Registration is required at: http://bit.ly/aan2Cl

For credit option available to graduate and advanced undergraduates. An add code for HUM 597B (1 CR, C/NC) is required and can be requested when registering.

Instructors:
Sasha Su-Ling Welland (Anthropology and Women Studies)
Dave Lester (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)
Jentery Sayers (English)

Sessions:
Saturday, October 16, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Communications 202
Friday, October 22, 12:00 p.m. – 2 p.m., Communications 202
Saturday, October 30, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Communications 202

Held in conjunction with The Humanities And Technology Camp (THATCamp) Pacific Northwest 2010 at the University of Washington, this workshop/seminar examines the intersections of cultural research with online publishing, focusing specifically on the collection, circulation, and curation of digital assets (i.e., digital texts, images, video, and audio). Sessions will blend critical theory on scholarly multimedia production, authorship, and design with demonstrations of existing collections, modules on available platforms (e.g., Omeka, Drupal, WordPress), discussions of best practices, and conversations with UW scholars who are currently developing and curating their own collections. Short readings will include material by Johanna Drucker and Walter Benjamin.

Participants will learn about the cultural issues—both technical and theoretical—related to digital collections and how to launch and sustain them. They may also choose to set-up and test a collection.

UW Students receiving credit will write an individual statement of interest (250 words, due prior to the first session) and collaboratively produce a needs assessment (written during the final session). With the permission of those enrolled, the needs assessment will be made public and circulated online.

Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Related Events (not required for participation or credit):

LECTURE:
Johanna Drucker (Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles),
Friday, October 22
5 p.m.
Henry Art Gallery, UW Seattle

UNCONFERENCE:
THATCamp PNW 2010
Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24,
UW Seattle campus
http://thatcamppnw.org/

• Are you interested in the relationship between globalization and Asia?
• Do you want to learn more about how historical and contemporary global movements of people, things, and ideas matter in everyday lives?
• Do you care about questions of equality and social justice in a transnational context?

This interdisciplinary course—cross-listed in Anthropology, Asian Studies, and Women Studies—uses a feminist lens to examine how Asia as a region has been constructed through multiple global, and usually gendered, interactions, including imperialism, revolutionary anti-colonialism, travel and tourism, transnational labor and markets, and globalizing forms of popular culture. Our sites of inquiry range from the factory floor to the hip hop club, from international politics to intimate family relations. Students collectively create an on-line Global Asia Illustrated Compendium of Keywords and gain knowledge along the way about how to use the following digital tools for academic purposes: WordPress, Zotero, and Google Maps.

Global Asia satisfies the Women Studies major requirement for an upper division course focusing on transnational questions and perspectives.

For more information, see the course website. The course website will be updated for Autumn 2010 by the end of August. Check back then for the latest.

Full image captions: “A Modern Girl’s Belongings,” manga illustration, 1928; “Night of Celebration,” PRC propaganda poster (detail), 1964; Kohei Japan, kabuki woodblock CD jacket (detail), 2000.