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SUMMARY:Disney Fairies Film Series
DESCRIPTION:Philip Tan\, Research Scientist \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions\nPrereq: None \nThe “Disney Fairies” series launched in 2005 with new novels based on the tales of Peter Pan. From the novels and plays of J.M. Barrie and the animated films by Walt Disney Productions\, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine developed an elaborate mythology for the fairies of Neverland. The lead character\, Tinker Bell\, moved from “Disney Princess” marketing efforts into a separate franchise of chapter books\, comics\, and merchandise. Following Disney’s purchase of Pixar\, direct-to-DVD productions of Disney Fairies were restarted and debuted with the 3D computer-animated film “Tinker Bell” in 2008. \nWhile visually consistent with Disney’s earlier interpretations of Neverland\, some may find the characterization and the tone of the films surprising. Barrie’s century-old “common pots-and-pans fairy” is reinterpreted as a titular heroine with a unique talent for invention and engineering. Most of the films revolve around Tinker Bell’s ability to construct incredible machines and her irrepressible drive to find and fix “lost things.” The mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems\, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts. \nChildren with adult supervision are welcome. Each screening will be followed by an optional\, moderated discussion with participants\, which may venture into playful\, activist\, academic or headcanon topics. \nThis event aims to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Philip Tan\, 26-149\, 617 324-9129\, PHILIP@MIT.EDU \n\nScreening times\n\n\n\n\nJan/07\nWed\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell\n\n\n\nJan/09\nFri\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure\n\n\n\nJan/12\nMon\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue\n\n\n\nJan/14\nWed\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, Pixie Hollow Games & Secret of the Wings\n\n\n\nJan/16\nFri\n02:00PM-03:30PM\n2-105\, The Pirate Fairy\n\n\n\nChildren are welcome to the screenings (with adult supervision\, please!) \n\nOptional Discussion\n\n\n\n\nJan/07\nWed\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/09\nFri\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/12\nMon\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/14\nWed\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nJan/16\nFri\n03:30PM-04:30PM\n2-105\n\n\n\nA moderated discussion and critique of the themes\, representation\, development\, marketing\, problems and solutions presented by the Tinker Bell films and media franchise. The session will start after a 10-minute intermission after the screening. Participation in the discussion is completely optional.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/disney-fairies-film-series/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What's It All About?
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what the chatter is about digital humanities (DH)? Come ask questions and share what you know. Let’s talk about the impact of computation on the humanities\, about where it can takes us\, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who’s doing what where in DH at MIT? \nContact: Patsy Baudoin\, 14S-140M\, 617 253-4979\, PATSY@MIT.EDU
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-about-digital-humanities-patsy-baudoin/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14N\, Room 217\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Knitting for Programmers
DESCRIPTION:Image by Flickr user anna banana\nJan/20 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM \nJan/21 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM \nEnrollment: Advance sign-up appreciated but not required \nIf you ever wanted to know the link between knitting and programming this is the workshop for you. A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing. The 1st day we will review fundamentals\, learn basics and start a small project (hat\, scarf or bag depending on skills)\, and the 2nd day we will work on the project. Students will have to get their own supplies but can contact the instructor for help in type/quantities of wool and needles. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Marie-Jose Montpetit\, mariejo@mit.edu
