Linda, thanks for posting this. I didn't know the announcement had gone
live, but had forewarning and had already signed up.
I do think this will be an extremely useful event. Alan Liu has done some
great work in the past, especially in Voice of the Shuttle, his very early
Humanities Resource. http://vos.ucsb.edu. And last year he published The
Laws of Cool, an intriguing examination of the relationship between
knowledge work and literature.
I recorded an interview with him a few years ago - it can be found here
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/transition/toolkit/interviews.htm
Best
Sue
>
> does 'writing and digital life' extend to 'reading and digital life'?
> thought it was worth passing on this info if it hasn't already found it's
> way here - there's an online discussion happening i think ... all best.
> linda (i'm a writer)
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> Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading
> 17/06/2005 - 18/06/2005 , Santa Barbara
>
> UCSB Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading
> Conference Launching the Transliteracies Project
> http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu
>
> June 17-18, 2005
> Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
> McCune Room (6020 HSSB)
>
> Kevin C. Almeroth - Anne Balsamo - Walter Bender - Bruce Bimber - John
> Seely Brown - Nicholas Dames - N. Katherine Hayles - Yunte Huang - Adrian
> Johns - Wolf Kittler - George Legrady - Cynthia Lewis - David Link - Alan
> Liu - Peter Lyman - Jerome J. McGann - Tara McPherson - J. Hillis Miller -
> John Mohr - Christopher Newfield - Lisa Parks - Carol Braun Pasternack -
> Christiane Paul - Leah Price - Rita Raley - Ronald E. Rice - Warren Sack -
> Schoenerwissen/OfCD - Brigitte Steinheider - Matthew Turk - William B.
> Warner - Curtis Wong
>
> How are people today "reading" in digital, networked environments? For
> example, what is the relation between reading and browsing, or searching?
> Or between reading and multimedia? Can innovations in technologies or
> interfaces increase the productivity, variety, and pleasure of these new
> kinds of reading? How can the historical diversity of human reading
> practices help us gauge the robustness of the new digital practices; and,
> inversely, how can contemporary practices provide new ways to understand
> the technical, social, and cultural dimensions of historical reading? The
> Transliteracies 2005 conference (Conversation Roundtables on Online
> Reading) assembles theorists and practitioners from the humanities, arts,
> social sciences, computer science, and industry to talk about the fate of
> reading in the new media age.
>
> Three keynote presentations to mark out the diversity of disciplines and
> approaches needed to address the problem of online reading (keynoters: Anne
> Balsamo, Walter Bender, Adrian Johns). Three moderated, plenary
> conversation roundtables (1. Reading, Past and Present 2. Reading and Media
> 3. Reading as a Social Practice). A presentation session on "The Art of
> Online Reading."
>
> The conference launches the Transliteracies research project, which brings
> together humanities, social-science, and computer-science researchers to
> collaborate on technology development related to the future of textual
> experience. To register for the conference (free), comment on the seed
> questions for the roundtables, or learn more about the Transliteracies
> project, see http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu.
>
> Contact: Alan Liu, project leader ([log in to unmask]); Melissa
> Stevenson, conference assistant ([log in to unmask]).
>
> http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu
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