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Hallie Flanagan on Project Continua!
Biography of innovative theatre director and head of the Federal Theatre Project is on Project Continua here!
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Caroline Powell discusses Project Continua with Flourish Magazine!
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Caroline Powell, Project Continua’s Creative Director and Design Strategist, discusses Project Continua in her interview with Flourish Magazine. Click here to read the full article! Click here to read more Press about Project Continua!
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Second Semi-Annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon!
Project Continua, The Digital Humanities Initiative, and the pathway in Gender and Sexuality Studies at The New School will host Writing and Righting History: The Second Semi-Annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Friday, December 4th, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnold Hall, The New School 55 West 13th Street, Suite 1205, New York,…
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Aemilia Lanyer on Project Continua!
Biography of the mysterious and controversial Aemilia Lanyer is on Project Continua here!
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Gina Luria Walker is cited in The Atlantic’s article on Wikipedia!
After being interviewed by Emma Paling, Gina Luria Walker is cited in Paling’s article for The Atlantic about Wikipedia’s hostility toward women. Click here to read the full article!
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Gina Luria Walker is Interviewed by Jose Miguel Giraldez for El Carreo Gallego!
While in Spain, Gina Luria Walker spoke about Mary Hays and Jane Austen to José Miguel Giráldez of El Correo Gallego! For Google translation to English, click here. See more press about Project Continua here!
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Gina Luria Walker and Claire Potter discuss Project Continua!
Gina Luria Walker, Director of Project Continua and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, and Claire Potter, Professor of History, at Writing and Righting History, on the project’s efforts to restore women in history at The New School. Edit-A-Thon is produced by the Digital Humanities Initiative/Project Continua. Directed by Rachel Caccese. Produced by Forefront Pictures.
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Emma at 200: Fiction, Fashion, Feminism
2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s great novel, Emma. Our day-long symposium considers the fashions of fiction, fashion in fiction, and fashions of feminism, from the vantage point of this major literary bicentennial. Panelists will discuss Emma in 2015 with regard to the marriage plot, feminist style, empire, and creative…
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Rabi’ah Al-Adadawiyyah on Project Continua!
Biography of Rabi’ah Al-Adadawiyyah, renowned Islamic saint, is on Project Continua here!
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Madame de Maintenon on Project Continua!
Biography of Madame de Maintenon, mistress and secret wife of King Louis XIV, is on Project Continua here!
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Catherine of Aragon on Project Continua!
Biography of Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, is on Project Continua here!
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Eleonora de Fonseca Pimental on Project Continua!
Biography of Eleonora de Fonseca Pimental, Enlightenment poet and activist, is on Project Continua here!
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Day of Digital Humanities 2015
Who better to share on Day of Digital Humanities than Enheduanna (c. 2300 B.C.) – Sumerian princess, cloistered priestess, popular poet, and the first human author for whom we have attribution! Read all about her on Project Continua here
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Women’s History in the Digital World Conference
Women’s History in the Digital World 2015, the second conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education, will be held on the campus of Bryn Mawr College on May 21 and 22, 2015, bringing together experts, novices, and all those in between to share insights, lessons, and resources for the…
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Symposium: “Revising Revisionism” May 17, 2015
Join Project Continua at The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art as we examine the intersection of biography, art history, historiography, and feminism at the Symposium: “Revising Revisionism”. Please RSVP for the event here: http://www.projectcontinua.org/events
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International Seminar: “Mary Hays and Women’s Biographies”
Project Continua Director, Gina Luria Walker, and members of PC and the Female Biography Project will participate in the International Seminar “Mary Hays and Women’s Biographies” April 22-24, 2015 at the University of Coruña in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
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Writing and Righting History: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon, May 1st
On May 1, 2015, at the Project Continua-HAL Writing and Righting History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, The New School, documentarian Rachel Cacesse (2011) interviewed Gina Luria Walker, Director of Project Continua, and Claire Potter, Co-Director, Humanities Action Lab (HAL). Rachel Caccese, forefrontpictures.com Join Project Continua as we spend an evening editing and creating Wikipedia articles about historical women. Please RSVP for the…
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Emilie Du Châtelet on Project Continua!
Biography of Emilie Du Châtelet, Enlightenment mathematician and physicist, is on Project Continua here!
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Kitty Clive biography on Project Continua!
Catherine “Kitty” Clive was one of the highest paid actresses of her time. Read about her work as a playwright and essayist on Project Continua here!
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Cassandra Fedele now on Project Continua!
Cassandra Fedele, renowned Italian scholar of the Renaissance, now on Project Continua. Read about her here.
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Feminist Encounters with Wikipedia TODAY!
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Anne Oldfield, celebrated English actor, on Project Continua!
Anne Oldfield was one of the most celebrated actors of the English stage. Read her biography on Project Continua here!
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Annie Jump Cannon on Project Continua!
Annie Jump Cannon was one of the leading women astronomers of all time. Read about her here.
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Margaret Beaufort biography on Project Continua!
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby and mother to King Henry VII was one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance. Read all about her here.
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Antonia Maury on Project Continua!
Read all about astronomer and educator, Antonia Maury, whose stellar classification catalogue, published in 1897, was the first observatory publication credited to a woman.
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Williamina Paton Fleming on Project Continua!
Abandoned by her husband when she became pregnant, Williamina Paton Fleming went from housemaid to one of the most prominent female astronomers of her time – all in just over a decade. Sound incredible? Read the entire story of this amazing astronomer at her biography page on Project Continua.
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Join Project Continua for Curatorial Slam
Join Professor Gina Luria Walker, Director of Project Continua, for Curatorial Slam! Parson’s Curatorial Design Research Lab (CDRL) is hosting its inaugural Curatorial Slam! – a lively array of fast-paced ideas and images mixed with drinks and delectables. This public event will offer a sampling of recent curatorial models developed by New School community members,…
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Political Legacies of the Protestant Reformation
Please join Professor Gina Luria Walker, Director of Project Continua, for a conference at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Friday, March, 13th. “Political Legacies of the Protestant Reformation” commemorates the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (original Latin: Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum).…
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PC announces new partners for the Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Project Continua is excited to be partnering with 50 Years /50 Women: A Celebration of Women in Ceramics and 365 Women A Year to create and improve Wikipedia entries of female artists. 50 Years/ 50 Women celebrates the achievements of women in ceramics from the humble regional artist to those who are internationally acclaimed. 365…
