Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities - join in via SecondLife
[Email text I received regarding an opportunity to "try out" SecondLife.]
We are happy to announce that during this academic year, 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in real life (RL), will be “broadcast� via live feed into the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Second Life (SL) island, Entropia. The RL participants will also see the SL audience, projected on a screen in the Seminar room at UCLA. Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA or in Second Life.
The following Second Life URL will teleport you to DLF’s Entropia, though you must have a Second Life account in order to log on:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Entropia/110/117/21/
Basic Second Life accounts are free.
Please note that the times listed below (editor's note: see extended entry) are U.S. Pacific Time. See further details in the message below, from Todd Presner, Germanic Languages, UCLA, or in the attached flyer.
Best,
Esther Grassian (UCLA) & Deni Wicklund (Stanford)
Co-Managers, DLF’s Entropia
Dear colleagues,
I wanted to invite you to participate in the 2008-09 Mellon seminar in Digital Humanities at UCLA. This year’s seminar is co-organized by Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Laboratory, and Mellon Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA) and Todd Presner (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA). The monthly seminars are open to graduate students, faculty, and the general public. Participants outside of UCLA can also join us at Entropia in Second Life.
“What is(n’t) Digital Humanities?�
Through dialogues with expert guest interlocutors and practitioners from various fields, seminar participants will examine, historicize, and critique the emergent field of "digital humanities." Bringing together insights from media, game, literary and cultural studies, we will attempt to take stock of humanistic inquiry at the start of the 21st century.
Topics:
• Web 2.0
• Virtual worlds
• Ubiquitous computing
• Geo-temporal navigation
• Participatory media
• Digital narratives
• Open source knowledge
• Collaborative authorship
• Experiential design
• The classroom as laboratory
Seminar guests include:
• Johanna Drucker
• Michael Schanks
• Lev Manovich
• Diane Favro
• Franco Moretti
• Tara McPherson
• Peter Lunenfeld
Graduate students may take the seminar for 2 units of course credit per quarter (COMP LIT 597), but enrollment is not required for participation. For more information, visit http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/ or join the UCLA Digital Humanities Facebook Group.
Seminars meet in Humanities Building 193/199 from 2-5 pm on the following dates:
Fall Quarter: October 8th, November 5th, December 1st
Winter Quarter: January 5th, February 2nd, March 2nd
Spring Quarter: April 6th, May 4th, June 1st
Topics for each session will be posted on-line once they have been finalized.
Please feel free to forward this email and the attached flyer to anyone who you think may be interested in the seminar.
Many thanks,
Todd Presner