interdisciplinary

What is a discipline? Maybe it is the space-time of slowing down and going inward, having a conversation of such specificity and reference that only others in one's group understand. In the reading I'm doing this year, it is fascinating to see how often researchers move in and out of disciplines, sometimes addressing a wider audience and then, at others, being unable to resist the temptation to dally, linger, probe, analyze, scrutinize, challenge, and caress the disciplinary object.

HASTAC was founded on the idea that the humanities, the sciences (social and natural), the arts, and technology are all needed if we are going to think through the implications of a digital future. If there are "Eight Ways to be a HASTAC leader," there are hundreds of ways to contribute to HASTAC's intellectual agenda.

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are encouraged.