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Monday, January 30, 2023

Future Learning Innovation Fellowship

The results of Carleton's inaugural Future Learning Innovation Fellowship competition have been announced, and we're proud to learn that Brian is among the recipients. He will use his Fellowship to develop learning modules to help instructors across the disciplines  integrate Augmented Reality storytelling into their courses. Check out the full... More

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Living from the Dead

Stuart's new book is out! The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let... More

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Omnipresence of Screens: Ideal Projections

On June 29th, Brian will be in conversation with UQAM's Louise Pelletier in a panel for The Ether Medium of Storytelling, a seven-part, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary webinar series on negotiating digital space for culturally-diverse storytelling, organized by the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats with funding from SSHRC.    ... More

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Kathleen Fitzpatrick revisits Neoliberal Tools

"[T]he digital humanities broadly conceived has the potential become not a source of neoliberal tools, but rather a transformative force within the university." Read the whole post... More

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Golden Days, Silver Nights selected for ELC4

We're thrilled to learn that Golden Days, Silver Nights has been chosen for publication in Volume 4 of the Electronic Literature Organization's prestigious Electronic Literature Collection. It's a fantastic collection, and we're proud to be in such excellent... More

Friday, April 30, 2021

DH & Media Studies at Hartwick College

Brian is honoured to return to Hartwick College as part of their 2021 Media Studies, Digital Media, & Digital Humanities Speaker... More

Monday, January 20, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.3

We're still deciding where to place all of our fiducials, most of which survived the trip from Canada intact, and which will eventually function as locative rabbit holes luring readers into the story. But we have to leave one by the Playa de la Malageta, looking back toward the city centre as a warm... More

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga – pt.2

The story's coming along, and we're following closely behind. It really helps to be in the very location of its setting, albeit in a different era. Still, the layers of time here are very tangible, and in places there are tears or glitches in the cityscape that provide actual glimpses of the ancient past.... More

Monday, January 13, 2020

Dispatches from Malaga

We've arrived safe and sound in beautiful Malaga, and our plot is already afoot. We've been familiarizing ourselves with the terrain, and mapping out the appropriate literary and historical documents. We're now preparing to deploy our  colour-code 3D-printed fiducials around the city. Stay tuned for... More

Saturday, September 21, 2019

DH Pedagogy & Design

We're so proud to have a piece in this excellent collection, based in part on our experiences teaching DH at the Summer Institute that we hosted here at Carleton two years ago with our friends from Ottawa U. and elsewhere. “The Undergraduate Summer Intensive: Principles of Pedagogy and Design.” In Crompton, Lane & Siemens, eds. Doing... More

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Building a DH Centre

Brian is honoured to be speaking about his experiences building Digital Humanities labs and programs at Youngstown University's Digital Humanities Symposium: Shaping Digital Narratives, October 19-20.... More

Monday, July 23, 2018

Two New DH Courses

Carleton has two new Digital Humanities Honours seminars on offer in Fall 2018. DIGH4002 asks whether digital media will bring about technological utopia or a dystopian apocalypse. DIGH4004 is a self-directed workshop offering hands-on introduction to new critical, storytelling, and modeling tools. Check out the... More

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