General Audience

Sarah Patterson & Jim Casey Digital Dialogue: 'To Organize, Organize, ORGANIZE: the Colored Conventions, Then and Now'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, November 08, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Staking a claim in collaborative models of digital archiving, exhibition and geo-spatial visualization, University of Delaware scholars Sarah Patterson and Jim Casey will introduce questions, concepts and outcomes central to the Colored Conventions Project’s online restoration of the Colored Conventions Movement, 1830-1900.

Alberto Campagnolo Digital Dialogue: 'Conservation and Digitization: A Technologizing of the Book as an Object'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, November 01, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Alberto Campagnolo, Library of Congress Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies, will present this talk about what would otherwise be invisible to us.

Ravon Ruffin Digital Dialogue: 'Digital Archives: Radical Acts of Self-Preservation'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Ravon Ruffin is co-creator of Brown Girls Museum Blog, a site to promote the visibility of minority communities as museum professionals, audiences, and creatives.

Gregory Zinman Digital Dialogue: 'Nam June Paik’s Etude and the Indeterminate Origins of Digital Media Art'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Georgia Tech, assistant professor of Film and Media Greg Zinman will present this talk on the discovery and significance of Etude (1967), a previously unknown work by media artist Nam June Paik identified by the author in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s recently-acquired Paik archive.

Digital Dialogue: 'Deviant Black Bodies and Embodied Black Feminism in the Blogosphere'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Catherine Knight Steele's talk will focus on African American culture and discourse in mass and new media.

Purdom Lindblad Digital Dialogue: 'Finding Aids for the Unread: Design for the Visualization of Reading'

MITH Conference Room

Tuesday, October 04, 2016 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

New MITH Assistant Director of Innovation and Learning Purdom Lindblad will lead this discussion about reading as a way to open ourselves to deepen empathy and entice our curiosity. Influenced by feminist interface design, this talk will focus on the design and creation of visualizations – as finding aids, and as maps into the landscape of a personal corpus. These visualizations enable movement between big-picture views of the corpus and close-readings of individual books, and can reveal adjacent thematic possibilities.