1. Presentations Next Week (Project Pages)

• Project Pages
• Format (20 minutes time slot)
• Invite others?
• Look at project pages in advance

2. Essays (Assignments)

• Nature of the essay
• Optional online version

3. Future Opportunities

• UCSB Transcriptions "Research Slam"

  • Call for Participation
    
    Transcriptions Research Slam
    Where the Poster Session Meets the Poetry Slam
    
    Friday, May 9  
    1pm - 4pm
    
    One of the goals of UCSB's Transcriptions Center is "to demonstrate

    a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for

    integrating new information media and technology within the core work

    of a traditional humanities discipline."  With this in mind,

    the center is hosting a Research Slam: an experimental research

    presentation model that seeks to highlight the unique work done by

    scholars of media and information technology.  
    
    While lectures, brown bag presentations, and research round tables

    can be informative and lively, the Research Slam is interested in

    taking the best components of these and combining them with the best

    qualities of a poster session and a poetry slam.  We are seeking to

    provide a forum for the presentation of ideas that un-structures,

    and perhaps goes beyond, the traditional academic encounter.   As such,

    the Research Slam will consist of three sequential media poster

    sessions, followed by a discussion session that brings the entire

    group together.  Each poster session will include one highlighted

    presentation to be projected at the front of the room.
    
    A Research Slam is:
    
    * Non-linear intellectual encounters 
    * Smaller, more personalized discussions, followed by a large group session
    * Multi-media, multi-modal, multi-temporal 
    * Inclusive of faculty and students
    * Performative, interactive, playful
    * Burning man without the fire
    * A Poetry/Art slam without the judging
    * Interested in new paradigms of sharing scholarly work 
    
    A Research Slam is not:
    
    * Hierarchically divided into presenters & audience
    * Rigidly structured
    * Quiet
    * Lecture-based
    * Traditional
    
    The UCSB Transcriptions Research Slam invites proposals for multi-media

    presentations/demonstrations that take advantage of the unique structure

    of the event.  In other words, if you need some kind of information technology to show it, we invite you to participate.  Presentations may be on any topic and may include, but are not limited to, the following:
    
    original media pieces
    
    * software / hardware demonstrations
    * performative scholarship
    * live coding
    * audio work
    * robots
    * short films
    * digitized interpretation
    
    Proposals are due on Tuesday, April 1, 2008.  Please send 300 word abstracts

    along with a short bio and any equipment requirements to researchslam@gmail.com.
    
    Contact: 
    Kimberly Knight
    PhD Candidate, Department of English
    Univ of California, Santa Barbara
    http://kimknight.com

• Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Arts conference 
  • The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) will take place in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 13-16, 2008.
• MLA Call for Papers on "New Critical Methods and Modalities"
  • New Critical Methods and Modalities, Modern Language Association 

    The Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology invites proposals on the topic of "E-Criticism: New Critical Methods and Modalities" for the 2008 convention to be held in San Francisco 27-30 December 2008: http://www.mla.org/convention.

     

    This poster session will focus on presenting new forms of literary criticism that utilize the expressive and computational capability of the computer via new models, paradigms, and tools. Proposals are especially welcome that explore new forms of criticism via multimedia, text encoding, virtual realities, and data mining.

     

    350-word abstracts by 15 March to Susan Schreibman <sschreib@ umd .edu>. All presenters must be members in good standing of the MLA by April 2008. In some cases waivers can be sought for presenters who are not in the field of modern languages or literary studies. The MLA will supply poster boards and 25" screens for each presenter.

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