"Pandemic Death Counts Are Numbing. There's Another Way to Process Data" The F&MS Assoc. Professor writes that "Data visceralization goes beyond mortality statistics to help people grieve."...

This Humanities Institute at Dartmouth College, foundational to Digital Humanities at Dartmouth, was directed by Mark Williams, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Television Studies. The assembled scholars met weekly to share their relevant scholarship and also organized two conferences in order to initiate a trans-disciplinary survey of critical issues attendant to the rise of cyber-culture.

ICE is bringing together scientists and humanists for two afternoons to discuss our collective future from different perspectives. Don't miss Prof. Mary Flanagan's talk "Love in the Glitch: Humanizing the Future" at 1:45 pm on Sat. June 19!

Chicago Tribune writer Michael Phillips highlights Professor Desirée Garcia's new book "The Movie Musical", a "tightly packed and deeply researched study examining the genre's illumination of more than just our collective daydreams and escape impulses."

Congratulations to Professor Jodie Mack for her advising work on the beautiful animation project by Jael. J. Cambell '22, part of the Department of Theater, winter term Show "The Radical Joy Project".

In a new partnership, Prof. Flanagan's Tiltfactor will work with the NAS's LabX to develop a science-themed tabletop game to generate interest and enthusiasm about STEMM topics through a variety of creative strategies.

A Virtual Workshop Conference organized by Prof. Mark J. Williams and Prof. Han Sang Kim (Ajou University) will be held from March 11 to 12, 2021. Sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea, "South Korea - U.S. Cooperation Program in Humanities".

Professor Jeffrey Ruoff joins Episode 1 of the new podcast Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV. The premiere episode centers on the landmark 1973 PBS docuseries An American Family.

On Feb. 16th at 5PM, Professor Mary Flanagan will join panelists Dr. Ian Lane Davis '91 (Rockstar Games), Carolyn Wang '99 (Activision), Marcus Morgan T'19 (Xbox Game Studios) and Jaclyn Kimball '16 (Electronic Arts) to discuss games, their cultural impact and career paths in the field.

Professor Iyabo Kwayana's fllm "Practice" will be presented as part of the Unorthodocs Shorts series, streaming now through January 28th.