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"Out of the Attic and into the Stacks: The Feminism in LIS Unconference" at UW-M – and Why We Desperately Need It

sarahr — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:38:10 +0000

Scholar Class 2012

Why attend the NCTech4Good Unconference?

Ruby Sinreich — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:57:47 +0000

You might have gotten an e-mail or a tweet recently about something called the "NCTech4Good Unconference." You are probably wondering whether it is worth one's time on a pretty Saturday to sit inside with a bunch of nerds, especially if (like me) this is how you already spent most of your week.

Well, let me tell you why I'll be there.

What’s an "unconference" and why am I so excited about it!

Ruby Sinreich — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:01:45 +0000

HASTAC is hosting and facilitating the first-ever NCTech4Good Unconference on April 16th.

THATCamp is coming to Australia

tim — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:21:33 +0000

One of the things that’s keeping me busy at the moment is THATCamp Canberra. Yes, I got sick of missing out on all the THATCamp fun happening elsewhere and decided we should have our own.

THATCamp Canberra is a user-generated unconference on the digital humanities. It’ll be held at the University of Canberra on 28–29 August. We’re getting a great mix of applications and I’m really looking forward to learning about what’s going on around Australia.

Applications close on 23 July, so get yours in soon!

Episode 56 – Past Play

Mills Kelly — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:47:18 +0000

While sitting in our offices and wishing we were outside in the beautiful spring weather, Tom, Dan, and Mills took a virtual journey north of the border to talk to Kevin Kee and Bill Turkel about their recent conference Playing With Technology in History at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Kevin is the director of the Simulating History Lab at Brock University and Bill is the guru of the Lab for Humanistic Fabrication. In addition to discussing the conference and Kevin’s and Bill’s work on the cutting edge–perhaps even bleeding edge–of digital humanities, we also debated the pros and cons of the unconference model for academic meetings and whether we thought that “play” was an appropriate objective for history teachers. Kevin also gave us a sneak preview of the mobile history app he and his team are developing to coincide with the bicentennial of the War of 1812. If you don’t have any idea what “humanistic fabrication” is or if you’ve never pondered whether or not you need a MakerBot, you definitely need to listen to the podcast.

Links mentioned on the podcast:
History Education Network/Histoire et Éducation en Réseau
CraftRobo
Arduinos
Rob MacDougall on Barely Games

Running time: 50:01
Download the .mp3