Hello. This message is being cross-posted to a number of lists. Apologies for any duplication. NOTE: This message contains announcements of two separate presentations by the same speaker. The December 1st session will take place both in real life (RL) at UCLA and in Second Life (SL). The December 2d presentation will take place only in RL at UCLA. SL attendees, please RSVP, as directed at the end of this message. DECEMBER 1ST We are happy to announce the 3d of 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in RL, and "broadcast" via live 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 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. DATE & TIME: Monday, December 1, 2008, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT (PST) SPEAKER: Lev Manovich, Professor from the Department of Visual Arts at UCSD TOPIC: "Software Studies" LINKS TO READINGS: http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ RL location: 193-199 Humanities Building, UCLA 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/ 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 there. Best, Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford) Co-Managers, DLF's Entropia DECEMBER 2D Lev Manovich will give a public lecture, titled "Understanding Metamedia," from 12-2 PM on December 2nd in 236 Royce Hall. This talk will follow his presentation at the previous day's Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities on Software Studies. We look forward to an interesting presentation, and we hope you will be able to join us for both events. Best, David Shepard <[log in to unmask]> 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