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DH Showcase 2017 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2017 Teleconference Lecture Hall Scholarly Communication Center Alexander Library, 4th Floor 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, New Jersey Join us on Thursday, March 23rd, for the DH Showcase featuring a series of talks on the digital work of graduate students and faculty in American Studies, Classics, English, History, and Library and Information Science, at Rutgers and beyond. We’ll also hear from our inaugural group of DH seed grant recipients – A.J. Blandford (History), Alex Leslie (English), and Jamie Pietruska (History) – on the research supported through this program. A reception will follow the talks. Download the flyer.Read More →

[Crossposted from http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/cfp/] Call for Papers Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Conference Dates: Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2016 Proposals Due: April 3rd History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as the intuition of algorithms and their consequences. The gamer is a designer. Mckenzie Wark, “Gamer Theory” Extending Play 3 asks important questions about the temporalities of play from emergent scholarly perspectives: Can media archaeology and game preservation revise the history ofRead More →