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We are happy to announce the 6th of 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), and streamed via live video feed into the Digital Library Federation's (DLF) http://www.diglib.org/ SL island, Entropia. The RL participants will also see the SL audience, projected on a screen in the RL room at UCLA.

 

These Seminars, organized and co-taught by Jeffrey Schnapp (Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Founder of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory) and Todd Presner ((Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA), take place at intervals during the 2008/2009 academic year. To find out more about this series of Seminars: www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu 

 

Please note that the time for each Seminar is U.S. Pacific Time. 

 

TOPIC: " Border Crossings: Mobility, Immobility, and Trans-media Storytelling”

 

DATE & TIME: Monday, March 9, 2009, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT/PST

 

SPEAKERS:

·         Scott Ruston, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and Media Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, received his PhD in critical studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in 2008. Through a combination of theory and practice, his research has explored how the cinematic legacy of the telephone and the unique characteristics of mobile media combine to create immersive and interactive narrative entertainment. Topic: “Mobile Media:  Intersecting Space/Place, Narrative/Database, Physical/Virtual”

 

·         Amy Sara Carroll, assistant professor of Latina/o Studies (jointly appointed in English and American Culture, affiliate of the Center for World Performance Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, received a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University (2004), an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research, teaching, and writing interests include Latin/o American contemporary cultural production (performance, art, video, and literature), feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, cultural studies, inter-American studies, border studies, and critical creative writing. Her critical essays and poetry have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

 

·         Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the *Transborder Immigrant Tool* (a GPS cellphone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/U.S border was the winner of "Transnational Communities Award"). He is an assistant professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (bang.calit2.net).Ricardo is also co-founder of *particle group* (pitmm.net) with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll - the project is focused on the themes of nanotechnology and nanotoxicology.

 

DESCRIPTONS OF PRESENTATIONS + LINKS TO READINGS: http://tinyurl.com/c2k7f4

 

RL LOCATION: Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Science Building—enter on the ground floor (5^th

level) and follow the signs to the portal

 

SL LOCATION: Digital Library Federation's SL island, Entropia

 

Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA. The SL audience is limited to 50.

 

IMPORTANT: 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 in SL.

 

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/ 

 

Please let us know if you have any questions or would like any additional information. 

 

Best,

            Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford)

            Co-Managers, DLF's Entropia

 

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]

Skype: esthergrassian

SL: Alexandria Knight

There: Sefer