Digital Liberal Arts (DLA)

This lunchtime talk, by Professor Daryle Williams of the University of Maryland, will cover one historian’s journey through a burgeoning academic subfield known as black digital humanities.  Special focus will be placed on the structural, circumstantial, and accidental conditions that led a somewhat conventional text-bound humanist to embrace digital tools of inquiry, analysis, and knowledge production.

An informal dinner for Music Department students and anyone else who is interested to chat about a recent collaboration with the Animation Studio that led to the creation of the animated short film “Estrellita (Little Star).”

An informal dinner for Music Department students and anyone else who is interested to chat about a recent collaboration with the Animation Studio that led to the creation of the animated short film “Estrellita (Little Star).”

The wonderful Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Vermont native and one half of Smithsonian Folkways recording artists Anna & Elizabeth, visits Middlebury College from April 2-5, 2019 for a series of public events connected to Michael J. Kramer’s Digitizing Folk Music History seminar.

Come join us for some exploratory deep listening and field recording. Equipment can be checked out from Davis Family Library or just use your mobile phone or own recording device, or just bring your ears to walk and listen.

The wonderful Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Vermont native and one half of Smithsonian Folkways recording artists Anna & Elizabeth, visits Middlebury College from April 2-5, 2019 for a series of public events connected to Michael J. Kramer’s Digitizing Folk Music History seminar.

Come join us for some exploratory deep listening and field recording. Equipment can be checked out from Davis Family Library or just use your mobile phone or own recording device, or just bring your ears to walk and listen.

Lightning Round Presentations—Faculty Project Workshops

More information to be announced.

The “fair use” section of the U.S. Code (17 U.S. Code §107) contains barely 170 words, and yet these few words have enormous consequences for many crucial spheres of activity in our society. Fair use allows journalists to quote sources in their reporting, reviewers and commenters to reproduce portions of works under discussion, and provides researchers with the freedom to build upon ideas and discoveries that have preceded them. In other words, it is a key component in the promotion of the “sciences and useful arts” as laid out in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

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.

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.