The Conversations in Digital Humanities discussion series
Invites speakers whose research and practice break new ground in understanding how new media and digital methodologies are changing the landscape of research, teaching, learning, creative expression, and cultural experience.
Co-sponsored by Cornell University Library's Division of Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services, Olin and Uris Libraries, The Society for the Humanities, and the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, the series aims to engage a broad community of interest at Cornell that reaches across disciplinary and institutional lines.
Our speakers are scholars and practitioners whose projects explore the intersections of advanced digital technology and cultural understanding.
Analyzing the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society
Practicing integrative approaches that acknowledge the increasingly hybrid nature of our environments, blending new with old.
Developing innovative uses of technology for public programming, publication, and education
Creating new multimodal and interactive artworks, interfaces, or other digital "texts"
Designing and developing new digital tools for creating, preserving, analyzing, and providing access to digital resources
Creatively engaging with "big data"
Incorporating digital tools and collaborative learning methods into teaching and pedagogy
Expanding the possibilities of new digital modes of publication that facilitate the dissemination of humanities scholarship
Exploring issues related to information sustainability, permanence, copyright, and authenticity
Talks will be free, open to the public, and followed by open discussion.
2013 Spring Schedule
March 4 - Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator of the Rhizome ArtBase
"Conservation in Collections of Born-Digital Contemporary Art"
4:30 pm, Guerlac room, A.D. White House
This talk will be followed by discussion by internationally-recognized media art curators Richard Rinehart, Director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
And Timothy Murray, Curator, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and directory of the Society for the Humanities and sponsored in part by a digital preservation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
March 26 - Shannon Mattern: http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/
4:30 pm, Kroch Lecture Room, Kroch Rare and Manuscript Collections
April 2 - Yanni Loukissis, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
(Location TBA; not yet confirmed)
April 8 - Neil Fraistat: http://mith.umd.edu/people/person/neil-fraistat/
4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House