Humanities are pertinent to the digital culture of today. This chapter details how non-Humanities students are engaged in “Digital Humanities: From Text to txt,” a team taught, multidisciplinary course offered at the University of Auckland since 2016. Engagement across five Humanities disciplines—Art History, English Literature, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies—is unified with the common theme of the “digital turn.” The course is modular with each discipline given a two-week block in a twelve-week semester. Students learn with and about technologies through a range of digital forms of engagement encountered in the Humanities. The course builds on students' digital curiosity to revisit questions of personal identity, ethics and belief, meaning, creativity, and historical understanding. Engagement begins in the lecture and tutorial and is deepened via five short assessments and an online final examination. Over the two iterations of the course, student satisfaction and pass rate was high and enrolments increased by 20%.
MAN, are you capable of being just? It is a woman who poses the question; you won't deprive her of at least that right. Tell me: Who gave you the sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the creator in his wisdom; survey nature in all its grandeur, which you seem to want to emulate, and offer me, if you dare, an example of this tyrannical empire …. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN AND OF THE FEMALE CITIZENTo be decreed by the National Assembly in its last sessions, or in those of the next legislature: PREAMBLEThe mothers, the daughters, the sisters, {female} representatives of the nation demand to be constituted in [a] national assembly. Considering that ignorance, forgetfulness, or scorn for the rights of woman are the sole causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments, [they {the women}] have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of woman, so that this declaration, constantly present to all members of the social body, may ever remind them of their rights and their duties, so that the acts of the power of women and those of the power of men may be compared at any moment with the purpose of every political institution [and] be the more respected, [and] so that demands of the female citizens, founded henceforth on simple and incontestable principles, may always serve the maintenance of the constitution, good morals, and the happiness of all.
On the evening of January 30, 1792, the members of the Paris Jacobin Club engaged in a tumultuous act of public patriotism. At the urging of Pierre Manuel, officer of the Paris Commune, and Jean-Baptiste Louvet, radical journalist and orator, the assembled Jacobins responded to the soaring price of colonial foodstuffs by solemnly committing themselves to a "civic sacrifice." They vowed to renounce sugar. Then, at Manuel's insistence and to thunderous applause, the Jacobins offered the nation a "total sacrifice" by vowing also to give up coffee. According to one contemporary account, these interventions were greeted with heated acclamations of "Vive la France" and rapturously sealed with an oath, in which even the spectators in the club's public galleries joined, crying, "Yes, yes! We swear it!" But sleep-deprived revolutionaries, too, had a champion. Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, the propagandist and playwright, sensibly protested that a lack of coffee would hinder the patriotic journalists who bravely worked through the night to alert the people to danger. For his part, Collot gallantly offered to imbibe his beverages unsweetened, while the club with good humor dispensed him and other patriotic writers from having to make such a sacrifice. 1 * Comments and questions from Carla Hesse, Keith M. Baker, and Katharine H. Norris repeatedly reshaped my thinking on this topic, and I am grateful to the participants of the 2005 Stanford-Berkeley French Culture Workshop (particularly William Reddy and Jessica Riskin) for their encouragement on an earlier version of this work. My thanks to the three anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Modern History, whose constructive criticism did much to hone the argument. Finally, I would like to thank the University of Auckland for its financial support of this research and salute the professionals of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), who on several occasions gracefully assisted a time-pressed visitor from the Antipodes.1 A comprehensive rendition of the Jacobin session of January 30 is offered in F.-A. Aulard, ed., La Société des Jacobins: Recueil des documents pour l'histoire du Club des Jacobins de Paris, 6 vols.
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