Digital Humanities, Digital Culture Studies, and Computational Folklore at #AFS11

Dan Cohen recently wrote with enthusiasm about this year’s American Historical Association’s meetings being an inflection point in which digital humanities work in history has finally shown up on the meeting program in a significant way. (For DH at the MLA, see Ryan Cordell here.) Because it has been a steady presence for many years, the 2011 American Folklore Society meetings do not represent such a breakthrough moment, but such work is very much present on this year’s program. Importantly, such work is taking special advantage of the new poster exhibition and diamond (slide-driven, quick) formats. There are digital humanities presentations scattered throughout the program but here are some all-digital gatherings at #afs11:

• Poster Exhibition: Folklore Studies and the Digital Humanities
• Workshop: Introduction to Digital Audio Field Recording
• Workshop: Preparing and Preserving Digital Folklife Fieldwork Materials
• Author Meets Critics: Robert Glenn Howard’s Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
• Workshop: Learning with Librarians I: An Introduction to Copyright and Intellectual Property/ An Introduction to Open Folklore
• Workshop: Learning with Librarians II: An Introduction to Digital Humanities and Online Information Resources
• Diamond Session: Digital and Computational Approaches to Folklore I
• Diamond Session: Digital and Computational Approaches to Folklore II
• Paper Panel:  Media Culture and Multimodality in the Play and Games of Schoolchildren in the New Media Age

The entire conference program, with abstracts, is available form the AFS website, here: http://www.afsnet.org/?2011AM4

PS/Update:  Here is one that I missed:

• Paper Panel: Mediated Affiliations and the Electronic Vernacular