Andy Van Dam Digital Dialogue
Since 1967, when my students and I, collaborating with Theodor Nelson, built the Hypertext Editing System on an IBM /360 mainframe, I’ve been involved [...]
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Apr 2016
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Apr 2016
Matthew Kirschenbaum Digital Dialogue (and book launch)
This Digital Dialogue is also a launch event for Matthew Kirschenbaum's new book Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, sponsored by the English department's [...]
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Mar 2016
Harold Short Digital Dialogue
This session will include presentations on projects in three very different cultural and social contexts. The purpose of the session is to prompt and facilitate discussion around [...]
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Mar 2016
Computer Science and the Humanities Then and Now: A Film Screening and Discussion with Andy van Dam
This screening features Brown University's Andy van Dam and his 1974 documentary about an NEH-funded project to "support an experimental program to teach a college-level English poetry course, utilizing a new form of computer based 'manuscript,' called a hypertext." The screening is followed by a panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by MITH's Matt Kirschenbaum.
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Mar 2016
Henry Lovejoy Digital Dialogue
Knowing when and where people came from within Africa, and when and where they went in diaspora, is a major research question affecting the [...]
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Feb 2016
Maxim Romanov Digital Dialogue
In the course of 14 centuries, Muslim authors wrote, compiled and recompiled a great number of multivolume collections that often include tens of thousands of [...]
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Feb 2016
Kim Gallon Digital Dialogue
In the recent past, black people have created and utilized a variety of digital spaces and media to reconfigure the terms and terrain of debates [...]
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Feb 2016
Thomas Haigh and Mark Priestley Digital Dialogue
Books and shows about the history of information technology have usually focused on great inventors and technical breakthroughs, from Charles Babbage and Alan Turing to [...]
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Jan 2016
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) was awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and is being co-directed by MITH and the Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy (Center for Synergy). The project was funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies, and will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities in African American history and cultural studies, and enrich humanities research with new methods, archives and tools.
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Jan 2016
Elissa Frankle Digital Dialogue
In 2013, Ms. Frankle gave her first Digital Dialogue, "Making History with the Masses: Citizen History and Radical Trust in Museums." Three years later, the [...]