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Tara McPherson “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Monday, March 5, 2012, Tara McPherson will give a talk entitled “Post-archive: Scholarship in the Digital Age” at 5:30pm in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the fourth talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library.Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Gender and Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, co-director of USC’s Center for Transformative Scholarship, among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, a core member of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the founding editor of the peer reviewed multii-media journal Vectors, and an editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning. She served as a co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003), and her book Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture. McPherson is currently working on a manuscript about the cultural and racial logics of code.
The Digital Arts & Humanities Lecture Series is free and open to the public. More information about this lecture is available at the event website.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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New Performing Arts Librarian Hired
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Laura K. T. Stokes is the new Performing Arts Librarian. Laura comes to Brown from Indiana University where she held three visiting lectureships in Musicology and was a Graduate Assistant in the Variations Project of the Cook Music Library. Also at Indiana, she was the Managing Editor of the Yearbook of Comparative Literature.Before going to Indiana Laura was the Assistant Head of Access Services in the Northeastern University Libraries.
Laura holds a Bachelor’s in Music from Carleton College, an MS in Library Science from the University of Michigan, and an MA in Musicology from Indiana University, where she is also a candidate for a Ph.D in Musicology.
Her office will be located in the Orwig Music Library.
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University Archives Renovation
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The University Archives’ public space is closed for a renovation project. Please contact the Archives staff for access to archival materials or for research assistance: archives@brown.edu. Researchers will need to request in advance the Brown Daily Herald, Brown Alumni Monthly, and yearbooks.
We appreciate your patience and cooperation during this time. Please contact us with any questions you have regarding the University Archives: archives@brown.edu or (401) 863-2148.