Kirschenbaum to Speak at UT Austin
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. [...]
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Feb 2006
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Feb 2006
Creativity and Computing
Ben Schneiderman
Computer Science
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
12:30 pm
Creativity Support Tools is a research topic with high risk but potentially very high payoff. The goal is to develop improved software and user interfaces [...]
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Feb 2006
2/21 Digital Dialogue: Ben Shneiderman, “Creativity and Computing” (with a light Japanese lunch!)
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.
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Feb 2006
Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry, June 12-16, 2006
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.
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Feb 2006
Carl Stahmer on “Technology and Intersectionality”
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.
14
Feb 2006
"Mined to Death": Film Screening and Discussion
Regina Harrison
MITH
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
12:30 pm
Produced, scripted, and filmed by Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) Fellow Regina Harrison who will lead a discussion after the screening, this [...]
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Feb 2006
MITH Announces Spring Speakers Schedule
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 [...]
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Feb 2006
2/14 Digital Dialogue
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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Feb 2006
UNL/CLIR Fellowship: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Washington, D.C
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries offer a one-year Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. The Fellow will be based in the University Libraries' Digital Initiatives & Special Collections Department (DISC) and will be involved in a major Center for Digital Research in the Humanities project dealing with Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Washington, D.C. during the Civil War.
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Feb 2006
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition: A Discussion
Community Discussion
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
12:30 pm
MITH's first Digital Dialogue of the spring 2006 semester will be a discussion of William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition (2003), on Tue, Feb 7 at [...]