20.380 events: symposium and two seminars

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 380.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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   [1] From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com> (33)
         Subject: Save the Date! May 2-3 MITH/ELO Symposium on the
                 Future of Electronic Literature

   [2] From: Mark Rankin <rankin.86_at_osu.edu> (37)
         Subject: history of the book seminar

   [3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (12)
         Subject: London Seminar tomorrow: John Lavagnino on metaphors
                  of digital and analogue

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         Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:49:23 +0000
         From: "Matt Kirschenbaum" <mkirschenbaum_at_gmail.com>
         Subject: Save the Date! May 2-3 MITH/ELO Symposium on the
Future of Electronic Literature

MITH and the Electronic Literature Organization are pleased to
announce a public symposium on the Future of Electronic Literature,
May 2 and 3 at the University of Maryland, College Park, with
co-sponsorship from the University Libraries and Department of
English.

The keynote speakers will be KATE HAYLES (John Charles Hillis
Professor of Literature at UCLA) and KENNETH THIBODEAU (Director of
Electronic Records Archives Program, National Archives and Records
Administration). In addition to the keynotes and associated panels, we
are planning an electronic literature slam on the evening of May 2.

A number of ELO Board members and other writers and artists will be in
attendance; watch this Web site for more details:

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/elo2007/

In the meantime save the date!

Best, Matt

--
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Assistant Professor of English
Associate Director,
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
University of Maryland
301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax)
http://www.mith.umd.edu/
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/
-- 
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Assistant Professor of English
Associate Director,
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
University of Maryland
301-405-8505 or 301-314-7111 (fax)
http://www.mith.umd.edu/
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/
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         Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:55:32 +0000
         From: Mark Rankin <rankin.86_at_osu.edu>
         Subject: history of the book seminar
John N. King and James K. Bracken of The Ohio State University will
direct a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for
College and University Teachers on continuity and change in the
production, dissemination, and reading of Western European books
during the 250 years following the advent of printing with movable
type. In particular, they plan to pose the governing question of
whether the advent of printing was a necessary precondition for the
Protestant Reformation. This seminar will also explore the related
problem of whether the impact of printing was revolutionary or
evolutionary. Employing key methods of the still-emerging
interdisciplinary field of the History of the Book, our investigation
will consider how the physical nature of books affected ways in which
readers understood and assimilated their intellectual contents. This
program is geared to meet the needs of teacher-scholars interested in
the literary, political, or cultural history of the Renaissa
nce and/or Reformation, the History of the Book, art history, women's
studies, religious studies, bibliography, print culture, library
science (including would-be rare book librarians), mass
communication, literacy studies, and more.
This seminar will meet from 18 June until 20 July 2007. During the
first week of this program, we shall visit Antwerp, Belgium, in order
to draw on resources including the Plantin-Moretus Museum. It
preserves the world's only surviving early modern printing and
publishing house. During four weeks in Oxford, where we shall reside
at St. Edmund Hall, we plan to draw on the resources of the Bodleian
Library and other institutions. In addition, we shall make an
overnight trip to London in order to visit other rare book collections.
Those eligible to apply include citizens of USA who are engaged in
teaching at the college or university level and independent scholars
who have received the terminal degree in their field (usually the
Ph.D.). In addition, non-US citizens who have taught and lived in the
USA for at least three years prior to March 2007 are eligible to
apply. NEH will provide participants with a stipend of $3,600.
Full details and application information are available at
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/king2/Reformationofthebook/. For
further information, please contact rankin.86_at_osu.edu. The
application deadline is March 1, 2007.
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         Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:04:49 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: London Seminar tomorrow: John Lavagnino on digital
Tomorrow at 5.30 pm Dr John Lavagnino, Senior Lecturer in Humanities
Computing at King's College London, will talk on "Metaphors of
Digital and Analogue" in the The London Seminar in Digital Text and
Scholarship, NG14 (North Block), Senate House, Malet Street, London.
All are cordially welcome.
For more information on the series, see http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/,
Seminars, London Seminar.
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/.