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CFP: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"

Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

When Technology Fails Us All

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 19, 2009, 05:15 PM

Sometimes we are gifted with amazing technologies that can change our lives for the better. Sometimes these new technologies are so advanced and different to what we are accustomed to, we can not fully benefit from them. We try to use these new tools in the same way we used their predecessors. We cling to methods that are rooted in inferior, antiquated channels.

 

Here is a true story that illustrates this. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Traversing Digital Boundaries (without looking back)

Submitted by whitneyt on Feb 25, 2009, 11:00 PM

HASTAC III.  ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.?
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology.  For more information, visit http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Index/Entries/2009/1/26_HASTAC_III.html or contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Studying Antiquity in the Digital Age

Submitted by Angela Kinney on Feb 08, 2009, 09:44 AM
The fields of classics & medieval studies are often considered to be as uninnovative as it gets.  The study of antiquity is taken by many - including many within these fields - to be antiquated by nature.  Yet I think that historically these fields have traversed boundaries.

HASTAC III. ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.?
This blog is part of a series of blogs leading up to the third annual HASTAC conference, which will be held April 19-21, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the theme ?Traversing Digital Boundaries.? As the theme suggests, the gathering will focus on the exploration of new territory and on work that crosses, manipulates, or simply ignores traditional boundaries. The conference program will include presentations of research, performances, technology demonstrations, posters, panel discussions, and ?virtual? participation via telepresence technology. For more information, visit http://www.chass.uiuc.edu/Index/Entries/2009/1/26_HASTAC_III.html or contact HASTAC3@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

Center for Cultural Analysis Welcomes Lee Siegel (Dec 3)

Submitted by michael.a.gavin on Dec 04, 2008, 09:39 AM

The Center for Cultural Analysis welcomed Lee Siegel yesterday to discuss his contentious book, Against the Machine.  I had expected the discussion to be fun and contentious, and Siegel didn't disappoint.  Here's the blurb for the book:<

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