21.254 events: copyright; reading digital literature

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 254.
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   [1] From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu> (47)
         Subject: October Copyright Workshop with Siva Vaidhyanathan

   [2] From: "Mylonas, Elli" <Elli_Mylonas_at_Brown.Edu> (33)
         Subject: Reading Digital Literature Conference at Brown
                 University, Oct 4-6

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         Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:00:12 +0100
         From: "Olga Francois" <OFrancois_at_umuc.edu>
         Subject: October Copyright Workshop with Siva Vaidhyanathan

[Please excuse any duplication of this announcement.]

       Copyright and Academic Culture:
         New Issues and Developments
         http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/
         Online: October 1-12, 2007

Early registration ends September 21st! If you can't register by then,
call to reserve your place today 1-800-283-6832, ext. 2965! Join the CIP
for the first of four (4) engaging online workshops this fall & spring!
This asynchronous online workshop series has proven to be of interest to
faculty, librarians, distance educators, instructional designers,
curriculum specialists, and information professionals.

Moderator: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media
Studies and Law, University of Virginia

Would you like to step behind the legal battles and economic interests
in order to think more about the cultural values that influence how we
think and talk about copyright? In a clear, straightforward, engaging
style, cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan will
offer insight to help untangle some of the intricate web of culture,
law, and technology. This workshop is an opportunity for both the
theorist and the practitioner of copyright law and policy to explore
some of the complex issues behind the management of copyrights on
campus.

Goals for the course:
        * Review the purpose, role, and scope of copyright and its
relation to academic culture;
        * Consider some of the problems, challenges, changes, and
opportunities facing academia;
        * Examine the relationship of the academy to copyright via the
Google Library and consider important questions for both libraries and
Google;
        * Explore the current controversy surrounding e-reserves as an
example of copyright and academic culture in conflict;
        * Examine the evolving relationship between the publishing
industry and libraries.

SIGN UP TODAY!
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Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml
Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/
For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources & services
please see our homepage- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/

--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
ofrancois_at_umuc.edu
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         Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:45:26 +0100
         From: "Mylonas, Elli" <Elli_Mylonas_at_Brown.Edu>
         Subject: Reading Digital Literature 
Conference at Brown University, Oct 4-6
Reading Digital Literature: American-German Conference
    organized by
Roberto Simanowski and the Department of German Studies,
    Brown University
Exhibition in List Art Center, opening: Oct 4, 8 PM
Conference Opening:  Oct 5, 4:30 PM
Sessions:  Oct. 5, 5:00-6:30 and Oct. 6, 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Performances of Digital Literature: Oct. 5, 7:00-8:00 PM and Oct 6,
8:30-10:00 PM
Sessions and Performances in Smith-Buonanno 106
Details: http://www.interfictions.org/readingdigitalliterature
*	Katherine Hayles: The Literary as Distributed Cognition in
Strickland and Jaramillo's slippingglimpse
*	Rita Raley: List(en)ing Post
*	Jörgen Schäfer: Looking Behind the Facade: Playing and Performing
an Interactive Drama
*	Fotis Jannidis: Understanding S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the hermeneutics of
popular digital art
*	Peter Gendolla: The Art of Poetry Machines
*	Chris Funkhouser: Kissing the steak: The Poetry of Text Generators
*	Thomas Swiss: Reading "Wrong": Flash Work by Motomichi Nakamura,
Nils Muhlenbruch, and Yoshi Sodeoka
*	Karin Wenz: The Demon Machine or 79 Ways to Face a Demon
*	George P. Landow: Symbolic (but unreadable) Texts in Digital Culture
*	Mark Tribe: Reading Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries: An
Ornithology of Digital Art
A curtain of tiny screens with live quotations from Internet chat;
stories generated by computer programs; narratives generated by their
readers; words that disappear or reveal themselves depending on their
readers position, texts that peels off the wall and require the
'reader' to push it back. How shall we read such moving letters? How
do we catch their meanings? How might they make us feel? The
conference brings together ten specialists from the USA and Germany
to search for answers through in-depth analyses.