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We are happy to announce the 4th 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 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 <http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/>
Please note that the time for each Seminar is U.S. Pacific Time.
DATE & TIME: Monday, January 5, 2009, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT (PST)
SPEAKER: Johanna Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer
Professor of Bibliography in the Department of
Information Studies at UCLA
TOPIC: "Humanities Tools in Digital Contexts"
Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as
substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early
pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and
visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research.
But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical --
remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of
scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in
progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a
digital environment.
LINKS TO READINGS & PROJECT LINKS: http://tinyurl.com/6z4o4n
RL LOCATION: Visualization Portal, 5633 Math Science
Building-enter on the ground floor (5th 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 there.
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
