Event Archives 06-07

2006-2007 | Lectures, Panels, Conferences, Colloquia

HumaniTech's focus this year is on the history of the book as it has intersected evolving technologies--with implications for the Humanities, education, libraries, and media. For details, keep posted on the HumaniTech web site.

FALL QUARTER 2006:

From the Iliad to the Ipod: Transitions in Media and Scholarship

October 30, 2006 | 4:00 - 6:00PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building

Participants: David Folkenflik, Media Correspondent, NPR; Stuart Glogoff, Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona; Maria Pantelia, Classics, UCI; Annette Schlichter, Comparative Literature, UCI; Moderator: Catherine Liu, Film and Media Studies, UCI. Co-sponsored by HumaniTech and the UCI Libraries. Conference poster | Listen to podcast

February 1, 2007 | 9-4PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
February 2, 2007 | 9-5PM | Calit2 Room 110

This conference explores media history from movable type to the most recent debates about text and image, including the tensions between image and writing, from hieroglyphs to the web, from automatic type-setting to film title sequences, and from motion graphics in broadcast media to issues around images and writing in computer-mediated communication. Topics include: conversations on book history, library acquisition and archives, the Google library initiative, digital libraries, and copyright. Co-sponsored by HumaniTech®, the PhD Program in Visual Studies, Network & Academic Computing Services, the Humanities Center, the International Center for Writing & Translation, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Demonstration/Workshop--Design for Non-Designers
March 5, 2007 | 1:00-3:00PM | 217 Humanities Hall

Learn why the unself-published life is not worth living. We'll explore some of the new self-publishing tools, discover a few great clip-art sources, learn how to fight crimes against typography, and get tips on how to design the perfect flyer. The emphasis of this workshop is on design for print -- at work, school, home, and all the places in between.
Presented by Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Editor of www.design-your-life.org and http://d-i-y-kids.blogspot.com/

Podcasting Possibilities
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | 12:00-1:30 PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
Join faculty from the School of Humanities as they discuss their experiences using podcasting technology in the classroom and
beyond. Elizabeth Losh, Writing Director for Humanities Core Course, will talk about the benefits of using sound for educational content in the Humanities. She will provide examples of interviews, student commentary, web sites and YouTube video essays.  She'll also show a few examples of ineffective uses of audio and discuss some of the available audio editing software.
Julia Lupton, Professor of English, will discuss her future podcasting plans plans for the Humanities Core Course.

Library Workshop Series on Humanities Research Resources
Humanities librarians Kay Collins, Phil MacLeod, and Sheila Smyth will be presenting workshops on primary resources for history, Latin American resources, and book reviews.

The Identity Engine: Printing and Publishing in the Creation of the Knowledge Economy

Tuesday, June 5, 2007 | 4:00 PM | 135 Humanities Instructional Building | Event flyer | Listen to podcast

Adrian Johns discusses notions of skill and artisanal autonomy in the period from roughly 1780 to 1850, during the great technological shift that saw mechanization introduced to the printing and publishing industries. He will approach these notions via a set of confrontations between these industries and Charles Babbage, the Victorian computer pioneer, whose computer designs incorporated attempts to deal with problems that were essentially those of the book trade and, thus, traditional problems of artisanship. Adrian Johns is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Co-sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center.

"Happy Meal Toys versus Copyright: How America Chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart--and why it's doomed us, and how we might survive anyway" with Cory Doctorow
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 | 3-4:30PM | 100 Humanities Instructional Building
Event flyer | Listen to podcast

A guest lecture jointly sponsored by Film & Media Studies and HumaniTech®. Science fiction writer, blogger, and copyright reform activist Cory Doctorow holds the 2006-2007 Canada Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.