This message is being cross-posted to a number of lists. Apologies for any duplication. You are invited to attend the concluding symposium of the Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities, featuring talks and panels by faculty and graduate students from UCLA and elsewhere. See the website for more information: http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/. These Seminars are hosted by Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA) and Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA). They invite you to an afternoon of thought-provoking discussion. Presenters: (See schedule below) Date: Monday, June 1, 2009 Time: 12 noon 5 pm SLT/PDT (U.S. Pacific Time) Locations: Real Life (RL): UCLA Visualization Portal (5628 Math Sciences Bldg.) Second Life (SL): Entropia, the Digital Library Federationıs SL islandRSVP needed Second Life basic accounts are free: http://secondlife.com NOTE to SL attendees: Please RSVP to Esther Grassian [log in to unmask] to reserve a space and receive the SLURL (SL url), as well as instructions for viewing the live video feed and adjusting the audio in SL. SCHEDULE: · 12:00-12:45: Lunch and introductory comments about Digital Humanities and the Mellon Seminar by Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presner, including a presentation of the ³Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0² · 12:45-1:10: Brian Stefans (with Mark McGurl as respondent): ³Poetry in the Age of New Media² · 1:10-1:25: Maite Zubiaurre: ³Connecting the Dots: Spanish Cyberfeminism, Digital Art, and Domestic Violence² · 1:25-1:40: Xarene Eskandar: ³Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Practice: A Case Study in Media-Space-Narrative² · 1:45-2:45: ³Digital Cultural Mapping² featuring lightning talks by: Phil Ethington, Jan Reiff, Chris Johanson, Willeke Wendrich, Elaine Sullivan, Barbara Hui (respondents: Todd Presner and Diane Favro) · 2:45-3:15: ³Mobile Media² featuring lightning talks by: Scott Ruston, David Shepard, Eric Chuk, Antero Garcia, Jennifer Porst, and Christie Nittrouer · 3:15-3:30: Break · 3:30-4:30: Keynote by N. Katherine Hayles: ³How we Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Humanities² · 4:30-5:00: Answering the Question: What is(nıt) Digital Humanities? (a group conversation); Wrap-up, next steps, mapping the future... Best, Esther 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 Twitter: estherg