College of Arts & Humanities Calendar
University of Maryland, College Park
"Diaspora"
Presenters: Keguro Macharia (African); Regina Igel (Arab/Jewish); Ana Patricia Rodriguez (Latina/o); Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (Persian)
Reception and Film
Discussion leader: Caroline Eades, other participants to be announced
"Heritage Language Teaching and Learning"
Building the Qualitative Community:
Faculty Seed Grants for Developing Qualitative Work
Submission Deadline:
November 4, 2009
FULL CFP: http://www.crge.umd.edu/QRIG_CFP2009.pdf
The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and the Maryland Population Research Center are pleased to announce the fourth round of a seed grant program for faculty at University of Maryland engaged in research using qualitative research methods of participant-observation and in-depth interviews.
Assistant Professors have particularly high priority in the funding program but all faculty are eligible. The grant application must be for a study that primarily uses research methods of
participant-observation and/or in-depth interviewing (e.g., participant-observation of a specific group, two-hour interviews, or life histories). A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program. It is expected that a primary focus of the data collection is on understanding the meaning of events in the lives of study participants (i.e., an interpretative approach) rather than collecting data that measures the frequency of events (i.e., a survey approach).
Qualitative Research Interest Group presents
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at Northwestern University. In addition to her faculty appointment, Watkins-Hayes is a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health. Her areas of research specialization are urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; formal organizations (non-profit and government); and race, class, and gender. She has published articles in Social Problems, the Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and The State of Black America, 2001 and has been profiled in Essence and USA Today Weekend magazines. With Mario Small, Watkins-Hayes is the organizer of the website Urban Orgs: New Thinking on Organizations, Inequality, and Urban Conditions. Watkins-Hayes received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in June 2003. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Harvard and a B.A. from Spelman College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1996.
Dr. Anthony Brown will present "Translating History into Music: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Japanese Internment Camps."
Preserving and Remembering Black Heritages.
Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group
Fall 2009 lecture series
Dr. Paul Mullins, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
"Race and Displacement: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal and the Color Line"
Monday, November 9, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
0142 Holzapfel Hall, Jewish Studies Seminar Room
The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the Historic Preservation Program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information: Dr. Mary Corbin Sies (marycorbinsies@yahoo.com) or Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson (pwforson@umd.edu).
1:30p-3:15p: Plenary I: Negotiations
Conquistadora of the Spirit, Maria de Jesus de Agreda
Julianna Barr, History, University of Florida
Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother
Craig Harline, History, Brigham Young University
Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy
Colleen Reardon, Music, University of California, Irvine
Workshops to follow the Plenaries--will be held from 3:45-5:15
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
Also, join us on Facebook!
9:00a-10:45a--Plenary II: Economies
Writing the Lives of Our Men: Factual Fictions, Eyewitness Accounts, and the Competition for Truth
Megan Matchinske, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Columbus' Sister: Imagining Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Atlantic and Mediterranean Imperial Discourse
Holly Hurlburt, History and Women's Studies, Southern Illinois University
Significance and Impace of Women's Property Rights in Islamic Law: Lessons from Fifteenth Century Granada
Maya Shatzmiller, History, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2:45p-4:30p--Plenary III: Faiths & Spiritualities
Christianity, Religion and Identity in a Muslim Environment: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka, Indonesia
Barbara Watson Andaya, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
Women's Spiritual Narratives from the Black Atlantic
Jon Sensbach, History, University of Florida
The Intervening Widow: Performing Spousal Salvation through Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych
Penny Howell Jolly, Art History, Skidmore College
Workshops to follow Plenary II--will be held from 11:15a-12:45p (Plenary III Workshops will be held on Satruday)
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
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8:30a-10:00a--Roundtables and Breakfast (subscribed)
1. Early Career Professional Development
Organizer and Moderator: Jane Donawerth, University of Maryland
Panelists: Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishers
Meredith Gill, University of Maryland
Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2. Mid-Career Professional Development
Organizer: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Moderator: Naomi Miller, Smith College
Panelists: Nancy Gutierrez, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Deborah Lesko-Baker, Chair, Department of French, Georgetown University
Sarah Jayne Steen, President, Plymouth State University
Susanne Woods, former Provost, Wheaton College
10:30a-12:00p--Plenary III Workshops--see website for details
Plenary IV: Pedagogies
The Gender Differential in Honors Programs and Colleges, and the Opportunities It Provides
Susan Dinan, History, William Patterson University
Conflict & Concord--from the Beginning: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies
Albert Rabil, Emeritus
Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation
Nora Stoppino, Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshops to follow Plenary IV--will be held from 4:00p-5:30p
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
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Robert L. Blomeyer, Ph.D. is Business Manager and Chief Technology Officer; Online Teaching Associates, Ltd., and is an educational technology researcher, teacher educator and nationally recognized expert on K-20 online teaching and learning policy and practice. He is a co-author and contributor to many meta-analysis projects that examine the effects of K-12 online learning on student academic performance.
