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We are happy to announce that during this academic year, 9 Mellon Seminars
in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), will be
³broadcast² via live feed into DLFıs Second Life (SL) island, Entropia. The
RL participants will also see the SL audience, projected on a screen in the
Seminar room at UCLA. Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA or in
Second Life. 

The following Second Life URL will teleport you to Entropia, though you must
have a Second Life account in order to log on: SLurl:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Entropia/110/117/21/

Please note that the times listed below are U.S. Pacific Time. See further
details in the message below, from Todd Presner, Germanic Languages, UCLA,
or in the attached flyer.
    Best,
        Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford)
    
Esther Grassian
Information Literacy Librarian
UCLA College Library
Box 951450
L.A., CA 90095-1450
Phone: 310-206-4410
Fax: 310-206-9312
Email: [log in to unmask]
SL: Alexandria Knight
Skype: esthergrassian
There: Sefer


From: Presner, Todd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tue 9/23/2008 11:30 AM

Dear colleagues,
 
I wanted to invite you to participate in the 2008-09 Mellon seminar in
Digital Humanities at UCLA.  This yearıs seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey
Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon
Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic
Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA).  The monthly seminars are open
to graduate students, faculty, and the general public.  Participants outside
of UCLA can also join us at Entropia in Second Life.
 
 
³What is(nıt) Digital Humanities?²
 
Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitioners from
various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize, and critique
the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringing together insights from
media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of
humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.

Topics:
* Web 2.0 
* Virtual worlds 
* Ubiquitous computing
* Geo-temporal navigation
* Participatory media
* Digital narratives
* Open source knowledge
* Collaborative authorship
* Experiential design
* The classroom as laboratory

Seminar guests include:
* Johanna Drucker 
* Michael Schanks 
* Lev Manovich 
* Diane Favro 
* Franco Moretti 
* Tara McPherson 
* Peter Lunenfeld 

Graduate students may take the seminar for 2 units of course credit per
quarter (COMP LIT 597), but enrollment is not required for participation.
For more information, visit http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/
<http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/>  or join the UCLA Digital
Humanities Facebook Group.

Seminars meet in Humanities Building 193/199 from 2-5 pm on the following
dates:

Fall Quarter: October 8th, November 5th, December 1st
Winter Quarter: January 5th, February 2nd, March 2nd
Spring Quarter: April 6th, May 4th, June 1st

Topics for each session will be posted on-line once they have been
finalized.
Please feel free to forward this email and the attached flyer to anyone who
you think may be interested in the seminar.

Many thanks,

Todd Presner

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