"What Can Digital Composition Provide for Historical Narration?” Talk by Shahzad Bashir of Brown University

“This talk will focus on the ideas and processes that went into creation of the multimodal digital monograph A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022). I will emphasize that successful digital composition requires a close connection between the argument one wishes to make regarding one’s topic (in my case the relationship between Islam and time) and possibilities available in digital representation. I will also expand beyond my own published work to share examples of how projects of various historical scales can put digital tools to use for quite different ends.”