Cathy Cavanaugh, Ph.D. is associate professor in educational technology at the University of Florida. Her areas of expertise include design of online learning environments and virtual schools research. She has authored numerous papers, articles and chapters, and has edited books about K-12 online learning.
*Saturday, November 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Opening reception and exhibition viewing for registered participants
Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m.
In conjunction with its groundbreaking exhibition /Sargent and the Sea/,
the Corcoran Gallery of Art presents a scholarly symposium featuring
presentations by seven internationally-recognized scholars on themes
related to the exhibition.
Presentations:
Opening Remarks
*Sarah Cash*, bechhoefer curator of American art, Corcoran Gallery of Art
/Sargent and the Paris Art Scene/
*Richard Ormond*, project director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné
/Unbridled Enthusiasm: Sargent and European Marine Painting in the 1870s /
*Nancy Locke*, associate professor of art history, The Pennsylvania
State University
/Sargent's "Traveling Culture": Transatlantic Crossings, Expatriate
Experience, and the Workings of a Cosmopolitan Aestheticism/
*Peter Gibian*, professor of English, McGill University
/To Finistère By Way of Field and Strand/
*Maureen C. O'Brien*, curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Art,
Rhode Island School of Design
/The Lure of the South/
*Elaine Kilmurray*, co-author and research director, John Singer Sargent
Catalogue Raisonné
/Describing is Descending: Moby-Dick and Art History/
*Alexander Nemerov*, professor and chair of the history of art
department, Yale University
In /Sargent and the Sea/, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together
for the first time more than eighty paintings, watercolors, and drawings
depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John
Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter
of the late nineteenth century.
principia en Xibalba" (in English)
Lecture by Prof. Ana Castaño (In Spanish)
The introductory workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn how to use EndNote Web to manage your bibliographic citations. This Web-based service is available to all UM students, faculty, and staff through the UM Libraries. Space is limited to 15 participants per workshop.
Three sessions are available:
Wed. October 21st, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Fri. October 30th, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Fri. November 6th, 10:00am-11:00am
The introductory workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn how to use EndNote Web to manage your bibliographic citations. This Web-based service is available to all UM students, faculty, and staff through the UM Libraries. Space is limited to 15 participants per workshop.
Three sessions are available:
Wed. October 21st, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Fri. October 30th, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Fri. November 6th, 10:00am-11:00am
As you probably know by now, Wimba released its Wimba Collaboration Suite 6.0 in mid-July. Featuring new capabilities of Wimba Classroom™, Wimba Pronto™, and Wimba Voice™ - enhancements that defy the physical classroom and enrich the teaching and learning experience - the Wimba Collaboration Suite 6.0 features advanced MP4, whiteboarding and assessment functionality that will enable the hundreds of higher education institutions and K-12 districts around the world to further enhance learning, improve outcomes and increase student retention. Wimba’s technology replicates and enriches the highly personal and dynamic elements of traditional classroom instruction in the online learning environment.
