THATCamp Activity

Jim McGrath wrote a new post, THATCamp Reflections: On the Unfinished Business of Unconferences, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

The call for THATCamp reflections in the wake of the project’s sunsetting has generated a lot of interesting writing, as well as an informal record of some of the networks that intersected with (and, in some cas […]

Sara Brumfield wrote a new post, THATCamp Changed Our Lives, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

When folks ask me how we started FromThePage, our crowdsourced transcription software, I talk about the family diaries, and how, inspired by Wikipedia, we sought to build a place that made transcribing a […]

Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Gratitude, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

In 2012, I wrote this email to Dave Lester and Jeremy Boggs:
Yesterday, I was telling someone that I’d had three big breaks to be able to do DHish work as a career. Enumerating them I realized that two of them […]

Matthew Lincoln wrote a new post, Apogee, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

In 2013 I was nearing the end of my PhD coursework and feeling truly despondent about the specter of writing a proposal for my dissertation. Nothing in the field seemed to be the right combo of interesting, […]

karindalziel wrote a new post, THATCamp through the years, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

In 2008 I was an office associate in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, halfway through my Library Master’s, and attempting to build a “professional network” on Twitter (an effort hamstrung to this […]

sbrennan wrote a new post, We'll Always Have THATCamp, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

Saying farewell to THATCamp is saying goodbye to an era. That era probably ended a few years ago, but it’s ethos and enthusiasm lives on in all of us campers.

I must admit, I never expected that THATCamp w […]

Dan Cohen wrote a new post, More than THAT, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

“Less talk, more grok.” That was one of our early mottos at THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, which started at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in 20 […]

mebrett wrote a new post, Just (geo)Duckie, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

It was my Dad, George H. Brett II, who told me about THATCamp. He was my introduction to many DH things – html, the world wide web, twitter, and RRCHNM. I was working in public history, and after he attended a […]

quinnanya wrote a new post, When anything was doable, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

My first THATCamp memory is the poster for THATCamp Chicago in 2010. I downloaded it immediately and set to work adding Space Invaders. I couldn’t resist.

That meeting, which brought in folks from […]

Anastasia Salter wrote a new post, Playing at Academia, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

When I attended THATCamp in 2010, I had just defended my dissertation, and I was trying to figure out who I was supposed to be now that I had supposedly grown up. Looking back at my session proposal that year, my […]

Jeanne Kramer-Smyth wrote a new post, THATCamp Reflections, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

My path to the inaugural THATCamp started at the Society of American Archivist’s 2006 annual meeting in DC. I was a local grad student presenting my first poster: Communicating Context in Online Collections – […]

Amanda French wrote a new post, Bliss was it in that dawn, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

When I think of the THATCamp era, 2008-2014, I think of the Wordsworth lines from The Prelude: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / But to be young was very heaven” (see at Hathitrust). Wordsworth was […]

Jeffrey McClurken wrote a new post, A Career Forged in THATCamps, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

I began by just trying to figure out how many THATCamps I attended. I knew that I went to the original one at CHNM in 2008, presenting on a class that I had just finished teaching for the first time, and […]

Mills Kelly wrote a new post, I Am Here to Have Fun!, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

Sometime toward the end of 2010, the organizers of ThatCamp Lausanne asked me to come and give a keynote to get the event started on the right foot. ThatCamp in Switzerland? Um, sure. I can definitely make […]

Max Marmor wrote a new post, THATCamp and Digital Art History, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

We at the Samuel H. Kress Foundation are proud to have been among the early philanthropic sponsors of THATCamps. Our key interest was in jump-starting the evolution of digital art history. In retrospect it is […]

jtheibault wrote a new post, Reflections on THATCamp, the Franchise, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

I don’t remember how I first learned about THATCamp – perhaps it was from the HNN website, or perhaps it was from Twitter. I’m pretty sure the inaugural one passed me by entirely unnoticed. But when the call for p […]

Boone Gorges wrote a new post, The Unreality of THATCamp, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

I attended my first THATCamp in 2009, less than a year before I quit my PhD studies. I descended on CHNM that June weekend wavering between: frustration about the hypercompetitive-hypermasculine-hypercynical world […]

Trevor Owens wrote a new post, Growing up with THATCamp, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) has announced the program is sunsetting and is hosting a retrospective on the site. I’m crossposting some quick reflections there and here.

I think I’ve been to […]

Patrick Murray-John wrote a new post, THATCamp, DH, and my Wardrobe, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

The sunsetting of THATCamp is bittersweet for me. It played a fundamental part in both my personal and professional development over its entire span. From the initial reactions on Twitter, and the retrospectives […]

Lee Skallerup Bessette wrote a new post, Where We All Ended Up, on the site THATCamp Retrospective right now

I don’t know if I can say what impact THATCamp had on (checks notes) Comparative Literature, but I do know, personally, what impact it had on my teaching and my career. A decade ago, I was a contingent faculty […]