Category: Humanities

Has it been a little while since you have had to do any library research? Feel like your information-finding skills are a little rusty? Join us for our Social Sciences & Humanities Research Skills Refresher session to brush off the dust.

We will cover services specific to Michigan Tech as well as a variety of searching techniques and strategies to help you get the most out of the library and your research. Join us from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 11) in Library 242. Registration is required.

Silke Feltz, a PhD candidate in humanities, has published a book review of “Personalities on the Plate,” by Barbara King in Metapscyhology Online Reviews.

L. Syd Johnson (HU) and Silke Feltz (HU) are Co-PIs on the project “Knowing What You Eat: Measuring the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions on Animal Consumption.” This is a 15-month project.

Stephanie Carpenter (HU), was awarded a Maker-Creator Fellowship by the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware.

The fellowship supports her work on a pair of novellas about professional female artists in 19th Century New England. Carpenter was in residence at Winterthur in August and will return to the library in January 2018.

The Anthill, a podcast of news outlet The Conversation (UK), ran an interview with Andrew Fiss (HU) and Laura Kasson Fiss (Pavlis Honors College), as well as recordings of songs they performed as part of their presentation at the British Science Festival. Their research considers songs as science communication, in this case nineteenth-century women using parody to defend their right to study traditionally male subjects such as mathematics. See here.

Andrew Fiss (HU) and Laura Kasson Fiss (Pavlis Honors College) presented at the annual meeting of the British Science Association, now rebranded as the British Science Festival, the longest-running conference for science communication in Europe. On Friday (Sept. 8) they gave a lecture/performance “The Mathematikado,” named for a 1886 parody of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Mikado” written and performed by students at Vassar College. Their work was covered by The Conversation UK in a podcast called the Anthill.

“Speaking Your User’s Language,” an interactive workshop focusing on the benefits and challenges of communicating directly and authentically with your audience, will be presented by Nick Rosencrans, User Experience Analyst at the University of Minnesota, and self-described champion for the end user. The workshop is 9:30-11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19 in Walker 120A.

Participants will identify issues of voice and tone in their communications, consider the consequences of prioritizing specific users or audiences over others, and share their experiences with other participants.

Sponsored by the Department of Humanities.

What’s it like to create solutions for people you won’t know in your lifetime? This wicked problem is faced by designers, artists, engineers, software developers, research scientists, information architects, content strategists—creatives of all sorts.

Jonathon Colman, product usability and lead content strategist at Facebook, offers some answers in his talk, “Wicked Ambiguity,” at 7 p.m. Monday (Sept. 18) in Walker 134.

In addition to his primary responsibilities at Facebook, Colman helps to recruit and place college interns. A Michigan Tech alumnus, Colman earned his BS in scientific and technical communication in 1997. Before joining Facebook in 2013, he worked in digital marketing and search engine optimization for REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) and the Nature Conservancy.

This even is sponsored by the Department of Humanities.

Elizabeth Flynn, professor Emerita (HU), recently published a chapter, “Feminist Perspectives on Postcolonial Rhetorical Practices: Spivak’s Cosmopolitan Erudition and Nazer’s Surveilled Silence,” in Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics edited by Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford (Southern Illinois University Press, 230-254).

The Café Français is resuming its activities from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays in Walker 120C (HDMZ) every week, and is open to any level of French-speaker.

There will be light refreshments and snacks provided.
Contact Dany Jacob with any questions.