This half-day symposium will introduce undergraduate and graduate students to the field of Digital Humanities, bringing together scholars, students, librarians, and professors from across the disciplines at UNT to begin a dialogue around Digital Humanities research and pedagogy. The event will feature presentations and interactive roundtable discussions to introduce interested parties to the implications, practices and uses of Digital Humanities.
“They Leave Me And I Love Them More” - A Symposium on the Legacies of Maurice Sendak”
April 26, 2013, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Digital Scholarship & Innovations Commons, Sycamore Hall Suite 119, University of North Texas
Featuring:
Marshall Armintor, Department of English
Courtney Jacobs, Rare Books Librarian
Spencer Keralis, Digital Scholarship Co-Operative
Sponsored by an Outreach Grant from the Society for the History of Children and Youth.
The UNT Digital Scholarship Co-Operative has three events on Monday, April 8 to celebrate the annual Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH).
Digital Scholarship & Innovations Commons, Sycamore Hall Suite 119, University of North Texas
Schedule:
10:00-11:00 a.m. Webinar on “Mapping Cultures: Tibetan Cultures from Religion, Art, Land, to Environment” with Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan (Austin College)
Noon-1:00 p.m. Tech Talk - Getting Started on Twitter: Communities and Conversations with Anjum Najmi (Doctoral Candidate, Learning Technologies, UNT) and Ephraim Freese (Undergraduate, English, UNT), co-sponsored by UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit.
2:00-3:00 p.m. Graduate Student Round Table, organized by Jeanette Laredo (Doctoral Candidate, English, UNT)
5:00-7:00 p.m. Reception
Digital Frontiers 2013 will be held September 19-21 at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
- Trevor Muñoz (Keynote Speaker) is Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries and an Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). He works on developing digital research projects and services at the intersection of digital humanities centers and libraries. Trevor’s research interests include electronic publishing and the curation of digital humanities research data.
- Jeffrey Stoffer (Plenary Speaker) has been working with film and media arts for over fifteen years. He’s created numerous movie shorts, animated shorts and commercials. Working as the library assistant at the Ak-Chin Indian Community, he has already created over twenty films that are viral on YouTube.
Visit disco.unt.edu/df13 for more information about DF2013, our speakers, and the Call For Proposals!
The Edwin Mellen Press is suing librarian Dale Askey and his employer, McMaster University, for damages in excess of $4 million…. The suit alleges that Askey is guilty of libel for calling Edwin Mellen Press “a vanity press” and suggesting that it lacks “academic credibility.”
A serious academic press values academic freedom. It does not (for example) try to silence its critics with a multi-million dollar lawsuit. A serious academic press builds its reputation on reputable titles. If Edwin Mellen Press seeks to earn the title of “litigious bully,” filing this lawsuit will aid its cause. However, if it seeks to improve its reputation, such legal action seems unlikely to further its aims. As Inside Higher Ed andAcademic Librarian have both reported, this is not the first time it has filed a lawsuit to defend its reputation. The press’s last such lawsuit failed. (A 1993 article in Lingua Franca called Edwin Mellen “a quasi-vanity press cunningly disguised as an academic publishing house.”)…
Who is paying for Dale Askey’s legal costs? McMaster has just published a statement affirming their commitment to academic freedom, but Inside Higher Ed notes that Askey is paying for his own legal fees.
Check out this upcoming Film Fest here in Denton!
RAID OF THE RAINBOW LOUNGE, a documentary about the widely publicized and controversial 2009 police raid of the Fort Worth gay bar, will be screening on Saturday, Feb. 9th @ 4 pm. The set-up will be at UNT on the Square.
The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto presents a vision of a culture of open data across disciplines. Follow the link to co-sign the Declaration.
Fordham launches the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans
