Toma Tasovac on “Thinking Infrastructurally”

Wrapping up our 2019 DH Slavic Summer School will be Toma Tasovac, Director of DARIAH-EU and Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities, titledThinking Infrastructurally: What’s In It forHumanities Scholars?” The talk will take place on Thursday Sept. 5, 2019 at 4:30pm,  Wallace Hall, 300.

How can humanities scholars think infrastructurally? How would that effect the way we conduct and disseminate our research? Can we build research infrastructures without subscribing to the insidious master narratives of efficiency and progress? This talk will also touch upon the value of infrastructural thinking for the Slavic Studies field, citing examples from the Raskovnik Serbian dictionary platform and the Prepis.org transcription project.

Toma Tasovac is Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH) and Director of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). His areas of interest include lexicography, data modeling, TEI, digital editions and research infrastructures.