InFormation Year

Site: Duke University (Durham, NC)

The programming for Interface will comprise the following components:

• A year-long residential faculty development seminar on Interface
• A graduate student conference on Thinking Through New Media
• The HASTAC International Conference with keynote speaker John Seely Brown

Interface Partners

• Duke University
• Renaissance Computing Initiative (RENCI)
• National Humanities Center (NHC)
• NC Museum of Life & Science (NCMLS)
• John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
• Franklin Humanities Institute
• Fitzpatrick Photonics Center
• ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies)
• Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Center for the Genome Ethics, Law & Policy (GELP)
• Jenkins Collaboratory
• Perkins Library
• Nasher Museum of Art

Faculty Development Seminar > 2006 - 2007 > Co-Conveners Tim Lenoir (New Technologies & Society) and Priscilla Wald (English & Women's Studies)

For In|Formation 2006-07, Duke University's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute will be sponsoring a year-long residential Seminar on “Interface.” The Co-Conveners are Tim Lenoir (Kimberly J. Jenkins Professor of New Technologies and Society) and Priscilla Wald (English and Women's Studies). An additional eight Duke faculty will participate along with an external postdoctoral fellow, three doctoral students, a library fellow, a photonics engineer, and a “technology intellectual” (a HASTAC term for technologists who are also keenly interested in the implications of cyberinfrastructure). The faculty development seminar on Interface will partner with a FOCUS (first-year experimental interdisciplinary course cluster) program on the economics, history, and science of gaming, "Game2Know." Internal funds have been raised for a variety of research projects using MRI's, the interactive sensor space, the Interactive Multimedia Project Space (IMPS), and the VR space in the Fitzpatrick Photonics Center. The group will also be working on creating gaming environments for the humanities and the digital arts and will be creating installations in the new Arts Warehouse. In conjunction with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's curated program in animated documentary, there will also be panels on animation as a social form. All programming will be coordinated with the Law School 's Center for the Study of the Public Domain and consistent with its dedication to protecting the free use of ideas in the public domain.

Graduate Student Conference > Thinking Through New Media > June 7-8, 2006

HASTAC, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), and the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a North Carolina consortium dedicated to expansive uses of high-performance computing, are pleased to announce that they will be co-hosting an international graduate student conference dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of new media technologies and their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment. The purpose of the Thinking Through New Media workshop is to build a graduate student community around new media scholarship and to introduce participants to HASTAC, ISIS, and RENCI. Conference organizers have encouraged students from all academic disciplines to submit papers exploring their own research into the study and/or creation of new media technologies. Students need not submit papers to attend the conference.

HASTAC International Conference > April 19-21, 2007

The North Carolina group will also host the HASTAC International Conference on April 19-21, 2007 that will be webcast live. The keynote speaker will be John Seely Brown at the newly opened Nasher Museum of Art. Other events will include a keynote after-dinner address by James Boyle (of Creative Commons and Center for the Study of the Public Domain), and a luncheon conversation led by John Unsworth, Chair of the ACLS "Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities" commission. The conference will also include several scholarly panels, poster sessions, and tours of scientific and artistic installations around the Duke campus and in the area.

Event website: http://nucri.nu.edu/incommunity
Live Webcast (Nov 10 - 11 only): http://www.hastac.org/live/

Please see below for a PowerPoint presentation on National University's InCommunity events. Also, Debra Amidon has agreed to share her presentation from the mini-town meeting. It is also attached below.

Site: National University (San Diego, CA)

The programming for InCommunity will comprise the following components:

Site: University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

The Simpson Center’s Invitation year is comprised of four major components:

• An In|Formation Year public lecture and webcast by Cynthia Breazeal
• Three new graduate seminars on topics including cyborg democracy, the public humanities across the digital university, and visual documentation practices
• Three new undergraduate courses that address themes in the digital humanities
• A new crossdisciaplinary research cluster on creating community through blogging

Site: University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mills College; Stanford University

The programming for Interaction will comprise the following components:

• Tele-Immersion Dance Performance, The Reception
• Symposium on Interaction in cyberspace
• An In|Formation Year public lecture by Lynn Hershman Leeson, The Politics of Presence
• Digital Humanities Fellowships

The programming for Injustice will include the following components:

• Public Lecture
• Postdoctoral fellowship
• Distributed Curricular and Research Project

Injustice Partners

• University of Michigan
• Institute for the Humanities
• Rackham Graduate School
• School of Information
• Law in Slavery and Freedom Project

Public Lecture Event > (Un)Making the Archive: Indian Vassals, African Slaves, and Web-Based Tools > Rachel Sarah O'Toole

• A computer poster session with demonstrations
• A public lecture by keynote speaker John Wilkin followed by Q&A session
• Roundtable discussion on the topic of the “ Remediation of English Studies”