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There is no doubt that programming has become a proven and accepted methodological enabler for many humanities researchers. And yet, the long predicted moment of the post-digital humanities, in which an approach based on technology is as commonplace as one based on theory, still seems to recede in the distance. This talk will explore some of the conditions that bracket computational work in the humanities, in particular those related to data and to infrastructure, so as to provide a collective frame in which to view to some of the macro-level drivers shaping the conditions by which programmatic work in humanities subjects is limited, constrained, supported or valourised. It will also propose some of initiatives and trends we might look to for the potential to expand the future accessibility of computational methods. Drawing from the perspectives of both a university-based DH Centre and teaching programme as well as that of a pan-European digital research infrastructure, the talk will contextualise the work of programming in the humanities in terms of its antecedents and successors as well as its high-level institutional and policy contexts.