This demonstration will show off all the new ways of more effectively collaborating online to enrich your courses.
Participants will learn to take their presentations in PowerPoint 2007 beyond simple bullet structures to be more inclusive of other graphical components. Some time will be provided to work on independent projects. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Import and modify pictures.
Integrate tables and spreadsheets from other Microsoft applications into a presentation.
Incorporate video (and audio) files into a computer-delivered presentation.
Post your presentation to the World Wide Web.
Prerequisites: Students should have at least three months active experience with basic MS PowerPoint tools.
UMCP Faculty: $100.00
UMCP Staff: $100.00
Students will learn how to enhance their database designs by using the principles of normalization and table relationships in Access 2007. They will also learn how to query multiple tables for data that is used in customized forms and reports. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
-Normalize sample tables by identifying design problems.
-Establish relationships between tables by analyzing table relationships and enforcing referential integrity.
-Customize table designs by setting field properties to maintain data integrity and creating indexes.
-Design select queries by using multiple tables to calculate, group, average, and link values and to show top values.
-Customize form designs by creating calculated fields, combo boxes, and unbound controls.
-Interact with data through a browser by creating and using data Access pages.
-Customize report designs by grouping, sorting, and summarizing data, and by adding subreports.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Access basics (e.g., creating and editing tables, entering data, Table Wizard, queries, and generating simple reports).
$100
Students will learn techniques for analyzing and manipulating data in Excel 2007. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Customize toolbars and create styles and templates.
- Create decision-making functions.
- Analyze worksheet data by creating pivot tables.
- Compare and contrast workbook files and file links.
- Outline and consolidate worksheets; analyze worksheet data by using the Scenario Manager.
- Display and protect worksheet data by locking cells.
- Record and modify macros by using the Visual Basic Editor.
- Create and work with interactive Web documents.
Prerequisites: Intermediate competency with the Excel tool (e.g., working with charts and chart sheets, sorting, filtering and querying data).
$100
Topics will include: Getting Started with Outlook, Composing Messages, Scheduling Appointments, Scheduling Meetings, Managing Contacts, Sharing Folder Information, Managing Tasks, and Locating Outlook Items.
Prerequisites: This course assumes that you are familiar with using personal computers and have used a mouse and keyboard (basic typing skills are recommended). You should be comfortable in the Windows environment and be able to use Windows to manage information on your computer. Specifically, you should be able to launch and close programs; navigate to information stored on the computer; and manage files and folders.
$100
Iranian affairs after the presidential election of June 2009.
Register online at www.umd.edu/iransymposium
American Studies welcomes the USLT program. Please join us for:
Café Con Leche: An Open House for U.S. Latina/o Studies
Thursday, October 29, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m. in 1108 Holzapfel Hall
Inaugural Lecture:
Dr. Suzanne Oboler, Professor, John Jay College/CUNY
“Latino/as in the 21st Century: Immigration, Participation and Rights.”
Thursday, November 5, 2009
5:00 p.m., Marie Mount Hall, Maryland Room
Creative Dialogue: Outcast and Society
Two performances this season at the Center, Disfarmer and Hotel Cassiopeia, take us into the worlds of well-known outcasts, suggesting how their removal from society allowed them to produce art that captures, honors and creates magic from a world that we sometimes take for granted. A panel led by David Serlin considers the role of the “loner” and the power the outsider might have to see society more clearly.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Photography of Disfarmer
Enter the town of Heber Springs, Arkansas through the work of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer. Steven Kasher of the Steven Kasher Gallery leads a pre-performance digital exhibit of the work of the reclusive artist who inspired Disfarmer.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Students will learn techniques for analyzing and manipulating data in Excel 2007. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Customize toolbars and create styles and templates.
