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November 2015

This Thanksgiving, enjoy your turkey and cranberry sauce with a side of Five College Digital Humanities! We've got great events coming up, including micha cárdenas on Friday, December 4th at 2:30 PM at Hampshire College, new videos and resources on our website, and open season on a variety of DH courses for J-Term and the semester to come. 

As always, check out http://5colldh.org/events or follow us on Twitter or Facebook for all upcoming events, opportunities, and information!
micha cárdenas
Friday, December 4th @ 2:30 PM
ASH (Adele Simmons Hall) Auditorium, Hampshire College

The Shift and the Stitch: Trans of Color Poetics

In her 2012 book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities micha cárdenas elaborated a praxis of working with multiple realities, grounded in transgender experience. In her recent work, she continues this project by elaborating a trans of color poetics that can improve the chances of life for transgender women of color, who continue to be the number one target of murder among LGBTQ people in the US. cárdenas will discuss her practice-based research projects, including Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets), Redshift and Portalmetal (Redshift) and Unstoppable. 

micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who creates trans of color movement in digital media, where movement includes migration, performance and mobility. She is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington at Bothell. She completed her Ph.D. in Media Arts + Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and her solo and collaborative work has been seen in museums, galleries, biennials, keynotes, and community and public spaces around the world.

 
New Video: Binyavanga Wainaina in Conversation
Edmond Y. Chang

Thanks to our partnership with local media non-profit Amherst Media, we're pleased to bring you recordings of all of our past speakers and symposia on our website at http://5colldh.org/watch!

We've recently added video from Going Digital: Globalism, Sexuality, Local Identities, and New African Writing, a conversation with noted Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, 5CollDH Director and Amherst Professor of English Marisa Parham, and Amherst Assistant Professor of Black Studies Khary Polk. Check it out!

Watch Binyavanga Wainaina in Conversation!
Upcoming Digital Humanities Courses
 
Media Archaeology, Climate Change, and the Digital (Non)humanities
 
A 5CollDH J-Term Course
1/11/15 to 1/15/15 :: Smith College
1/18/15 to 1/22/15 :: Amherst College
 
Each year, 5CollDH post-bacs offer short, non-credit J-Term courses that introduce participants to critical concepts in the digital humanities and digital cultures. This year, Jeffrey Moro is teaching a course that takes contemporary anxieties around the fractured relationships between technology, climate, and humankind as a starting point for exploring the media history, materiality, and infrastructures of digital technologies. How might the digital humanities and media studies theorize and respond practically to climate upheaval and the idea of the Anthropocene?

Open to all Five College students, staff, and faculty. Taught twice: once at Smith and once at Amherst. Learn more and register at http://ecomedia.5colldh.org. 
 
Community Service with Web-Based Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST)
Spring 2016 @ UMass
Fridays 1:25 to 4:25 // 596WG

This UMass course applies web-based geographic tools to the study, surveying, and analysis of particular community-based problems. Check out their website for more information!
Making Knowledge / Sharing Knowledge
Spring 2016 @ Smith
M/W 1:10 to 4:00 // IDP 260
Taught by Alexandra Keller, Dana Leibsohn


This colloquium examines the life-cycle of knowledge-making: studying what it means to produce knowledge, how one decides how (and with whom) to share one's knowledge, and the implications of having the privilege to engage in such projects. Click here to register!
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