CFP: UCSB Transcriptions Research Slam
Just wanted to pass this CFP to the greater UC Scholars community, as our department’s Research Slam is consistently my favorite event on campus every year. Developed independently but for similar...
View ArticleGaming at the Intersection of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
Controlling a Super Mario game using only your mind, cameras embedded in Times Square advertisements that watch and respond to the crowds watching them, wireless connections between separate, living...
View ArticleCan Computers Appreciate Gertrude Stein?
Yes, it would seem so. Or at least, with the help of a team of brilliant researchers made up of humanities and digital technologies scholars, computers can at least be asked to try and differentiate...
View ArticleThe New Techno-University in an Age of Unemployment
Submitted by Rochelle Terman on Thu, 04/12/2012, on the Townsend Humanities Lab Blog For as long as we´ve had universities, it appears we´ve had crises of universities. And perhaps now more than ever,...
View ArticleUCSD’s CRCA/CME 40th Anniversary
UC San Diego’s Center for Research on Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and Center for Music Experiment (CME) hosted demos, talks and performances throughout May 1st in celebration of its 40th anniversary....
View ArticleAntiracism, Inc: A (Storified?) Quarter in Review
UC Santa Barbara’s American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (ACGCC), part of the Department of English, just wrapped up its first quarter of events under its new director, Dr. Felice Blake. The...
View ArticleBuilding a DH Feminist Network
As I reported last week, I attended the THATCamp Feminisms conference at Scripps College in Claremont on Friday and Saturday. The weekend kicked off with an early feminist/PoC Wikipedia edit-a-thon...
View ArticleAn Astounding Display of Ladybrainz (Pt. 1): Feminist Infrastructures and...
I was in San Diego this weekend for the Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures conference, an assembly of scholars for the UC FemTechNet: a loose network of feminists doing work in...
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An Astounding Display of Ladybrainz (Pt. 2): Feminist Infrastructures and...
In Part 1 of this series, I gave a more general overview of the Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures conference that I attended at UC San Diego two weekends ago. In Part 2, I want to highlight...
View ArticleCollaborative Scholarship: UCHRI announces the RIDAGA Humanities Studios
This week, UCHRI welcomes four groups of scholars for a weeklong humanities studio residency intensive for the Luce-funded Religions in Diaspora and Global Affairs Initiative (RIDAGA). This group of 22...
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