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THATcamp Bay Area: winding down

Yazan: Candace | 11 October 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

So THATcamp Bay Area is winding down. The unconference is over and a handful of people are hanging around having post-conference conversations, enjoying the sun, finishing the beer. Pizza has been ordered and a couple of us are working on wrap up posts before we return to our daily grind. I want to try to […]

History Symposium at University of Windsor

Yazan: Candace | 06 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

This Thursday, 8 April 2010, graduate students of the History Department at the University of Windsor will present papers from two courses being offered this term: 43-510: Post-Colonialism and 43-511 Modernity The symposium will take place in McPherson Lounge at Alumni Hall on the University of Windsor campus. Schedule: 9:30 AM: Welcome 9:30-11: Modernity and […]

ProfHacker OpenSearch Plugin

Yazan: Candace | 06 April 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: Academia, code, Happy, Humanities Computing, Mozilla, Technology, Tools, Web Applications

I’ve been a regular reader of ProfHacker since its launch. The posts (tips and tutorials for higher ed), are helpful – and usually timely. Just as I’m thinking about or needing something, a post turns up providing useful tips, often with links to more info. However, the mass of bookmarks I’ve accumulated is losing its […]

Book Review: Death So Noble

Yazan: Candace | 02 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Book, Canadiana, History, School, Women

In Death So Noble, Jonathan Vance explores how Canadians constructed a collective memory of the First World War based on “fact, wishful thinking, half-truth, and outright invention.”[1] Vance endeavours to explain how Canadians gave birth to the myth and how it became embedded in the collective consciousness in the 1920s and 1930s.[2] Vance argues that […]

SHARCnet Research Day 2010

Yazan: Candace | 27 March 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Humanities Computing

Coming up at York University on May 6, 2010: SHARCNET Research Day is the premier annual event at which SHARCNET professors, postdocs and graduate students meet to learn about each other’s High Performance Computing (HPC) related research. The theme of the meeting is “HPC Innovation for Research.” via SHARCNET Research Day 2010.

Installing Omeka

Yazan: Candace | 06 November 2009 | No Comments
Categories: code, History, Museums, Omeka

Thanks to debugging help from @Rob_Russell, I managed to get Omeka installed and running on two separate development sites this week. For the most part, the Omeka documentation was great for getting me through the basics of downloading and setting up but I ran in to two problems: one was php-related due to the host […]

Graduate Funding Workshop

Yazan: Candace | 23 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Academia, Funding

Yesterday Dr. Stephen Pender, English and Dr. Marcello Guarini, Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Windsor hosted a workshop on how to best fill out applications for the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and awards from the Social Sciences / Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). I twittered notes as I took […]

Using Audacity to Transcribe Oral History

Yazan: Candace | 19 September 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: History, Tools, Toys

Not long ago, I finished all the interviews for the-project-that-will-be-my-Masters but was then faced with the daunting task of transcribing them all. Since starting this project I’ve learned about an entire movement within oral history to work from the audio but I’d already committed to sending the texts back out to the participants so they […]

Scottish Dancing as Kinesthetic History

Yazan: Candace | 09 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Dance, History

For as long as I can remember dancing has been a large part of my life. You might call me a dance junkie. I’ve taught ballet and taken whatever classes I could find: swing, ballroom, tap, modern… I’ve let that drift away while attending grad school. There just isn’t enough time in a day to […]

Veg BBQ

Yazan: Candace | 21 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Food

The family was recently gifted a barbecue when dear friends moved to British Columbia. Best thing about this bbq is that it has always been veg-only. I’m already hooked – I especially love not heating up the west-facing kitchen (someone’s bad idea or terrible joke). Tonight we’ll be having asparagus, zucchini, tofu, and baby potatoes, […]

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