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Russell A. Berman started the topic The Ten Worst Things about BDS in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago
The Ten Worst Things About the BDS Movement
Cary Nelson1. BDS demonizes, antagonizes, and delegitimizes one of the two parties who have to negotiate a solution to the conflict by working together and uncritically idealizes the other.
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The Myth of Institutional Boycotts in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProponents of BDS (currently) argue that they are (only) proposing a boycott of institutions (only Israeli universities) and that this will not harm individuals. In Inside Higher Education, David Hirsh dismantles this myth. Boycotts of institutions harm the individuals in those institutions.
Attacking Israeli universities is an attack on un…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months ago
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDo you have colleagues and students who are interested in DH and want an introduction to it? Our Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
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Laura C. Mandell posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
I just now published in MLA Commons a syllabus called, “Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home.” It is a syllabus for faculty meetings, proposing that people from various humanities fields meet together in order to figure out what methodologies are common to humanities disciplines. The goal is twofold: to figure out ways to make those methods…[Read more]
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
This syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Nicky Agate's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Nicky Agate changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Stacey Lee Donohue's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
The digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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