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).
As part of the national Humanities Advocacy Day events on Capitol Hill that took place on Wednesday, March 1, MITH was one of ten NEH [...]
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.
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.
On Tuesday of next week, MITH Acting Associate Director Matthew Kirschenbaum will speak at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. [...]
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.
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University invites scholars of the history of science, technology, and industry to its second workshop on the theory and practice of digital history.
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.
MITH is pleased to release its Spring Speakers Schedule. Between our weekly seminar series Digital Dialogues and a variety of special guests we are bringing [...]
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.