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\" wp-image-506\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Personal, family and friends: Andre and Yedda Godard taking photos, Natanz, Iran. Baroness Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ullens de Schooten Collection. Courtesy of Harvard University, Fine Arts Library\" width=\"254\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web-624x947.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/10\/43827535-web.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Personal, family and friends: Andre and Yedda Godard taking photos, Natanz, Iran.<\/em><br \/>Baroness Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Ullens de Schooten Collection.<br \/>Courtesy of Harvard University, Fine Arts Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sharon C. Smith, PhD, program head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/islam-arch\">Aga Khan Documentation Center<\/a>, is the invited lecturer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western University<\/a> (London, Ontario, Canada) where she will present <a href=\"http:\/\/www.events.westernu.ca\/events\/visual-arts\/2016-10\/allure-of-the-digital.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAllure of the Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis: Documenting Disruption in the Middle East\u201d<\/a> on Wednesday, October 12, commencing at 5:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the John Labatt Visual Arts Center, room 100. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, Smith will lead a graduate seminar discussion on the \u201cIslamic City\u201d at the invitation of Cody Barteet, professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/visarts\">Department of Visual Arts<\/a> at Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon C. Smith, PhD, program head of the Aga Khan Documentation Center, is the invited lecturer at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada) where she will present \u201cAllure of the Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis: Documenting Disruption in the Middle East\u201d on Wednesday, October 12, commencing at 5:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the John Labatt Visual Arts Center, room 100. It is free and open to the public. Earlier that day, Smith will lead a graduate seminar discussion on the \u201cIslamic City\u201d at the invitation of Cody Barteet, professor in the\u00a0Department of Visual Arts at Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}