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Critical Karaoke Comes to "Mediating Race"
What is Critical Karaoke, you ask? Here are the rules: (1) You get to talk about a single song, (2) for as long as the song is long, (3) while the...
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Ethnic Notions by Marlon Riggs
Students in "Mediating Race: Technology, Performance, Politics, and Aesthetics in Popular Culture," with Professors Cathy N. Davidson and Racquel...
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Super Creatives: Knowing, Doing, and Making in Composition Classrooms
“To be creative a person must exist and have a feeling of existing, not in conscious awareness, but as a basic place to operate from. Creativity is...
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Building a Better Major: The Case of English
"About 75% of English Departments we surveyed say they have made changes or are going to make changes to the major--but we don't really have evidence...
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The Florida Constitution Podcast
The Florida Constitution Podcast is a new podcast history project produced by Robert Cassanello , Holly Baker and I in celebration of the fiftieth...
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A Trend in the The-ah-tuh
Image credit: The Octoroon , Act IV, by Dion Boucicault 1859 (print held by Special Collections, Templeman Library, University of Kent) As mentioned...
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Digitizing Ex-Votos: Ethics & Concerns
In recent decades, research surrounding ex-votos, or votive offerings, has increasingly included digitization methods to document or catalogue...
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Feb. 28: "Revolutionizing Wikipedia: A Queer and Feminist Edit-a-Thon"
Thurs, Feb 28 @ 12-4:30 PM in Room 9204 Co-Sponsored by The Futures Initiative, GC Digital Initiatives, Teaching and Learning Center, and HASTAC at...
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First Contact with Nineteenth-Century Script
“We’re organizing a transcribe-a-thon for Douglass Day this year.” My colleague’s announcement led to my first contact with nineteenth-century script...
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Event Recap: "Revolutionizing Wikipedia: A Queer & Feminist Edit-a-Thon"
This post was originally published on futuresinitiative.org on March 1, 2019. To read the original post, click here . First, I would like to thank...
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Black Love: An Interview w Prof Racquel Gates
Check out this wonderful interview on The Root with Prof Racquel Gates about depictions of Black love, romance, tenderness in Black cinema, starting...
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Rhetorical Spaces and Places
Greetings, I'm Christopher Peace, a Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas. I'm very new to HASTAC Scholars, and somewhat to digital humanities at...
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Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness
Excerpted from chapter 5 of Race by Martin Orkin and Alexa Alice Joubin. New Critical idiom Sereis. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 193-227. Full text...
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Everything Change, Volume II climate fiction anthology
Today, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University published Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction,...
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Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan
Originally featured on the femlab blog ( a feminist exhibition space on the University of Alberta campus): https://ualbertafemlab.wordpress.com/...
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History is for Everyone: Launch of Contingent Magazine
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historian should be paid for their work. When you travel to contingentmag.org...
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Early bird registration is now open and goes until March! #HASTAC2019 Conference “Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education”
We are incredibly excited for this years’ annual HASTAC conference on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-...
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Complicating the Limits of the Viewer's Gaze in Film
We began our Wednesday class on Feb 6, with a quick inventory of the room: everyone read one sentence or short passage from the readings that they...
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Five Tips For Your First Academic Conference
Just last month, I had the opportunity to attend my first academic conference! The title of the conference was SWPACA (short for Southwest Popular/...
