The fifth HASTAC conference, HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress, is taking place in Toronto this weekend. I can’t be there, but Fiona Barnett, the amazing and wonderful director of…
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Read moreI’ve just come back from the 2011 HASTAC Conference. And if this blog leads you to think that I’ve been to an astonishing number of conferences recently, you’d be right.…
Read moreA ferment of planning is afoot in what I find it difficult not to think of as digital humanities fandom. After Natalia Cecire’s great blog post a couple of weeks…
Read moreThis weekend, I attended the LA Queer Studies conference. I’ve been every year since I first moved to LA in 2006, and presented three times; it’s a wonderful, welcoming conference…
Read moreI’ve just spent quite an exhiliarating weekend attending the Modern Language Association in Los Angeles. MLA had previously been known to me by reputation as a terrifyingly large conference, a…
Read moreOver at HASTAC, there’s an interesting conversation going on about Openness in Academia. I am especially enjoying the ways different definitions of openness are being connected and examined: accessibility not…
Read moreI’m involved in the Duke University and MacArthur-sponsored HASTAC this year, as a HASTAC scholar. I’ve been following the conversations and events associated with HASTAC and its various members for…
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