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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, 15-17 August 2019 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoShaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CAN, 15-17 August 2019
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Sixteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. Successful proposals will offer a focused analysis of any aspect of Shaw’s work, or that of his contemporaries f…[Read more]
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Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Be sure to add this Drama and Performance session to your 2019 MLA schedule in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSession 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
*Saturday, 5 January3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency HotelProgram arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Presiding: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, U of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
1. “‘Growth Untried’: Dramatic Infan…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for a TC Digital Humanities sponsored roundtable on Digital Hispanisms with Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College), and myself.
This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the i…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic MLA19 582 Roundtable. Digital Hispanisms in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago<h3>Digital Hispanisms</h3>
Alex Saum-Pascual (UC, Berkeley), Sylvia Fernández (U. of Houston), Nora Benedict (Princeton U), Vanessa Ceia McGill U), Lorena Gauthereau (U. of Houston), Élika Ortega (Northeastern U.), and Hilda Chacón (Nazareth College).This roundtable aims to spark a conversation on the intersections between Digital Humanities (D…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoFront matter for Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan deposited This Talk Doesn’t Have A Name in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis talk discusses various aspects of working with data: the choices that we make when we create data, when we analyze data, and some of the social implications of those choices.
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Anne Donlon started the topic AHA-MLA THATCAMP, January 2nd in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWill you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.
Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]
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Sarah Ruth Jacobs deposited MLA 2019: Abstracts for Special Session 728, Readership Studies in the Age of Digital Media in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis panel considers the question of how traditional readership studies and reception theory have evolved methodologically, materially, and theoretically in the context of digital reading and online networks. While the panelists find common theoretical ground between studies of pre-and-post-internet networks of readers, they also chart substantive…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro started the topic TC DH Executive Committee Voting in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI am honored to be one of your nominees for the TC DH Executive Committee. I thought it might be helpful to share a quick bio here to help you make your decision. Currently, I am the Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric at Stevenson University, a member of the MLA Executive Council, and serve on the Editorial Collective of the Journal of…[Read more]
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Élika Ortega started the topic ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in DIGITAL HUMANITIES in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear all,
Sten Kauber at Tallinn University has asked me to share this opportunity with the group. Please, see below:
Tallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission
funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This wo…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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Paige Morgan started the topic November 10th Deadline! CFP: ACH Conference for Computing and the Humanities: in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe deadline for submitting papers to the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is coming up on Saturday, November 10th. Have you submitted an abstract yet?
The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23-26, 2019 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.
ACH is the United States-based c…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic MLA + AHA THATCamp — Call for Organizers in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoOn January 2nd, we’re going to have an MLA + AHA THATCamp at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re looking for a few people to take the lead on organizing it.
A THATCamp doesn’t have a program set ahead of time, so the work would mainly be to manage the registrations ahead of time and to facilitate on the day. Seth Denbo (director of sc…[Read more]
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