Conférence de Claire Battershill @ McGill U
14 mai 2026 • 16h 17h30
McGill University, 680 Sherbrooke West, Room 1041
Hosted by Cecily Raynor, the final lecture in the « Crisis and Care » speaker series of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University will be given by Claire Battershill (University of Toronto). Her talk is entitled « Slow Looking and Close Reading: Crafting Care in Collaborative Humanities Research »:
In an era defined by rapid digitization, the application of AI tools, and the mass aggregation of cultural data, this talk will argue for a practice of humanistic research that emphasizes care (of both objects and people), attention, and creativity in the analysis and activation of cultural heritage materials housed in library special collections. Drawing from a collaborative research project on feminist data visualization of library data that involved librarians, printmakers, students, and scholars, this talk will suggest various ways in which collaborative research teams can encourage new and exciting creative work while practicing respectful and careful conservation practices. The project serves as a case study in what might be called « craft-based humanities research » — an approach that centres the tactile, aesthetic, and affective dimensions of working with historical materials, and that treats the research process itself as a site of meaning-making and critical reflection. How, I ask in this talk, can we cultivate ethical and careful digitization and collections-based visualization practices while also ensuring that materials from past can continue to be relevant and lively in the present?
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