Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Aaron! 7PM is the worst time for me on Wednesdays. Evenings, the best times for me to chat are 8PM or 10:30PM.
1) If any of you have access to those spaces, I’d be happy to meet there. If we’re small enough (four people or less) we can meet in my windowless office at NYU; larger than that I can reserve a conference room. I would personally also be okay with meeting in a cafe or bar.
2) Sometimes I think that DH allows people to do more humanities research without an academic position, but then I remember The Professor and the Madman and I’m not so sure. But maybe?
I think DH’s connections to museums, libraries and other alt-ac makes it more flexible in general. It’s not all about tenure-track teaching positions, or even full-time postdocs.
3) Before we do a lot of outreach, I think we should do some visioning of a world where independent and contingent researchers are … what? In the meantime, we should make sure that we have visibility at any DH events, so that potential confederates know that we exist.
4) Visioning! (Don’t worry, the visioning doesn’t last forever.)
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