A Queer Decade
A Queer Decade is a Spring Lecture Series sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. MITH's archive features links into the video galleries of both 2003 and 2004's guest lecturers. All videos are presented in Quicktime format.
Beckett directs Beckett
In 1985 Samuel Beckett directed "Waiting for Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape" and "Endgame" as stage pieces with the San Quentin Players. All three productions were grouped together under the overall title "Beckett Directs Beckett." As such they toured throughout Europe and in some parts of Asia to wide acclaim. Furthermore, each time a new tour was organized for these productions, after sometimes lengthy lacunae, Beckett has, with the assistance of Walter Asmus, and/or Alan Mandell, brought them back to performance level.
Business Russian
This exciting Web-based language learning project has been developed jointly by the Maryland Institute for Technology for the Humanities (MITH) and the development team at Russnet. Russnet is a Russian-Language field resource center which provides Russian-language learning services and products - information, language modules, courses, materials, in-service teacher training, databases, discussion forums, and gateways to other Russian language resources.
Center for East Asians Studies
In addition to administering the undergraduate Certificate Program in East Asian Studies, the Center provides information on courses and public events and presents lectures, creative performances and exhibitions, scholarly conferences, and film series for the University and larger community. The Center also engages in fund raising for library resources, staff expansion, outreach programs, non-print teaching materials, and student scholarships and internships.
DISC: A Disabilities Studies Academic Community
The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated, digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information that sustains a disability studies academic community and promotes disability studies in a humanities focus. DISC is built by the disability studies community through your contributions of information. Begin by signing yourself in as a user and contributor.
Emily Dickinson: Technology and Mythobiography
With this project, Carol Burbank hopes to use Director, Photoshop, and various sound editing resources to create a template that allows us to perceive--not Dickinson, already encoded and lost to us as icon, as history, as metaphor, meshed in the ways we perform our narratives--but the haunting of perception's loss and gain through mobile and sensual representations of our relationships with the poet's work.
Feminism and Writing Technologies
Katie King began thinking about feminism and writing technologies while working in the early 80s on her dissertation, which was on academic editorial practices and feminist political practices making these interesting literary objects sometimes called "poems." She looked specifically at the literary productions and literary histories of Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde and the social and institutional practices that shaped their work to look like what folks in their time periods and cohorts of action would call "poems."
Flare Productions, Inc.
Flare Productions is a not-for-profit filmmaking organization founded to produce artistic, deeply-researched, lively and engaging films which can be viewed with enjoyment both by people who already know a great deal about a subject and those who are being introduced to it for the first time.
Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
ELO
The Electronic Literature Organization’s Future of Electronic Literature Symposium at MITH at the University of Maryland, College Park, was a great event, bringing together e-lit writers, scholars, and an interested public together for an open mouse/open mic, a daylong symposium, and an ELO board meeting.
Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam
An archive of the Quicktime movie clips filmed during the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam, an event featured at Maryland Day, 2004. The event was sponsored by MITH and the David C. Driskell Center.
Hughes@100
Links to video excerpts of these MITH-sponsored events in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America's most impactful literary forces.
LGBT Studies
The LGBT Studies Program, like the programs and departments in Afro-American Studies, Asian American Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin-American Studies, and Women's Studies that preceded it, is part of the institution's broad and deep effort to transform curricula to reflect new developments in multicultural scholarship and to provide students with a set of educational experiences that convey some sense of the diversity of human cultures.
Mapping the Missions
Making use of text encoding, image mapping, and interactive media technology, the atlas will explore the missions' evolution from remote colonial-era missionary settlements to UNESCO World Heritage sites. A parallel objective is the integration of textual and visual sources in humanistic scholarship.
MultiLingual Thesaurus for Medieval Studies
MLTMS is an open source reference tool that will be made available to producers of reference works in medieval studies, both large and small, in a non-profit way both for application and for adaptation to provide enhanced functionality.
Narratives that Heal
This project addresses the creative process as it is framed and experienced in many cultures. The personal narratives that constitute the main corpus of data were gathered during three decades of field research in Ghana, Hawai’i, and Latin America. These stories reflect several themes or patterns identifying the journeys that have led the teller towards integrating creative processes into daily life.
RCCS: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
RCCS was originally founded by David Silver in 1996 at the University of Maryland, where it received generous support from the Department of American Studies.
Reading at Risk
Quicktime movie clips filmed during the "Reading at Risk" panel discussion held at the University of Maryland's McKeldin Library in the Fall of 2004, sponsored by MITH and the Department of English.
Rethinking the Americas Teaching History
Rethinking the Americas Teaching History was an educational outreach project created as a collaboration between the University of Maryland's Department of History, the David C. Driskell Center, and Montgomery County Public Schools.
The Sound of the Emperor's Voice: Japanese Creative Responses to the Allied Occupation
This site combines artist's reactions to the occupation with material that contextualizes these responses. Access is currently restricted to University of Maryland students and faculty.
University Slots, Maryland Day 2004
Featured at MITH on Maryland Day 2004, this application features MITH's projects as items on a slot machine, giving everyone the chance to try their luck at the costs and payoffs of education. (This application may not be supported by certain browsers)
Virtual Lightbox
Matthew Kirschenbaum
The Virtual Lightbox is a software tool for comparing images online. Though its target audience is in the academic humanities and the library and museum community, we expect the Lightbox to find users far removed from this sphere; indeed, we anticipate it will be of interest to anyone for whom images constitute an important data type.
Women's Studies Database
The University of Maryland Women's Studies Database, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
Yintong
Yintong is a working prototype of a full-scale database of characters in the GuÇŽngyùn 廣韻, a major dictionary dating from 1008 C.E. All data was entered into the database by me and I am responsible for any necessary corrections in future. YÄ«ntÅng has been endorsed by the T‘ang Studies Society and a mirror site is now being set up at the American Oriental Society, where future development may take place.
