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Nicky Agate created the event ACLA Annual Meeting on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoOh, @camillahoel, I would love to read that article when you’re feeling ready to share! And yes, I agree that Octavia Butler feels not-quite-speculative enough in 2017. Le sigh.
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI’ll start!
I’ve just finished The Obelisk Gate, the second book in NK Jemisin‘s Broken Earth trilogy, and enjoyed it even more than last year’s Hugo-winning The Fifth Season. I find Jemisin’s world building to be remarkable, and am more than a little sad that the final installment doesn’t come out until the fall. February also saw me finally…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Welcome (and what are you reading?) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWelcome to the Humanities Commons speculative fiction group! I’m envisaging this as a place to share scholarship and events, of course, but also as a source of recommendations and discussion of contemporary speculative and science fiction. So… what are you reading? What would you recommend?
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Nicky Agate started the topic Seamus Heaney materials? in the discussion
Irish Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoApril 13th would have been Seamus Heaney’s 78th birthday. I wonder if any Humanities Commons users have scholarship or teaching materials on Heaney that they’d like to share in the repository for others to use?
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Nicky Agate started the topic General Introductions to Digital Humanities in the discussion
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Nicky Agate started the topic The ASAP invites submissions for the 2017 Graduate Paper Prize in the discussion
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) invites submissions for the 2017 Graduate Paper Prize.
ASAP awards a prize of $250 annually for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of the anthropology of policy and a condensed version of the winning paper will be published in the ASAP Anthropology News column and linked on the ASAP…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic "Publications" section of MLA Commons Profile? in the discussion
MLA Commons Help on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi, Susan,
We’re so sorry about this! Your data has not been lost, but we did discover a field name mismatch which we think is causing the publications not to appear. Our developer is aware of the problem and has prioritized it. Again, we can only apologize.
Best,
Nicky for the MLA Commons team
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Sort publication list in profile according to categories in the discussion
Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi @titusstahl and @paoloaranha, your wish is our command! Now more spacing between CORE deposits in profile—and they’re divided by category. Thanks for the feedback!
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP: Digital Frontiers 2017 (deadline 4/28/17) in the discussion
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoDigital Frontiers is an annual conference that explores advances and research in humanities and cultural memory through the lenses of digital scholarship, technology, and multidisciplinary discourse. The conference recognizes creativity and collaboration across academic subjects by bringing together researchers, students, librarians, archivists,…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate created the event Digital Frontiers in the group Library & Information Science. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP Disrupting Mainstream History / Allied Media Conference in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PROPOSALS
Attend the Allied Media Conference on June 15-18, 2017 in Detroit, MI!
Registration now open at https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc
Deadline to propose is March 12.
Disrupting Mainstream History: Memory Keeping, Storytelling, and Community Archives Track. The Disrupting Mainstream History Track will explore how to produce,…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Job: Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoJob Description
The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://news.brown.edu/articles/2015/01/digital) and is designed to extend Brown’s capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication. The Digital Scholarship Editor plays an important role…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate replied to the topic Should the term "Alt-Academic" be changed in the light of new cultural shifts? in the discussion
Alt-Academics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoWe’ve tried to avoid using “alt-academic” and “alt-ac” in Connected Academics discussions, focusing instead on humanities careers. If this group is interested in moving discussion over to the Connected Academics group, or alternatively over to the broader Humanities Commons platform (in order to engage with non-members and humanities practitioners…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic editor and tool bar in the discussion
Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHi, @anatudugarit,
This should be fixed now! Let us know if you continue to have problems editing your profile.
Best,
Nicky
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months ago
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine's book, "Strange Concepts," available open access in CORE in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello!
I wanted to let members of this group know that Lisa Zunshine has made her 2008 book, “Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible” available open access in CORE at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6904F. Here’s the abstract: “Fantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have…[Read more]
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