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Nov 13
Session Proposal: Writing Abstracts for #alt-academy
The #alt-academy site mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/alt-ac/ has an open call for papers, with abstracts due this week: www.briancroxall.net/2012/10/17/we-need-more-signposts-a-call-for-abstracts-and-papers-on-alt-ac-careers/ This session will be to discuss and hopefully compose abstracts to submit.
Nov 13
Making a Scene: blending community-building and academic program development in film studies
Ten years ago, the English Department at UPRM had one fledgling film studies course supplemented by film-related course content here and there and the inevitable film content in modern language courses. Ten years later and the English Dept. offers a film studies certificate and is at the apex of a budding DIY-Media and independent film-making …
Nov 13
Digital Literacies for Students?
First, I have to say I like Marta’s proposed session and plan to be there for that. I’m wondering if, along with learning new tools for our own research, we could also do a session on basic digital literacies in the classroom. What are the things our students need to know/know about in order to …
Nov 12
Session Proposal: Is This [the Illusion of] Open Access?: Liberation and the Future of Knowledge and the Book in the Digital Era
Some “deep thoughts that keep us up at night”: ➢ How do we move from open access to universal access? ➢ What are the safeguards we need to put in place against tech obsolescence, planned and unplanned? ➢ Can knowledge-production and access/distribution be sustained without the property model? ➢ Is the ebook a metaphor for …
Nov 12
What do you want to DO?
Technology, Digital, Humanities, text, analysis, model, moodle what? What do you want to do? What do you wish you could teach that you want new tools to teach? What do you want to study but you don’t know what tools will help you study it. What do you wish for? Flying toasters? Let’s get together …
Nov 12
Foundational Theories in the Digital Humanities – the ‘Name Drop’ Session
In this session, which I’m proposing, but in which I do not intend to be the only one talking by any means, I thought we could have an all-around discussion amongst participants to share the following: a) How you became interested in DH and what you are currently working on b) Who are the top …
Nov 12
Digital Tools for Research
Edited by Marta We’ll just do a big roundup of tools, for research, scholarly productivity, and whatever you need to do, we have thought about ways to do it better, faster, more digitally! Bring your favorite tool, we’ll bring ours, and lets share! Tools to think about DevonThink Bookends Mellel Google Apps NVivo Zotero Pajak …
Nov 12
Digitally Retracing the History and the Culture of the Caribbean
Should one of the main concerns of digital humanists in Latin American and Caribbean studies be the curation of a pan-Caribbean cultural establishment or tradition? Does such a thing exist, and if so, how can its canonical media or content be curated? Can the complicated information of the histories, communities, languages, and arts of the …
Nov 11
Writing and Researching the Translingual
The Caribbean scholarship is in an endless quarrel with both language and history. Even the publishing of an article is haunted with the residues of a colonial past where language has been used to police both movement and thought. Here, the question of translation has opened up a lot of doors to new possibilities but …
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