- Create decision-making functions.
- Analyze worksheet data by creating pivot tables.
- Compare and contrast workbook files and file links.
- Outline and consolidate worksheets; analyze worksheet data by using the Scenario Manager.
- Display and protect worksheet data by locking cells.
- Record and modify macros by using the Visual Basic Editor.
- Create and work with interactive Web documents.
Prerequisites: Intermediate competency with the Excel tool (e.g., working with charts and chart sheets, sorting, filtering and querying data).
UMCP Faculty: $100.00
UMCP Staff: $100.00
To register, visit: http://www.training.umd.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.CourseDetail&CLASS_ID=151
Cocktail Reception 5-6PM, David C. Driskell Center, Cole Student Activities Building
Keynote Speaker 6PM in ASY 2309
"Modernist Primitivism: The Heart of the Matter"
Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History,
Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center
10AM-5PM
Symposium. The Phillips Collection
In this webinar, you will learn how to upload multiple files to a Content Area in an ELMS course space at once by using the “Document Package” tool. This tool allows you to upload and unzip a zipped package containing a collection of files within the course space. The file structure of the zipped package will also be preserved in ELMS space.
Center for Advanced Study
In the Visual Arts
Wyeth Lecture in American Art
"Minstrelsy 'Uncorked': Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism"
By: Richard J. Powell
Duke University
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:30 pm
East Building Auditorium
Reception to follow
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of art and art
history and professor of African and African American studies at Duke
University. He received his BA from Morehouse College; an MFA from
Howard University (1977); and an MA (1982) in Afro-American studies, an
MPhil (1984), and a PhD (1988) in history of art, all from Yale
Univer-sity. He has taught at University of Hartford (1982), Middlebury
College (1986), and at Duke University, where he was appointed assistant
professor (1989 – 1992), associate professor (1992 – 1998), and full
professor (1998 – ). In addition, he has served as guest curator and
consultant at the Field Museum of Natural History (1983 – 1984) and
director of programs at the Washington Project for the Arts (1987 –
1989). His honors and awards include the Ednah Root Visiting Curatorship
in American Art, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(1994); a Du Bois Insti-tute for Afro-American Research fellowship,
Harvard University (1992 – 1993); and a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1992 – 1993). Recently,
he was selected as editor in chief of /The Art Bulletin /(2007 – 2010).
Professor Powell’s books include /Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black
Portraiture /(2008), /Black Art: A Cultural History /(2002; revised and
expanded edition of /Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century /[1997]),
/Jacob Lawrence /(1992), and /Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H.
Johnson /(1991). In addition he has organized numerous exhibitions for
which he has written catalogues, such as /Circle Dance: The Art of John
T. Scott /(2005), /Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow /(2002), /To
Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and
Universities /(1999), /Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem
Renaissance /(1997), /The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
/(1989), /From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the
Washington Area /(1989), and /James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art
/(1986).
/This lecture is supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art./
CARLOS BASUALDO
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
7:00 PM
In collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism
Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art Campus
1300 Mt. Royal Avenue
Carlos Basualdo, Keith L and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, comes to Baltimore to share his experiences curating on the global stage. The curator of numerous international exhibitions, Basualdo most recently served as lead organizer of Bruce Nauman's celebrated exhibition in the United States Pavilion at the recent Venice Bienniale exhibition.
MICA Students/Staff/Faculty and Contemporary Museum Members: FREE
General Admission: $10
Students: $5
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Center of American Art Presents the Philadelphia Seminar in American Art
Blown-Up Flowers: Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, and the Great War
Alan C. Braddock - Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Saturday, December 5, 2009, 3:00PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building Media Room
Admission is free.
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
PH.D. COMPLETION PROJECT WORKSHOPS
Curriculum Vitae
and
Cover Letters
Becky Weir, M.A.
