5CollDH Student Fellowships, New Rigor II, Upcoming speakers and more!

This Friday: Deadline for Undergraduate Student Fellowships + Join us for The New Rigor II!

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October 2015

A chill is in the air, and that means it's time for us to kick off some exciting Five College Digital Humanities events! This week alone, we have the deadline for our Undergraduate Student Fellowships, and our second New Rigor conference. We're also thrilled to announce three upcoming speakers:

Binyavanga Wainaina (Wednesday, October 21st)
Nick Montfort (Thursday, November 5th)
micha cárdenas (Friday, December 4th)

As always, check out http://5colldh.org /events or follow us on Twitter or Facebook for all upcoming events, opportunities, and information!

Undergraduate Student Fellowships:
Apply by this Friday, October 16th!

Applications for our Undergraduate Student Fellowships are due this Friday, October 16th! Submit your applications at http://5colldh.org/apply, where you can also learn more about the fellowship, get answers to questions about applications, and learn also about our Monthly Microgrants for small DH projects. You can also check out videos from our Student Symposium and our Sandbox blog to hear from past fellows.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Wednesday, October 21st

Going Digital: Globalism, Sexuality, Local Identities, and New African Writing
A Conversation with Khary Polk and Marisa Parham
8 AM to 10 AM, Center for Humanisitic Inquiry, Frost Library, Amherst College

Wainaina Reads From His Latest Work
6 PM, Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College

Binyavanga Wainaina is Kenyan author, publisher, and cultural worker. He is the founding editor of one of Africa's leading literary institutions, Kwani?, an enterprise that utilizes a vast range of digital and social media strategies to develop, promote, and share new African writing. His satirical essay, "How to Write About Africa" attracted international attention in 2005, and his memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, has been translated into 7 languages. In April 2014, Wainaina was named one of the most influential people in the world by TIME magazine.

The New Rigor II: Electric Boogaloo
Friday, October 16th, 2:30 PM
Paino Lecture Hall, Amherst College

The New Rigor is an ongoing conversation about linking our digital scholarship to useful structures of support and assessment.

After our successful one-day conference in May, we're eager to continue and expand on the great conversations and first steps we took toward developing a community sense of how we might construe rigor flexibly, while also supporting the creative energies that drive scholarly insight. On Friday, October 16th, at 2:30 PM in Paino Lecture Hall, Amherst College, we're getting together—The New Rigor II: The Riggening / 2New2Rigor / Electric Rigorzoo / First Blood / The New Rigor Too / The New Rigor II: The Rigor Strikes Back—again to move one step closer to formalizing Five College community members' thoughts and suggestions for supporting digital scholarship in the Five Colleges. Register here to join us!

5CollDH Speaker Series Fall Edition:
Nick Montfort & micha cárdenas

Nick Montfort
Associate Professor of Digital Media, MIT
Thursday, November 5th, Amherst College

Nick Montfort is a poet who develops literary generators and other modes of computational art and writing. He is a faculty member at MIT, where he teaches on platform studies, critical code studies, and electronic literature.

micha cárdenas
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
Friday, December 4th, Hampshire College

micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who creates and studies trans of color movements in digital media, with special attention to matters of migration, performance, and mobility. Her work has been seen in museums, galleries, biennials, and public spaces around the world.

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