Yea, Maine! Thank you, Christopher, for volunteering to organize this.  I live in Maine only part time, and always look for a reason to be there.  I would love to facilitate a workshop.

I realize this is a little belated, but I just wanted to say I had an extraordinary time at THATCamp Feminisms East 2013.  I think I felt more inspired and empowered than I have felt in a long time. It was wonderful to be around so many feminists who are excited about humanities and technology and who are willing to share and collaborate!  I don’t know about y’all, but I shook my head and said, “I’m not a duck; I’m a swan, after all.”

Cheers, to my sister and brother swans!

Hands on workshop learning how to use the tools that you ALREADY have (or can buy for under $5.00) to make short videos. Come with footage from the conference and create a collaborative video where EVERYONE gets to contribute footage and make the edits. Bring ideas for a video that you want to create and learn how to take the next step. Work together, alone, with assistance. Just get those videos rolling!
Not platform specific. Mac, PC, Linux, phones, tablets, phablets, cameras.

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Led by Natalia Cecire, this brief, partial, and situated introduction will explore the diversity of disciplinary foundations, methodologies, and practices of digital humanities. After an overview, we will look at a number of existing projects and discuss some core issues in digital humanities, including developing standards for evaluation, the role of collaboration, and open access.

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Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to manage and describe digital images, audio files, videos, and texts; to put such digital objects online in a searchable database; and to create attractive web exhibits from them. In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll create your own digital archive of images, audio, video, and texts that meets scholarly metadata standards and creates a search engine-optimized website. We’ll go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka and the open source server-side version of Omeka, look at examples of Omeka archives and exhibits, and discuss other possible uses.

This workshop is intended for campers that have no previous experience with Omeka.

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Could we perhaps have a conversation about feminist ways of thinking and doing (or also maybe undoing) aesthetics, in various digital media/fields/projects?  I am wondering about: concepts of the beautiful, looking/gazing relationships and power, embodiment, ephemerality, iconography, taste, value, utility, accessibility, and more. What aspects of feminist digital culture might illuminate the political and the social in the aesthetic? How do we all make design decisions, and what informs these decisions (or are they being decided for us?) These are just some questions to consider.

Some readings:

Gharavi, Maryam Monalisa. “Repeating Faces.” The New Inquiry, 7 March 2013. thenewinquiry.com/blogs/southsouth/repeating-faces/. Accessed 3/15/13.

Ngai, Sianne. “Zany, Cute, Interesting: Sianne Ngai on Our Aesthetic Categories.” The Margins. Asian American Writers Workshop, 7 February 2013. aaww.org/our-aesthetic-categories-zany-cute-interesting/. Accessed 3/15/13.

Russell, Legacy. “Digital Dualism and the Glitch Feminism Manifesto.” Cyborgology, 10 December 2012. thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/12/10/digital-dualism-and-the-glitch-feminism-manifesto/. Accessed 3/15/13.

SESSION NOTES

As many of you know, THATCamp Feminisms East is happening simultaneously with THATCamp Feminisms West at Scripps College and THATCamp Feminisms South at Emory University. We are very excited about the opportunity to follow and connect with these sister events in the twittersphere using the following hashtags:

THATCamp Feminisms East:  #tcfe

THATCamp Feminisms West:  #tcfw

THATCamp Feminisms South: #tcfso

THATCamp Feminisms (All): #tcfem

How you use the hashtags is up to you, but all tweets attached to a hashtag will be archived and made accessible to participants post-camp.

Want to follow other campers at THATCamp Feminisms East? Check out the THATCamp Feminisms East list.

Want to participate in the conversation, but don’t have an account? Create one! Then check out some useful tips here, and let us know if you’d like a brief orientation to Twitter.

Happy tweeting!!

Registration for THATCamp Feminisms East is officially open! To register, fill out the form on the Register page and we will email you with information regarding the status of your registration as soon as possible. If you decide that you can no longer attend, please let us know so we may give the seat to another participant.
Questions? Email us at ajonas@barnard.edu.

The Barnard Center for Research on Women will host THATCamp Feminisms East on Saturday, March 16th, at Barnard College. Stay tuned for more details! Registration coming soon. Have questions or want to get involved? Contact ajonas@barnard.edu.

Meanwhile, read more about the THATCamp movement and browse other THATCamps at thatcamp.org.