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January 31: Patrick Jagoda, “Videogames as Experimental Method”
Jan. 25, 2018—Wednesday, January 31, 4:10 pm Center for Digital Humanities, 344 Buttrick Hall Patrick Jagoda Patrick Jagoda is Associate Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is also a co-editor of Critical Inquiry and co-founder of both the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab. Most recently, he is the author...
Lisa Gitelman (NYU) at Vanderbilt, January 18-19, 2018
Jan. 2, 2018—CMAP is proud to host media scholar Lisa Gitelman (New York University) on January 18 & 19, 2018, at Vanderbilt University. Gitelman is a media historian whose research concerns American book history, techniques of inscription, and the new media of yesterday and today. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new...
DH-Enhanced UG Course by CMAP student Kellie Cavagnaro
Oct. 30, 2017—Anthropologist Kellie Cavagnaro is a graduate student in Vanderbilt’s Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP) joint-PhD program. Building on her CMAP and Digital Humanities experience at Vanderbilt, she will offer a new undergraduate course in Spring 2018 that will integrate a series of curricular and instructional designs that connect students with on-campus media experts, and structure class time to include...
Speaker Series: Careers Beyond the Academy (10/26/17)
Oct. 21, 2017—The Curb Center, CMAP, and the Department of English are co-sponsoring a speaker series, featuring former Vanderbilt PhDs who have careers outside academia. The first speaker in this series will be Lisa Niles who will speak to interested graduated students (and graduate students only) on October 26, 2017, at 4:10 pm:
CMAP 8004: Media Ecology offered in Spring 2018
Oct. 9, 2017—CMAP 8004: Media Ecology. Designed to study how media of all sorts have come to define the spaces of human life, action, experience and what we may call “our world.” Focus on the impact of media technologies on built environments such as urban centers, academic learning spaces, museum and gallery settings, hospitals, transitory spaces (airports,...