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LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Collaborative Insights through Digital Annotation: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking the Connections between Annotation\, Reading\, & Writing\nTo register\, please sign up here. \nInstructors and students in the humanities and the liberal arts increasingly work in an electronically supported and extended world of multimedia texts.  Digital archives\, online media repositories\, and new tools for creating digital content have not only changed the way students interact with cultural content\, they have also radically changed the landscape within which learning can take place. Digital content has broken down the barriers separating traditional learning environments such as the solitary scholar\, the library\, and the classroom. Access to digitally based knowledge and cultural content with opportunities for new learning environments requires instructors to reevaluate their existing pedagogical methods and their roles in the classroom. Instructors are faced with the challenge of how to respond to this shift\, how to innovate and redesign their roles and curricula. \nIn this workshop\, we investigate one possible solution to this challenge: digital annotation.  Digital annotation brings the long humanistic tradition of annotation\, one of John Unsworth’s “scholarly primitives\,” into contemporary electronic media.  Within a digital learning environment\, annotation allows for a new form of interactive reading\, one that can seamlessly transition between traditional forms of solitary highlighting or note taking to collaborative close reading or shared discussions about particular passages.  Participants in this workshop will discuss the opportunities digital annotation tools create for new forms of social engagement with the text\, for students to share ideas\, interpretations\, references\, sources\, adaptations\, or other related media with peers and other readers that significantly change the way students acquire and produce knowledge. \nThe keynote speaker will be John Bryant\, Professor of English at Hofstra University.  Professor Bryant received his BA\, MA\, and PhD from the University of Chicago and is the author of several books and over 60 articles on Melville\, related writers of the nineteenth-century\, scholarly editing\, and digital scholarship. The former Editor of the Melville Society (1990-2013)\, he created and edited Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies\, which was designated CELJ’s Best New Journal of 2000 (runner up). His book Melville Unfolding: Sexuality\, Politics\, and the Versions of Typee (Michigan 2008) draws upon his online fluid-text edition\, titled Herman Melville’s Typee\, appearing in the Rotunda electronic imprint (University of Virginia\, 2006)\, which was the second electronic edition to be awarded the MLA-CSE seal of approval.  His other books include A Companion to Melville Studies\, Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (Oxford 1993)\, and The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen (Michigan\, 2002).  He has published several editions of Melville works\, including Typee (Penguin)\, The Confidence-Man (Random House)\, Melville’s Tales\, Poems\, and Other Writings (Modern Library)\, and the Longman Critical Edition of Moby-Dick. He is currently working on a critical biography titled Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life (Wiley) and on the NEH-funded Melville Electronic Library (MEL)\, an online critical archive designated as a “We the People” project. In 2013\, he was appointed Director of Hofstra’s new Digital Research Center.  In 2014\, he taught America literature during the spring semester at the University of Rome (Sapienza) on a Fulbright Fellowship\, and he sailed on the restored 19th-century whaling craft Charles W. Morgan as part of his Melville biography research. \nProgram (preliminary) \nFriday\, January 23\, 2015\nMIT\, Building 66\, Room 110 \n8:30 am   Coffee\n9:00 am   Introduction by Kurt Fendt\, Executive Director of HyperStudio\, MIT\n9:15 am   Keynote Address by John Bryant\, Professor of English\, Hofstra University\n10:15 am Panel #1 Digital Annotation and the Writing Process \n\nSuzanne Lane\, Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric and Communication\, and Director of the Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Professional Communication program\, MIT\nMary Isbell\, Assistant Professor of English & Director of First-Year Writing Program\, University of New Haven\nAlex Mueller\, Assistant Professor of English\, University of Massachusetts\, Boston\n\n11:15 am   Breakout Sessions\n12:30 pm   Lunch\nLunch will be provided (Swissbäkers)\n1:30 pm    Future Directions of Annotation Studio with Jamie Folsom\, Leader Developer at HyperStudio\, MIT\n1:45 pm    Panel #2 Digital Annotation and the Reading Process \n\nWyn Kelley\, Senior Lecturer in Literature\, MIT\nIna Lipkowitz\, Lecturer in Literature\, MIT\nRoberto Rey Agudo\, Lecturer in Global Studies and Languages\, MIT\nEthna D. Lay\, Assistant Professor\, Hofstra University\n\n2:45 pm   Breakout Sessions\n4:00 pm   Andreas Karastolis\, Associate Director of Writing Across the Curriculum\, MIT\n4:30 pm   Conclusion \nTo register\, please sign up here.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/collaborative-insights-through-digital-annotation-workshop/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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