Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

The switch from the term “humanities computing” to “digital humanities” will turn 15 (approximately) next year. This conversation offers an opportunity to take stock of the field by focusing on the surprising dimensions of actual scholarship in digital humanities that often happen below the surface of the administrative faddishness and hype about the field.

What role do bots (automated fake social media accounts) and sockpuppets (human-operated fake social media accounts) play in our digital information environments? How do you spot a bot or sockpuppet and try understand their influence? In this session, we will discuss the traits of bots/sockpuppets, how they infiltrate digital “public” spheres, and how to combat them. Lunch will be served. Please sign up at the URL.

This session broaches the topic of digital publishing. What does it mean to be publishing scholarship online? How do new modes of digital publishing and scholarly communication relate to older print and face-to-face models? What is worth preserving from older systems and what begs for radical transformation and reinvention? How are both the financial and status economies of academia changing with the transition to digital publishing?

Panelists: Sarah Laursen (Art History), Matt Lawrence (Sociology), Alex Lyford (Math), Jason Mittell, (FMMC), Caitlin Myers (Economics), Amy Morsman (History), Phil Murphy (MIIS)

Drop-in group advising for Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) applicants with Dean Gates. Bring your application questions! Find more Fellowships information at http://go.middlebury.edu/fellowships. A zoom link to participate will be provided when you register.

Part of the Contemporary Teaching in the Liberal Arts Series, Senator Ruth Hardy will lead a workshop on how faculty across all disciplines can apply their academic expertise to help solve pressing policy issues before state and local governments in Vermont. For more details and to register see the Faculty Development Calendar at go/ctlr.

EVENT LOCATION: Davis Family Library 225 (CTLR)

The Writing and Rhetoric Program (WRPR) and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) welcome Frankie Condon to speak about anti-racist pedagogies. This talk is about the significance of critical self-reflection to actionable anti-racist commitments in the design and development of anti-racist pedagogies across a variety of disciplines. Participants should expect both an exploration of critical race theory as it pertains to teaching and examples of what that theory might look like in action in the university classroom.

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a British scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. The deadline for the British nomination application is April 7, 2019. Detailed information is available at go.middlebury.edu/fellowships.

What happens to our reading of literature if the role of the paratext (the ancillary materials surround texts), instead of the text, is foregrounded? Using Edward Said’s notion of the contrapuntal, I discuss how digital modes of analysis facilitate a concurrent process of close and distant readings of paratexts in Arabic-to-English translations. Digital analysis brings to the surface power dynamics—in terms of gender, colonialism, and other key topics—buried in paratexts such as glossaries. Lunch will be served. Suggested readings and please sign up at url for event.

A two-day symposium to kickoff the DLA project Atlantic World Forum: Reimagining the Online Scholarly Roundtable, Reshaping the Global Digital Humanities, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.

Find all of the symposium schedule here: http://awf.middcreate.net/category/program-schedule/