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Category Archives: Session Proposals
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 … Continue reading
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Session Proposal: More on Omeka
I’m also happy to spend a session delving further into Omeka, talking about how to build an exhibit, how to set up your own installation of Omeka, and answering questions about specialized uses of Omeka. For this session, though, people … Continue reading
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Session Proposal: Building Online Archives with Omeka (again)
I’m happy to teach another session on Tuesday of the workshop I did today (Monday), “Building Online Archives with Omeka. Here’s the description: Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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Session proposal: Teaching race and colonialism with digital humanities
I’d love to help create a session around the role of the digital humanities in scholarship & teaching about race and colonialism (and gender, sexuality, and indigeneity, among other things). How might new technologies help or hinder teaching about violent, … Continue reading
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Do Digital Critics Dream of Electric Texts? (- or – Genres, Media, Culture, & Technology, Respectively)
“How can it not know what it is?” Deckard, the protagonist of the film Blade Runner, after interviewing an android that did not know it was an android and therefore behaved as if she were a human being. With this … Continue reading
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Geography
My research focuses on an organization that coordinates different social movements throughout Haiti. I would like to map out the surface covered by this organization’s work.
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Easy Technologies for the Language Classroom
Implementing technology in the classroom can be an exciting and daunting prospect at the same time. Still, with a little ingenuity and without too much complication, technology can help motivate and engage learners and allow for instruction that reaches beyond … Continue reading
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