Digital Liberal Arts (DLA)

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?

Digital environments can robustly foster access, inclusion, and full participation. They also can disadvantage and exclude. This interactive session spotlights simple ways to reduce barriers using digital tool and spaces, and ways to promote accessibility within digital worlds. No prior experience or preparation required. Curiosity and lived wisdom welcome.

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To prepare for the Anna & Elizabeth Smithsonian Folkways album The Invisible Comes To Us, Anna Roberts-Gevalt conducted research in the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College’s Special Collections and Archives. Come join us for a special event in Special Collections space itself to explore this fascinating collection of Vermont and New England traditional music with Anna

Location:  Davis Family Library 101

Cheryl E. Ball, Director, Digital Publishing Collaborative — Wayne State University; Editor, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Executive Director, Council of Editors of Learned Journals

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.

Grace Spatafora, Michelle Lehman & Daniel Houghton discuss a collaboration between a biologist and a student in Middlebury’s Animation Studio. Lunch will be served. Please sign up at the URL

Sayaka Abe presents her analysis of Japanese emotion concepts drawn from mangaas a possible medium for language pedagogy. In contrast to traditional textbooks, her research imagines authentic materials such as manga as rich sources of social situations captured through words, images, and stories.

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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/

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/