How is an e-journal different from a printed periodical? What is involved in the production process of an online publication? Electronic resources have been reshaping significantly the ways in which we conduct research, but how are online publications contributing to changing scholarly practices in the Humanities? Come to this talk to find out! 

"Where?" is one of the crucial questions in Humanities research. This presentation will introduce Geographical Information Systems software, highlight its basic functions and illustrate the power of data-driving mapping in the Digital Humanities. Participants are encouraged to bring questions about how their own research might utilize GIS. In this workshop, these questions will be addressed at both a theoretical (can it be done? / what is the value?) and practical (what do I need? / how do I build it?) level.

Kristine Hanna's work focuses on developing collaborative and long lasting relationships with partners to further the mission of the Internet Archive. She works with institutions and foundations to fund and implement existing and/or new projects and programs; including Archive-It, a web archiving service first deployed in 2006 and currently used by over 150 institutions in 44 states.

Public symposium that brings together three key scholars in the field to describe their work and discuss intellectual questions that have shaped their approach to digital humanities. The visiting speakers for this opening event will be Jeffrey Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literature and Director of the metaLAB at Harvard University; Tara McPherson, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California; and Joan Saab, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester.

Members of the public and the Five-College digital humanities community are invited to this showcase of new and ongoing digital humanities work by Five College faculty and staff. Click for a full schedule of the day's events.

Eubanks is the cofounder of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP), a grassroots anti-poverty and welfare rights organization, and teaches in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She edited the cyberfeminist ‘zine Brillo and was active in the community technology center movements in the San Francisco Bay Area and Troy, NY.

As part of a year-long series on gender issues and new media at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, this panel of distinguished speakers from the fields of journalism, security, and leadership development will explore the multiple ways in which questions of physical and virtual security play out for women using media for public engagement, social networking, and journalism. 

The Zine Project
Pax Chmara's project is a collection of works documenting the stories, creativity, written and visual expression of young women in New England. Guiding principles of the project are freedom of expression for all at low or no monetary cost. A book created from the collection will be comprised of zines developed within high school, university and independent women's working groups in Western Massachusetts.

The Role of Social Media in Women Out-of-School Learning in Nigeria
Evelyn Caleb's presentation explores the role which social media plays in women's out-of-school learning in Nigeria. Caleb will examine the state of women's education, the extent of social media usage and the hazards associated with it.

Flashback to Sultana's Dream: Rural Women Journalists using New Media in India 
Disha Mullick draws from the experience of a group of rural women journalists from marginalised communities in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. This presentation looks at whether access to information and new media technology has informed the specific, situated voices of these journalists, as well as the ways reporters represent themselves and their worlds using such technology.  

Considering Some Transnational Aspects of LGBT Digital Media
Eve Ng's presentation touches on the recent study of LGBT media has centered on the media of the U.S. and other Western countries, which have been the source of many well-known films and television programs.  Yet there has been little research on how digital technologies facilitate the production of LGBT media outside of the global North, or how the circulation of LGBT texts globally is informing the production of queer communities and identities in culturally specific spaces. In this talk, Ng draws on interview data and site analyses to examine the production and consumption of LGBT digital media in the global South. In engaging new media research with postcolonial sexuality studies, she considers  questions around media and globalization, the politics of visibility, and sexual citizenship.

Domingo Sánchez-Mesa, Professor at the University of Grenada and Visiting Professor of Spanish at UMass, will present some of the highlights of his research on digital literature and cyberculture, intermediality / transmediality (literature-cinema-videogames) and the didactic application of it in several projects and e-learning courses during the last decade.

Dr. Amhed's work seeks to shed light on an enduring question of American political development: Why no workers' party in the United States? Scholars have attributed this to a variety of structural conditions associated with the nature of nation-state formation. However historical evidence reveals that at least one of these structural conditions - the single member plurality (SMP) electoral system - was not an originary feature of the American political system as many have assumed, but rather was deliberately adopted in 1842 to undermine nascent working class mobilization. In this project Ahmed explores the consequences of the move to SMP during this critical period of labor party formation.

Claire Potter joined the New School for Public Engagement in 2012. She is the author of War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men and the Politics of Mass Culture (Rutgers, 1998) and co-editor of Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.) She teaches courses in social sciences and humanities in the School of Undergraduate Studies and is also a member of the university history department.