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“Free, fair, and Alive: The Commons and the Post-Capitalist Future”

Globalism and capitalism as we know it are failing us — and the evidence is all around us in the destruction of our environment, and the privatization of our shared wealth. What can we do to shift the story line, and re-write our future? What alternatives do we have at hand?

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.

Special Collections, LIB101 Davis Family Library

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.

Join Special Collections staff for a pop-up bookmaking workshop in honor of current library exhibits celebrating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Special Collections holds collections of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, films, and other unique materials that tell the Middlebury story and the stories of our collective past.

EVENT LOCATION: Special Collections, Davis Family Library, Lower Level

This cryptoparty is the first of a series that focuses on the FAANG companies. Participants will focus on Facebook, and actively take steps to protect their privacy while learning about how our data is collected and shared. We ask that all attendees bring their own laptop so that they can take the benefits of these activities with them.

About FAANG Companies (De-FAANGing Facebook https://dlinq.middcreate.net/digital-literacy/de-faanging-facebook/)

Make an up-cycled paper rose for your best gal, guy, prof… or self! We’ll be using pages from discarded books.

Location:  Special Collections, Davis LIB101 

Patrick Wallace (Digital Projects & Archives Librarian) will introduce a selection of current techniques used to harvest web and social media content for preservation and research. Rather than a user tutorial or deep dive into technical arcana, the discussion will draw on examples from Special Collections’ digital projects to illustrate how popular websites and mobile applications—such as Twitter and Facebook—confound historical memory through legal and technical means.

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.

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.