**CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES**
Forthcoming Conference
DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice'
The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference is
held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The
conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new
collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining
disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by Cambridge with
its fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from Sunday
14th September to Wednesday 17th September
The aim of the conference is to:
* Establish a site for mutually creative exchanges of knowledge.
* Promote discussion around new collaborative environments and
collective knowledge.
* Encourage and celebrate the connections and tensions within the
liminal spaces that exist between the Arts and Humanities.
* Redefine disciplinary boundaries.
* Create a forum for debate around notions of the 'solitary' and the
collaborative across the Arts and Humanities.
* Explore the impact of the Arts and Humanities on ICT: design and
narrative structures and visa versa.
There will be a variety of sessions concerned with the above but also
with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and
theorising around practice. There will also be various installations
and performances focussing on the same theme. Keynote talks will be
given by our plenary speakers who we are pleased to announce are Sher
Doruff, Research Fellow (Art, Research and Theory Lectoraat) and
Mentor at the Amsterdam School for the Arts, Alan Liu, Professor of
English, University of California Santa Barbara and Sally Jane
Norman, Director of the Culture Lab, Newcastle University. In
addition to this, there will be various round table discussions
together with a panel relating to 'Second Life' and a special forum
'Engaging research and performance through pervasive and locative
arts projects' led by Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative
Computing, University of Nottingham. Also planned is the opportunity
for a more immediate and informal presentation of work in our
'Quickfire' style events. Whether papers, performance or other, all
proposals should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA.
Visit the website at http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ for more
information and a link to the proposals website.
The Deadline for submissions will be 30 April 2008 and abstracts
should be approximately 1000 words. Cambridge's venues range from the
traditional to the contemporary all situated within walking distance
of central departments, museums and galleries. The conference will be
based around Cambridge University's Sedgwick Site, particularly the
West Road concert hall, where delegates will have use of a wide range
of facilities including a recital room and a 'black box' performance
space, to cater for this year's parallel programming and performances.
on behalf of
Sue Broadhurst
DRHA Programme Chair
Dr Sue Broadhurst,
Reader in Drama and Technology,
Head of Drama,
School of Arts,
Brunel University,
West London,
UB8 3PH, UK
Direct Line:+44(0)1895 266588
Extension: 66588
Fax: +44(0)1895 269768
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