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The goal of the Conversations in Digital Humanities speaker series is to engage Cornell's scholars and practitioners whose projects explore the intersections of advanced digital technology and cultural understanding. It targets a broad community of interest at Cornell that reaches across disciplinary and institutional lines. The series includes speakers whose research and practice break new ground in understanding how new media and digital methodologies are changing the landscape of research, teaching, learning, creative expression, and cultural experience.
The series is co-sponsored by the Cornell University Library and , The Society for the Humanities, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
We always welcome suggestions for inviting speakers to engage our community in discussions such as:
- Analyzing the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society
- Practicing integrative approaches that acknowledge the increasingly hybrid nature of our environments, blending new with old.
- Developing innovative uses of technology for public programming, publication, and education
- Creating new multimodal and interactive artworks, interfaces, or other digital “texts”
- Designing and developing new digital tools for creating, preserving, analyzing, and providing access to digital resources
- Creatively engaging with “big data”
- Incorporating digital tools and collaborative learning methods into teaching and pedagogy
- Expanding the possibilities of new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship
- Exploring issues related to information sustainability, permanence, copyright, and authenticity
Please see the series blog for more detailed information about upcoming events.
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Talks will be free, open to the public, and followed by general discussion
For more information, contact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
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2014 Fall Schedule
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September 15: Merritt Kopas
Independent Game Designer, Archivist, and Activist
Ludus Interruptus: How Digital Games Struggle with Sexuality
4:30 pm
Olin Library 107
Merritt Kopas is the author of the games LIM, HUGPUNX, and Consensual Torture Simulator, and a number of other works. Her games have shifted conversations about play, bodies, and sex and have been showcased in festivals across North America and Europe. Kopas aims to build forms of play useful to radical movements and marginalized communities. She curates free and accessible games at her project Forest Ambassador, an attempt to bring interesting work in games to wider publics. She is currently editing an anthology of interactive fiction to be released in 2015
October 2: Edward Baptist
Professor of History, Cornell University
Close, Distant, and Dialogical Readings: Three Ways of Looking at the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives
4:30 pm
Olin Library 703
November 5: Hoyt Long
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Literary Pattern Recognition: A Machine Reading of Modernist Form
4:30 pm
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
This event is co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor
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2015 Spring Schedule - to be posted soon!
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Tom McEnaney:
Tom McEnaney received his PH.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. His research interests include the history of media and technology, sound studies, discourse theory, linguistic anthropology, and new media studies. He has published on digital photography's role in the construction of divided global and national publics in Cuba (LaHabana Elegnate), and the poetics of play and historiography in Borges and Benjamin(VariacionesBorges).
2013 Fall Schedule
Sept. 19: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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For more information, contact the series coordinator Mickey Casad (Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services): mir9@cornell.edu
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