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Are you working on a large writing project? Scrivener can help! Scrivener is a software program that breaks down your writing into manageable “chunks,” and brings your research and writing together into a single conceptual workspace. You will learn how to create a new writing project in Scrivener, import existing work, and how to outline, research, and write with Scrivener’s unique conceptual features. For more information on Scrivener, visit go.middlebury.edu/scrivener.

The shaping of our data shapes modern digital humanities scholarship. This lecture will explore this proposition in detail, looking at the ways in which tools, working practices, research questions, and disciplinary identity intersect with questions of data modeling. As the field matures, we possess increasingly sophisticated models for expressing time, space, cultural formations, language structures, visual forms. What level of knowledge and control over models do we need to engage productively and responsibly as scholars in the digital age?

Open discussion around computer security topics such as phishing, internet safety, and general safe computing.

Special Collections, Davis Family Library 101 To mark Founder’s Day, the original Middlebury College Charter signed by the Governor of Vermont on November 1st, 1800 will be on view in Special Collections on Nov. 2nd. Stop by and see it and other documents from the College Archives that date from the time of our founding.

Where:  Special Collections, Library 101

To mark Founder’s Day, the original Middlebury College Charter signed by the Governor of Vermont on November 1st, 1800 will be on view in Special Collections. Stop by and see it and other documents from the College Archives that date from the time of our founding.

Middlebury is just beginning to embrace its complexity as a source of strength and as a competitive advantage. Despite the possibilities, we face difficulties with the multi-dimensional ways we must work together across the institution. “Remote Work and Distance Collaboration” is a 2-hour, hybrid community-initiated conversation that will be held synchronously in Middlebury and Monterey, with live participation from around the web. We’ll explore both ideological and technological solutions to the challenges we face when working at a distance.

Jamie McCallum (SOAN) will screen his short film “The Real Work,” collaboratively produced with students and alumni during his Digital Liberal Arts (DLA) fellowship. He will then discuss the challenges of conveying sociological ideas through film and the tension between creating a documentary and constructing a scripted narrative through which those sociological ideas emerge. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP at go/DLAscenes.