Submitted by Alison.F.Dame-Boyle on Aug 13, 2008, 01:12 PM
After tracking down information and teaching myself basic HTML, materials, presenter's bios, and photos from HASTAC II: Techno-Travels are finally up at http://www.hastac.org/hastac08conference.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 08, 2008, 06:19 PM
Brenda Laurel, during one of the keynotes at HASTAC 08, offered 10 rules for "crossing boundaries without hurting yourself. "

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on May 26, 2008, 01:19 PM

I've posted my notes and photos from our HASTAC II bus tour, Reading Southern California at 65 MPH, narrated by Norman Klein, organized by Anne Balsamo, and navigated by Perry Hoberman.  Read on ... 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 26, 2008, 09:57 AM
At the end of yesterday's HASTAC 08 conference, TechnoTravels/TeleMobility: HASTAC in Motion, one of HASTAC's founding leaders as well as one of the conference organizers, David Theo Goldberg, made inspiring parting words. During his closing talk, he coined a new term: "Mobile Humanities." This adds a new dimension to the traditional "digital humanities" by emphasizing not only the digitizing of the enormous range of cultural documents across time and place, but also HASTAC's goal to ensure that humanistic thinking is crucial to how we think about the information age, new technologies, the academy, disciplines, and learning, not only in formal education but lifelong. Mobile Humanities isn't just about technology but about all of the social arrangements changing as a result of mobile technologies, past and present. And, in the end, Mobile Humanities are about inspiring humanists to think about their charge as educators, to take seriously the challenges their students face and the future that those students will help to shape.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 24, 2008, 10:34 AM
I thought I could go the three days of the TechnoTravels HASTAC II conference without blogging, but I have to add to the terrific liveblogging of others here just to say thank you to the organizers, to the presenters, and for two days that inspire what John Seely Brown, in the videoclip we saw, said should be the goal of all educational enterprises: awe. I, my dear HASTAC friends, am in awe of the conversations, the insights, the excitement, the debate, the engagement, and the passion for learning and education I'm seeing everywhere, on every level.

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on May 23, 2008, 08:20 PM

Bite-size notes on our bite-size panel presentations. Read on ...

Submitted by Patrick Jagoda on May 23, 2008, 07:33 PM

In an afternoon session at HASTAC II, a panel comprised of Lev Manovich, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Anne Helmond, Nick Montfort, Tristan Thielmann, and Jeremy Douglass discussed different aspects of the emerging field of software

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on May 23, 2008, 06:57 PM
Photos from the HIPerwall demo at HASTAC II today.  Read on ... 

Submitted by Patrick Jagoda on May 23, 2008, 06:03 PM

HASTAC II continues with Curtis Wong's fantastic Keynote Address about the development of interactive storytelling and educational media applications over the last 20 years. From early CD-ROMs to the first enhanced broadband television program (PBS's Commanding Heights), Wong worked through some key improvements in digital interfaces.

Submitted by jonathan.tarr on May 23, 2008, 03:14 PM

 

Southeast San Diego in 2007

 

For our next act, David Theo Goldberg here at UCHRI and Chien-Yi Hou and Richard Marciano of the San Diego Supercomputer Ce