Reminder...
This message is being cross-posted to a number of lists. Apologies for
any duplication.
We are happy to announce the 2d of 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital
Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), and "broadcast" via
live feed Into the Digital Library Federation's (DLF)
<http://www.diglib.org/> Second Life (SL) island, Entropia. The RL
participants will also see the SL audience, projected on a screen in the
UCLA Visualization Portal.
These Seminars, organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford) and Todd Presner
(UCLA) will take place at intervals during the 2008/2009 academic year.
To find out more about this series of Seminars:
http://tinyurl.com/6j6xkq
Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA. The SL audience is
limited to 50. Please note that the time for each of these Seminars is
U.S. Pacific Time.
Speakers: Diane Favro and Chris Johanson
For information on the topic:
http://tinyurl.com/56cq7l
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT (PST)
RL location: UCLA Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Science
Building
SL location: Digital Library Federation's SL island, Entropia
You can teleport directly to Entropia by using the following
Second
Life url (SLURL), but you must have an SL account in order to
do
so:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Entropia/110/117/21/
Basic SL accounts are free: http://secondlife.com/
IMPORANT: SL attendees only:
Please RSVP to Esther Grassian <[log in to unmask]> or IM her
SL
avatar, Alexandria Knight, to reserve a space on Entropia, and for
instructions on viewing the live feed and adjusting the audio there.
Best,
Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford)
Co-Managers, DLF's Entropia
From: Presner, Todd [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 3:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: UCLA Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities: Nov 5th
Dear colleagues,
The next Mellon seminar in Digital Humanities will take place on Wed,
Nov. 5th, in UCLA's "Visualization Portal" in 5628 Math and Sciences
(located two buildings south of the Humanities Bld, on the west side)
from 2-5 PM. You will enter on the 5th floor (by the vending machines)
and will see posted signs to the Visualization Portal. Our guest
presenters will be Diane Favro and Chris Johanson. The seminar readings
and links are available at the digital humanities website
(www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu <http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/>
), or just click here:
http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=
view&id=28&Itemid=1
Look forward to seeing you on Wed!
Todd
