Humanities Informatics is emerging as a new field in response to these developments. There are clear connections here to the work done in digital humanities, including the manipulation and visualization of data. But humanities informatics is less concerned with the actual computation of data than it is with the ways in which data structures and algorithms inform political economy, humanistic cultural production, human scientific endeavors, and studies of the evolution of human life itself. The 2018 CHCI conference on Humanities Informatics showcased the power of the humanities to address these urgent questions about the ‘human’ in our information age.

Welcome and Introduction (Rotunda Dome)

Sara Guyer
President, CHCI

Debjani Ganguly
Director, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures

Ian Baucom
Buckner W. Clay Dean of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia