MITH’s Fall 2017 Digital Dialogues season is about to get underway! Starting four weeks from today with Kevin Hamilton from University of Illinois, we have SIX amazing speakers covering a wide range of research specialties:
Tuesday September 26, 2017: Kevin Hamilton, Professor of New Media, College of Fine and Applied Arts (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Unfixed Research: On Letting Others Lead in Arts-Integrative Work
Tuesday October 3, 2017: Nicole Cooke, Assistant Professor and MS/LIS Program Director (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Acknowledging History in Order to Disrupt it: Unearthing the Segregated History of Library and Information Science
In conjunction with the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative
Tuesday October 10, 2017: Sarah Florini, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (Arizona State University)
Oscillating Networked Publics: Contingent Uses of Black Digital Networks
In conjunction with the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative
Tuesday October 24, 2017: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Director, Center for the Digital Text and Associate Professor of English (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
The Bicentennial Frankenstein Project: Stitching the Seams of Textual Bodies
Tuesday October 31, 2017: Alexandrina Agloro, Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Game Development (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Liberation by Design: Interactive Media & Community-Engaged Making
Tuesday November 7, 2017: Walter Forsberg, Media Archivist, National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution)
Yes, We Scan: Building Media Conservation and Digitization at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
In conjunction with the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative
All talks are at 12:30 pm in the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library North, and are open to the public. Speakers will be listed on the Digital Dialogues schedule here, which will be updated with more information about each talk as it becomes available.
Digital Dialogues is MITH’s signature events program, held during the academic year, and is an occasion for discussion, presentation and intellectual exchange that you can build into your schedule.