About the Course

Digital Methodologies in Middle Eastern Studies

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies · Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies · New York University

Spring 2021 Thursdays 2–4:45pm Professor Jared McCormick

Course Overview

This course is a broad survey of artistic, academic, and activist production of digital material over the last 15 years in the Middle East — as well as workshops that introduce and problematize certain "Digital Humanities" tools and methods to students. The course explores the landscape of changing production and dissemination of research in the region, while also addressing how graduate students can think digitally in their own work.

This course is about your project & thinking — how to think more broadly and boldly with new methods to ask, research, and produce your scholarship!

I Digital Directions of Middle Eastern Studies II Text as Data III Archive Fever: Documents, Objects & Images IV Maps, Space, and Visualizing Place V Digital Storytelling: Text/Image/Sound/Video VI Presentations & Projects

Format

Synchronous Sessions: Meet Thursdays 2–4:45pm. Each module has regional platforms and datasets which motivate and guide our study.

Kevo Digital Forays: Attend all 6 Digital Forays events which precede class. A guest from the lecture joins the first part of class (2–3pm). Events meet 12:30–2pm. These events extend conversations beyond the classroom "walls."