Transforming Scholarly Publishing: Open Access, New Forms of Peer Review, and Building Academic Communities
Tuesday, January 8, 12:30 (lunch), 1:00-3:00 (discussion), Axinn 232
Nationally renowed digital humanists Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr) and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona and MLA’s Director of Scholarly Communication) will be joined by Middlebury’s Jason Mittell (Film and Media Culture / American Studies) and Alison Byerly (English and American Literature) for a panel that will explore new innovations in scholarly publishing. Issues explored will include rethinking peer review for a digital age, potentials of open access and public scholarship, and fostering academic communities via digital publication.
I Love a Mystery: Narrative Innovation in 1940s Hollywood Cinema
Thursday, November 15, 4:30pm, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 216
Lecture by David Bordwell, one of the world's most prolific, prominent, and influential film scholars. He is the Jacques Ledoux Prefessor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of over a dozen books on topics ranging from narrative theory to Hong Kong cinema. Recently he has emerged as an innovator in digital publishing, with accessible essays and eBooks.
Student Fall Screening
Come to Dana Auditorium this Thursday, December 6th at 7:30pm for an evening of short film about heartache, obsession, bad decisions, sudden death, addiction, breakups, hate groups, suicide, first love and intramural soccer.
Dive into the wild world of animation to learn a thing or two about outer space, hungry robots, vigilante thugs, persistent young inventors, magical clocks, centaurs in love, hitch hikers in trouble and the unexpected symbiosis between a hedgehog and an ostrich.