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 ------ End of Forwarded Message