Monthly Archives: February 2010

… and PDP is a success!

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Miriam

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 →

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A happy announcement!

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Miriam

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!

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Miriam

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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Yale’s Film Studies “canon”

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Miriam

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 →

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The internet worked again!

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Miriam

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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