Change-agents -- thought you'd be interested in an event this upcoming Monday on an unconference where technology and humanities disciplines converged. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Madeline Sanabria <mms2@uw.edu> Date: Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM Subject: [dub] iSchool Research Conversation, Monday, November 8th: 'THATCamp PNW: When Technologies and the Humanities Converge on the Fly' (Speaker: Jentery Sayers) To: faculty <ifac@u.washington.edu>, staff <istaff@u.washington.edu>, PhD <iphds@u.washington.edu>, INFO <imajors@u.washington.edu>, MSIM <imsim@u.washington.edu>, MLIS <imlis@u.washington.edu> WHO: Jentery Sayers is a Ph.D. Candidate completing his dissertation in English at the University of Washington. Together with Paige Morgan (English), he organized THATCamp PNW at the UW in 2010. His research falls broadly under the umbrella of digital humanities, with an emphasis on cultural histories of technologies, new media theory and practice, and computers and composition. In July and August 2010, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the journal Vectors, he participated in the "Broadening the Digital Humanities" Institute at the University of Southern California, where he developed a proof of concept for his hybrid (i.e., part print, part digital) dissertation, "How Text Lost Its Source: Magnetic Recording Cultures." WHAT: THATCamp PNW: When Technologies and the Humanities Converge on the Fly WHERE: Mary Gates Hall 420 WHEN: Monday, November 8, 2010, 12:00-1:20pm WHY: THATCamp PNW, or The Humanities And Technology Camp Pacific Northwest, is a regional, user-generated unconference premised on the original THATCamp concept, which was founded in 2008 at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. In 2009, the first THATCamp PNW occurred at Washington State University in Pullman, and on October 23 and 24, 2010 the event took place at the University of Washington, with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Microsoft Research, UW Libraries, and the Henry Art Gallery. More at: http://www.thatcamppnw.org/. This conversation will begin with a brief reflection on THATCamp PNW 2010 from the perspective of one of its organizers. Jentery will begin by asking why an unconference in the first place. What does it afford that typical conferences in the humanities do not? He will then transition into what, on paper and in practice, THATCamp PNW 2010 looked like: who participated, from what institutions and organizations, and to what effects on a learning climate stressing humanities approaches to new technologies and media. Jentery will conclude with a few lessons learned from the event, namely the topics humanities researchers seemed to stress and what research trajectories are apparently emerging in the region. Collaboration across the fields of humanities and information studies will be of particular interest. **Food provided. Please bring your own beverage.** _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub@dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub