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4 Mar 2006

Announcing MITH Director Search

By |2020-10-08T16:08:43-04:00Mar 4, 2006|Opportunities|

An internal search for a Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanties (MITH) has begun. Professor Juan Uriagereka (Linguistics) will chair. Joining him on the Search Committee are Professor Ralph Bauer (ENGL), Ellen Borkowski (OIT), Patricia Cossard (Library for Architecture), Professor Roberta Lavine (SLLC), Professor Allen Stairs (PHIL), and Catherine Hays Zabriskie (ARHU).

28 Feb 2006

3/7 Digital Dialogue: Scott Rettberg

By |2020-10-08T16:08:44-04:00Feb 28, 2006|Digital Dialogues|

Scott Rettberg, new media writer, practicioner, scholar, and critic, discusses questions of genre, canonicity, editing, anthologizing, and collecting in the context of digital literary forms encompassing kinetic poetry, interactive fiction, combinatory writing, story and poetry generation, and network-mediated memoir. 12:30 in the MITH Conference Room.

22 Feb 2006

2/28 Digital Dialogue: April Householder

By |2020-10-08T16:08:44-04:00Feb 22, 2006|Digital Dialogues|

April L. Householder, filmmaker and doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature, will screen her documentary entitled The Brave Stepped Back: The Life and Times of Laskarina Bouboulina. Part of a multimedia dissertation, the film tells the story of a fifty year old grandmother who built her own fleet, stormed a fortress, liberated a harem, and started a revolution. April will be on hand to discuss her project after the screening. At our usual 12:30 start time in the MITH Conference Room.

15 Feb 2006

2/21 Digital Dialogue: Ben Shneiderman, “Creativity and Computing” (with a light Japanese lunch!)

By |2020-10-08T16:08:45-04:00Feb 15, 2006|Digital Dialogues|

MITH is very pleased to welcome Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Ben will discuss his latest research on Creativity Support Tools, with an emphasis on audiences including graphic designers, architects, writers, poets, musicians, new media artists, and many others. 12:30 in the MITH Conference Room (B0135). A light Japanese lunch will be served beginning at noon.

14 Feb 2006

Carl Stahmer on “Technology and Intersectionality”

By |2020-10-08T16:08:45-04:00Feb 14, 2006|Community|

MITH Acting Associate Director Carl Stahmer as well as Michele Mason (our Winnemore Dissertation Fellow) and Asim Ali (one of our travel grant recipients) will both participate in this colloquium designed specifically for graduate students interested in the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of difference.

8 Feb 2006

2/14 Digital Dialogue

By |2020-10-08T16:08:46-04:00Feb 8, 2006|Digital Dialogues|

MITH's weekly Digital Dialogues series continues on Tuesday, Feb. 14th at our usual 12:30 time in the MITH seminar room. MITH Fellow Regina Harrison will screen and lead a discussion of her film "Mined to Death," a 40 minute documentary depicting miners in Potosi, Bolivia, who extract silver, zinc, and lead from the mountain in the same precarious conditions as their ancestors did five centuries ago.

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