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My name is Miriam Posner, and I'm the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Emory University Libraries. You can read more about me here.Archives
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Author Archives: Miriam
Technology postcards, which are exciting to me (but probably not to you) because I made them!
Here’s something kind of silly: a set of postcards I made for Yale’s Instructional Technology Group to advertise the Teaching with Technology Tuesdays series of workshops on technology and pedagogy. Each one is an image of older reading technology, which … Continue reading
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So, you’re moving to New Haven: what to do
(This is Part II in a series of posts about living in New Haven. Look for more, unless I get tired of doing them.) I first moved to New Haven from the Bay Area, and well do I remember driving … Continue reading
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Everybody must get spammed!
If you tried to leave a comment and got spammed, it’s because you’re a cylon. Just kidding, it’s nothing personal. I’m trying to fix the settings, but I’m having trouble. Send me an email to let me know, or just … Continue reading
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How to ask questions at academic presentations without being a jerk
OK, let me just start by saying that I have been That Guy (in a gender-neutral sense) many, many times. You know what I mean? The one who asks a question that makes you surreptitiously elbow the person next to … Continue reading
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What I learned from the Scholars’ Lab and the Center for History and New Media
A big part of my new job at Emory is researching models of digital scholarship. The idea is that by getting a sense of what’s out there, Emory can benefit from others’ experience when it launches its own center for … Continue reading
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PDP video available (mostly)
I’ve been pretty remiss in my website-maintenance duties for Yale’s Past’s Digital Presence conference website. However! Thanks to our intrepid cinematographer/video editor (A.K.A. my boyfriend Andy), you can watch video of a lot of the talks by clicking on the … Continue reading
A quick work update
Boy, May just about killed me! There was the small matter of writing the last chapter of my dissertation, not to mention revising an article, grading stacks of finals and papers, finding a new place to live — and, of … Continue reading
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So, you’re moving to New Haven: where to live
Andy and I are in the middle of orchestrating our big move to Atlanta, and all the excitement is reminding me of when Andy and I first moved out to New Haven. It was kind of hard to get a … Continue reading
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… and PDP is a success!
The Past’s Digital Presence, the conference Heather, Jana, Molly, Taylor, and I have been working so hard on, took place this last weekend, and the consensus seems to be that it was a success. The papers were fantastic and our … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities
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A happy announcement!
I am so happy to report that I’ve just accepted a new job. Beginning June 15, I’ll be the Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory University. I’ll be working to coordinate, promote, and integrate Emory’s … Continue reading
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Only fair!
Here’s a curiosity I can’t resist sharing: the first National Science Fair in 1950 had a girls’ division and a boys’ division.
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Tagged curiosities, exhibition, research, science, science fair, sexism
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Yale’s Film Studies “canon”
Yale’s Film Studies program is old-school in certain ways, and one of those ways is that we have an exam at the end of our Ph.D. program to test our knowledge of various essential films and film scholarship. We students … Continue reading
The internet worked again!
I was thinking about my last post, in which I said my experience with The Temple of Moloch was my first encounter with Internet-ty Scholarly Synergy. I remembered, though, that this is actually untrue. Back when I worked at the … Continue reading
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Hey, the internet worked!
In theory, internet-based collaboration can improve the quality of scholars’ work. Though I didn’t have any reason to doubt this, I hadn’t actually experienced this for myself until recently. About a year ago I uploaded one of the films I’ve … Continue reading
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A conference on exhibition at Yale
I guess it must be conference season. We grad students in Film Studies are getting ready for our graduate conference on exhibition on January 28 and 29. Here‘s the website I designed. It has to be static, since on the … Continue reading
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Building a conference website on WordPress
Hey, we launched the new site for the digital humanities conference at Yale! You should come! It’s February 19 to February 20, and don’t forget to register. I was interested in the challenge of building a conference program that’s easy … Continue reading
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Searchable database of AIDS-related obituaries
I think this is really powerful: the GLBT History Society and the Bay Area Reporter‘s searchable database of all obituaries that have appeared in the Bay Area Reporter (a newspaper that serves the GLBT communtiy) since 1979. I realized this … Continue reading
As film studies goes digital
I don’t think it’s any secret (among those who care about such things) that the Film Studies program at Yale is at something of a crossroads. Film studies as a discipline has been increasingly turning into media studies, and Yale’s … Continue reading
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A Digital Humanities Conference at Yale
Just recently, a lot of digital humanities momentum has been gathering at Yale. There’s a new DH working group, a new Public Humanities master’s program (which I’ve joined!), a new Theory & Media Studies Colloquium, and now, Yale’s first graduate … Continue reading
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Miriam, on tape
As you can surely guess from my long silence, the last few months have been really, really busy for me. I’m plowing through my dissertation, plus teaching, working, and applying for jobs. I wish I were the kind of person … Continue reading
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Very practical advice for a first-time T.A.
For me, teaching has become a real pleasure. I feel inspired by my students and I love the feeling of camaraderie that develops in a well-managed classroom. It wasn’t always that way, though. When I first started teaching, I couldn’t … Continue reading
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Radio in the classroom
I spent a year and a half commuting between New Haven and Providence a couple times a week, and over the course of that time I developed a serious addiction to podcasts and audiobooks. For some reason, listening to recordings … Continue reading
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So, you want to make a website
Since I started messing around with web design, people have been coming out of the woodwork, confessing that they’d like to build a website, too, but don’t know where to start. My own experience has been that figuring out how … Continue reading
Forget my hard drive, I’m moving to the cloud
A couple weeks ago, I pulled out my laptop and noticed a suspicious splash of water sandwiched between the plastic case and the computer. Pressing the power button yielded nothing but a sad, whirring fan. I was seriously bummed about … Continue reading
A new summer job and assorted busy-ness
Things have been pretty busy for me lately! Andy and I made our big move from Providence to New Haven (note to self: I am now too old to not hire movers), my laptop died at about the same time, … Continue reading
Academic travel survival guide
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of traveling for school. I’ve hit the road for conferences and to do research, and I’ve gone to Chicago, Cleveland, D.C., Boston, New York, Dallas, and Philadelphia. No matter where I go, there’s … Continue reading
Dapper: Create an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one
It seems like most sites offer RSS feeds (a method of subscribing to new postings), but every so often I’ll run into a site that doesn’t, but should. For example, say you want to be notified every time a certain … Continue reading
Documentary filmmakers and DVD encryption
I was interested to learn (via NPR’s On the Media, funnily enough) that there’s a dispute between the International Documentary Association (IDA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The dispute is about DVD encryption. Basically, it’s legal for … Continue reading
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Tagged acronym soup, copyright, dmca, documentary, dvd, encryption, ida, mpaa
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A dustyard of graves
I’ve been reading Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, which is a truly bad-humored memoir about procrastination and D.H. Lawrence and depression and some other things. There seems to be something awesome on every page. I … Continue reading
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The best-laid plans …
I’ve been working hard to get the second chapter of my dissertation finished before the end of the month. I wouldn’t say I’m panicking, exactly, but I’m definitely feeling a heightened sense of urgency. It’s been funny to watch all … Continue reading
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