Assistant Director
University Career Center and the President’s Promise
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lecture Hall 0200, Skinner Building
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
This workshop provides a discussion of the parts of a CV, how to write it, what to include, how to use it and how it differs from a resume. Writing tips for preparing a CV will be given, and sample CVs and cover letters will be disseminated.
For registration and additional information, please visit: http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/grrd/workshops.
Questions: 301.405.4180 or retention@gradschool.umd.edu
National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The
talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the
second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring
your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at
kirwinl@si.edu <mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon
Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American
Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from
outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements
of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz
(goerlitza@si.edu <mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to
our list.
National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The
talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the
second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring
your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at
kirwinl@si.edu <mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon
Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American
Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from
outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements
of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz
(goerlitza@si.edu <mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to
our list.
MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: NAKED MEN IN PIAZZA
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:30 in the Maxwell Multi-Purpose Room
of the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
The Art History Graduate Student Association and Department of Art
History are pleased to announce a lecture by John Paoletti (Kenan
Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus and Professor of Art History,
Emeritus at Wesleyan University). Dr Paoletti is a renowned scholar
whose contributions to both Renaissance and Modern art history have
helped shape the field as we know it today.
We hope you will join us for Dr Paoletti's lecture which will be
immediately followed by a reception in the lobby of the Zimmerli Art
Museum. For more information please visit http://arthistory.rutgers.edu. Directions to the museum are
available at http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/.
Collaborative technologies extend far beyond teaching and learning. This presentation features three experts from three uniquely different institutions who will share their creative non-instructional uses of collaborative technology to save time and money while simultaneously increasing attendance and productivity.
- Create a new Web page.
- Create links between and within Web pages.
- Apply formatting to characters and paragraphs and apply themes.
- Insert, size, align, and link images.
- Create, modify, and enhance a table.
- Provide meta tags to enhance the search ability of the Web page.
- Perform basic Web page management techniques.
Pariticipants will also learn about issues of accessibility and usability and how those issues impact design considerations.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Windows environment, word processing, and use of a Web browser.
$50
Camara Holloway, assistant professor, University of Delaware, will speak on "Homo africanus harlemi: The Image of the New Negro."
The lunchbag lectures are sponsored by the Archives of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at kirwinl@si.edu<mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz (goerlitza@si.edu<mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to our list.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz (goerlitza@si.edu<mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to our list.
Please join us every Wednesday at noon for an informal social hour between the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Art History and Archaeology Department.
We will meet in the seminar room (ASY 4304). Bring your lunch!
This class will survey visual software geared towards the creation of new forms or narrative. In the age of YouTube it has become possible to tell a story with a very small budget, but this does not mean that the final product necessarily lacks quality. In this class students will learn how to tell a story from beginning to end using visual-editor programs and other visual software. Students will obtain their audiovisual materials not only form camcorders but from a wide range of sources, such as still images from cameras, web cams, or scanned objects, thus learning different ways of creating moving images. The production of a film from scratch will demand an effort to come up with creative solutions in order to articulate the story, trying to make the best of available resources. Students will receive instruction on the fundamentals of film narrative so that they become able to communicate a story and take their first steps into video creation.
Students will explore Adobe Photoshop to understand color and resolution, edit photos, layer compositions and save images. Adobe Illustrator will allow students to create unique logos, trace images, illustrate objects and manipulate typefaces. Students will use InDesign to merge elements created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create magazine covers and layouts. Students will learn the elements of printing from each program and prepare files for output.
Preserving and Remembering Black Heritages.
Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group
Fall 2009 lecture series
Dr. Angel David Nieves, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Hamilton College
"The Soweto ’76 Archive": Digital History and Virtual Heritage in the New South Africa"
Tuesday, December 1, 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
Room 1108, Holzapfel Hall
Dessert reception at 6:30 p.m.
The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the Historic Preservation Program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information: Dr. Mary Corbin Sies (marycorbinsies@yahoo.com) or Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson (pwforson@umd.edu).