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January 29th, 2014, 2:00–6:30 p.m. Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ (map) Introduction Meredith McGill New Tools, New Disciplines? (2:10–2:55 p.m.) Opening comments by Andrew Urban Social Media Adoption by Medievalists Kristen Mapes (Library and Information Science) The American Historical Review and the Digital Turn Belinda Davis (History) The Online Certificate in Women’s Global Health Nafisa Tanjeem (Women’s and Gender Studies) The American Studies Media Culture Program Christopher Rzigalinski (American Studies) New Media, New Methods (3:00–3:55 p.m.) Opening comments by Ann Fabian Citation Patterns: Charting Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Octavio Gonzalez (English) Figures Don’t Lie: Spatial Humanities andRead More →

Digital Humanities Showcase: Call for Proposals Submit by December 6, 2013Showcase on January 29, 2014 In recent years, the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities (DH) has emerged as one of the most exciting new approaches to research, teaching, and public outreach in the humanities. The digital humanities aim to bring humanistic inquiry and digital technologies together, organizing new modes of archival research, developing computer-aided methodologies for answering humanistic questions, curating digitized archives of all kinds, bringing digital platforms into the classroom in creative ways, and engaging critically with the culture of new media. In order to celebrate the range of DH scholarship already underway atRead More →