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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

 

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 (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 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