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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS Sound Forum CFP is live on the MLA website! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years agoDecolonizing Sound
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This panel explores sound and decolonizing Western methodologies, epistemologies, and archives, and the necessity of decolonizing sound studies. Intersectional scholarship encouraged; non-English and pre-20th century research welcomed. 250-word abstracts to MLAMediaSound@gmail.com by 15 March 2019.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Julie Beth Napolin started the topic Candidate Statement – Executive Committee – last day to vote (December 10) in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre à Union Africaine in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIl s’git d’une lettre aux pays membres d’Union Africaine.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre aux Nations Unies in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCyberpoésies d’engagement qui renonce l’injustice de pays soi-disant Pouvoirs Mondiaux.
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoGreat, thanks! I’ll email you shortly.
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ltyler replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoI’d be willing!
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello all,
For those of you experiencing the start of the fall semester, I hope it’s going well!
I wanted to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in being the focus of an upcoming HC Team blog post. I would love to interview someone who participated in the HC Summer Camp about the site they created as part of the camp’s challenges. Is…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThank you for this summer camp experience.
I’m most excited about finding a home for Virtual Hemingway, which now lists more than 400 Hemingway-related sites! I am also pleased to have a site about my academic accomplishments. I plan to add the URL to my email signature to show off all this work!
Austen scholar Devoney Looser just published…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Mini Challenge #6: Survey in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, everyone!
The HC team and I would love some feedback from you regarding the HC Summer Camp. In fact, we’re raffling off two HC platypuses. To enter to win this coveted prize, you simply need to respond to the “Reflect and Plan” questions in our previous discussion thread and/or complete the (5-10 min) survey. Participating in both will…[Read more]
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello everyone! Like Charlie, I took this challenge as an opportunity to write a little bit about my experience doing this summer camp and my plans for my website/overall digital presence going forward. I tried to answer all of the questions in the challenge, albeit in a slightly different order. You can read it here.
Thanks again to Caitlin for…[Read more]
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Mollie Freier deposited Book proposal: Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018 in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoProposal for Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018
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Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]
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Sara Santos deposited History Without Memory: The Memorialization of the Parsley Massacre in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper argues that in The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat seeks to historicize and memorialize the Parsley Massacre through the reframing of the historical event through Amabelle Désir’s fictional account. Through the conflation of historical artifact and literary imagination, the novel narrates, and therefore produces, a collective me…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy deposited The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper articulates a model for examining medieval vernacular multi-text codices which
is based on the dynamics we see in the contemporary use of social media, particularly
personal blogs. Both media democratise the use of an existing specialised technology,
accelerate the development of this technology, and serve as vehicles for the…[Read more] -
Dana Gavin deposited Expect Resistance (To the Message): Effective Design in Protest Signs from 2017 Women’s Marches in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn examination of images of protest signs carried at Women’s March protest marches in the United States on January 21, 2017, reveals that these signs are certainly visual arguments, and that they represent a new and cogent extension of fourth-wave feminism that attempts to address a variety of feminist concerns that is dependent on social media o…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago- I’m happy to have discovered some more groups to join and people to follow. Although I didn’t create a HC site in challenge 4, the focus on widgets has me thinking about porting my existing WP site into HC.
- No specific questions.
- I’d like to keep working on networking with other researchers. HC sends me a daily digest of activity in the…
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cgleek replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHi folks. First off, thank you to <span class=”handle-sign”>@</span>caitlinduffy49 for facilitating HCSummer Camp as well as to everyone else who’s ideas and work I had the chance to read and think about over the past few weeks. Secondly, and in a combined response to both Challenge #5 and #6, I’ve updated my HumCom site and written a bit about…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, campers!
It’s the time we all knew would come eventually: the end of summer camp. I can’t believe it myself, but we’ve arrived at the final challenge, which is centered around reflecting and planning. I hope that you use this time to make sure that you don’t loose track of all of the wonderful work you’ve done over the summer.
To complete…[Read more]
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