Event Details
2008-2009
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FALL
QUARTER 2008:
Public Spheres, Blogospheres
October 24, 2008 | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
| 8:15 am - 6:00 pm
This one-day conference will feature conversations among
important contemporary bloggers in the U.S. political and academic
scene, focusing on the evolution of democracy and democratic participation
in a digital age. We have timed this event to precede the national
election. Speakers include Jeff Wasserstrom and
Ken Pomeranz of UCI and China
Beat; Eszter Hargittai of Northwestern University,
Crooked Timber, and Eszter’s
Blog, Kevin Drum of Mother
Jones; and Kevin Roderick of LA
Observed; among many other notable speakers.
Presented
by the Humanities Center and HumaniTech®.
The Future of Writing | PODCAST
November 6-7, 2008 | 135 Humanities Instructional Building
"The Future of Writing" is a two-day conference
designed to bring together scholars from both across the UC system
and other universities and a cadre of nationally recognized experts
to explore how the new communications technologies, particularly
the Internet, are challenging previous conceptions of what "writing"
is. Through a range of panels, demonstrations, and an art exhibit,
participants will consider the following: How are new communications
technologies changing the way people "compose," "write,"
and "author"? How do collaborative writing spaces and
social networking challenge the concepts of "text" and
"author"? And how are emerging emphases on visual literacies
shifting what we think of as writing?
Organized
by UCI Office of the Campus Writing Coordinator and HumaniTech®.
Co-sponsored by the International Center for Writing and Translation.
Details, podcasts,
and a complete schedule are available at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/writing/.
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WINTER
QUARTER 2009:
Panel: "Open Access in the Humanities" PODCAST
February 5, 2009 | 3:00-5:00 PM in 135 Humanities Instructional
Building
"Open-access publishing in serious, peer-reviewed online
scholarly journals is one of the keys to solving a financial crisis
that has afflicted university libraries everywhere and has had
a chilling effect on virtually every academic discipline. Making
scholarly work available without charge on the internet has offered
hope for the natural sciences and now offers hope in the humanities."
-- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University
This panel
will discuss the emergence and evolution of open access in the
Humanities. Panelists will include John L. King,
Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Information at the University
of Michigan, whose recent work examines the effect of an epistemic
infrastructure on access, information quality and social memory
in our knowledge economy; Clifford Lynch, Director
of the Coalition for Networked Information in Washington, D.C.,
whose perspectives on open access have had a strong influence
on the present academic conscience; and John Willinsky,
Professor at the Stanford University School of Education, whose
interests have led him to a focus on the influence of scholarly
publishing practices as a public resource for learning and deliberation.
The panel will be moderated by Elizabeth Losh,
Writing Director of Humanities Core at UC Irvine.
Presented by HumaniTech®. Sponsored by the UCI Libraries.
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SPRING
QUARTER 2009:
Humanities
and Technology: The Past Ten Years, The Next Ten Years
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 11:30 - 2:00 | 135 Humanities Instructional
Building
To coincide with HumaniTech®'s tenth anniversary, a panel
of scholars will exchange ideas on the intersection between the
humanities and new technologies over the past ten years, with
projections for the next ten years. Panel participants are James
Herbert, Professor of Art History; Ramesh Jain,
Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences; Alan
Liu, Chair and Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara;
Julia Lupton, Professor of English and Chancellor's
Fellow; and J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished
Research Professor of Comparative Literature. John Smith,
Professor of German, will moderate, and Vicki Ruiz,
Dean of the School of Humanities, will make the welcome.
Preceding
the panel will be a brief overview of HumaniTech's evolution from
1999 to the present, using an interactive timeline designed for
HumaniTech by students in Information and Computer Sciences, under
the direction of Ramesh Jain.
Buffet lunch
provided at 11:30 by RSVP only.
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