The Global Digital Humanities Symposium will begin with a workshop led by Alex Gil on Minimal Computing, an important subfield of global digital humanities. The description of the workshop is below:

In this talkshop we will immediately link digital humanities to critical theory by looking at the production of our own knowledge within the context of global capitalism and environmental decay. We will accomplish this by reducing the technological stack you can use for your own production to bare minimums that you can both understand and command. We call this type of praxis (theory + making), minimal computing. Specific technologies you will be introduced to: Terminal, Markdown, HTML/CSS, Pandoc, Jekyll & Github. Bring your laptops (Macs & Linux preferred).

Learn more about Minimal Computing at the Global Outlook::Digital Humanities Minimal Computing Working Group.