Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 431.
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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:18:10 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: MCN Conference 2003 (Nov 5-8) Features Charles Nesson;
Museums & Web Program Available
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 21, 2003
Museum Computer Network Conference, 2003
November 5-8: Las Vegas, Nevada
Keynote Speaker: Charles Nesson
Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2003
http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html
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Museums and the Web 2003
March 19-22: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Preliminary Program Now Available
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:07:59 -0500
>To: david@ninch.org
>From: Sam Quigley <sam_quigley@harvard.edu>
Cyberspace Visionary Charles Nesson to Address the Museum Computer Network
Conference
The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce that Charles Nesson will
be the keynote speaker at its 31st annual conference, to be held in Las
Vegas, November 5 - 8, 2003. A leading expert in cyberlaw and the impact of
the Internet on Society, Prof. Nesson is a probing thinker and brilliant
speaker. He will address the museum community for the first time and set
the tone for this conference, Balancing Museum Technology and
Transformation. Conference participants will deal directly with the impact
of technology on how museums both present and participate in cultural
heritage. Nesson's keynote will undoubtedly challenge existing notions,
stimulate new thinking, and provoke transformation in the way museum
professionals approach technological opportunities in the future.
Charles R. Nesson is William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
and Co-Director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu, a research program which he founded to
explore the implications of cyberspace, share in its study, and help
pioneer its development. It is Harvard University's first academic think
tank devoted exclusively to the Net.
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,12376,00.html
Professor Nesson has participated in cases of national interest throughout
his career. He was an organizer of the Lawyer's Military Defense Committee,
which provided counsel to servicemen during the Vietnam War, and was
counsel in prominent cases related to the war, including United States v.
Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers case). Professor Nesson pioneered the use of
technology in teaching at Harvard Law School, and has appeared in many of
PBS', CBS' and Granada (U.K) Television's most acclaimed non-fiction
series. In his book about the landmark W.R. Grace pollution litigation, A
Civil Action, Jonathan Harr introduced Nesson and the crucial role he
played in this historic legal drama in a chapter entitled "Billion Dollar
Charlie." Most recently, Prof. Nesson played an important role in Eldred v.
Ashcroft, the Supreme Court challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term
Extension Act.
Prof. Nesson is co-editor of Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and
the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT Press, 1997), which investigates
issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social
and cultural values, in light of the emerging global information
infrastructure, and includes detailed analyses of some of the most visible
issues: intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.
Prof. Nesson was Chairman of Harvard's Internet & Society Conference this
past November. (More information at:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/i&s2002/index_flash.html)
Interview with Prof. Nesson, "The Debate Over Internet Governance,"
available at:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/nesson.html#background
The Call for Proposals for MCN 2003 is available at:
http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2003/index.html
The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals
dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of
computer technologies. Founded in 1967, MCN has not just been part of the
vanguard implementing museum technology over the last decades, we are the
vanguard. www.mcn.edu
For further information, please contact:
MCN Headquarters
232-329 March Road
Box 11
Ottawa ON K2K 2E1
CANADA
Tel: 613-254-9772
Toll free 888-211-1477
Fax: 613-599-7027
E-mail: info@mcn.edu
Sam Quigley, Director
Digital Information and Technology
Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-4292
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
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Museums and the Web 2003
March 19-22, 2003
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/
The MW2003 Preliminary Program is now available.
Join us at the seventh annual Museums and the Web conference - the premier
international venue to review the state of the Web in arts, culture, and
heritage. The MW2003 program will Web-related issues for museums, archives,
libraries and other cultural institutions. If you are working with the Web
in these areas plan to join us.
The formal program of Museums and the Web 2003 consists of two plenary
sessions, eighteen parallel sessions, 60 museum project demonstrations,
dozens of commercial exhibits, seven full-day and 6 half-day pre-conference
workshops, and ten one-hour mini-workshops combined with a day-long
usability lab, a day-long design "Crit Room", and the Best of the Web awards.
The informal program involves full-day pre-conference tours, evening
receptions each night of the meeting, a dozen Birds-of-a-Feather breakfast
meetings, and hours of discovery and debate with hundreds of colleagues
from more that 35 countries.
All papers presented at MW2003 are peer reviewed. Full session
descriptions, abstracts, speaker biographies and lots more details are
on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/ Papers will be published
on-line before the conference begins. Selected Papers will be available in
print.
Join us at the largest international gathering about cultural heritage
on-line. Register on-line at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/register/
We hope to see you in Charlotte the spring!
David and jennifer
(please note our new address)
--Museums and the Web Co-Chairs: Archives & Museum Informatics David Bearman and Jennifer Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 / fax +1 412 291 1292 USA email: info@archimuse.com
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