The goal of the Conversations in Digital Humanities speaker series is to engage Cornell's scholars and practitioners whose projects explore the intersections of advanced digital technology and cultural understanding.  It targets a broad community of interest at Cornell that reaches across disciplinary and institutional lines. The series includes 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. 

The series is co-sponsored by the Cornell University Library's Division of Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services, Olin and Uris Libraries, and The Society for the Humanities.

We invite proposals for inviting speakers to engage our community in discussions such as:

• 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

2013 Spring Schedule

March 4 - Ben Fino-Radin, digital conservator of the Rhizome ArtBase: http://rhizome.org/

"Conservation in Collections of Born-Digital Contemporary Art"

4:30 pm, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

Fino-Radin will be joined in discussion by internationally-recognized media art curators Richard Rinehart, Director, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, and Timothy Murray, Curator of Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and Director of the Society for the Humanities. This talk is 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, Guerlac Room, A.D. White House

April 2 - Yanni Loukissis, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/people/yanni-loukissas.html

(Precise time and 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

Talks will be free, open to the public, and followed by general discussion.  For more information, contact the series coordinator: mir9@cornell.edu