UPCOMING AND Recent Events

Featured Panelists: Geof Bowker, Informatics, UC Irvine; Johanna Drucker, Information Studies, UCLA; Christopher Newfield, English, UC Santa Barbara; and Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Free and open to the public.

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. The third annual conference – DML2012 – is organized around the theme “Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World” and will be held between March 1-3, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Details: http://dml2012.dmlcentral.net/

Digital Media & Learning Competition Research Symposium at DML2012:
Rewards, Reputation, & Recognition: A conversation about badges,
eportfolios, reputation systems, and the future of learning
February 29, 2012 | 5-8PM | Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel, 55 Cyril Magnin, San Francisco, CA

Join the winners of the Digital Media and Learning Research Competition, "Badges, Trophies, and Achievements," for a conversation about the current state of research on recognition and accreditation systems for informal and interest-driven learning. We will explore some of the opportunities provided by employing badges and other assessment systems in learning communities, some of the dangers, and consider the pressing research questions that need to be addressed. Over the last year, a wide-ranging public conversation about potential future applications of badges and the place of badges in our learning ecosystem has captured the attention of educators, technology makers, and researchers. How can current and past research inform these debates? What are the most important questions we need to raise about the effective design and deployment of badge and reputation systems?

This event will feature several talks by graduate students and faculty who will engage with the work and contributions of Étienne Balibar. An afternoon of panels will be followed by a casual and general discussion of the state of the humanities today.
Panel 1: 1p-2:30p // Tim Wong, C.J. Gordon, Julia Lupton
Panel 2: 2:45p-4:15p // Philip Grant, Sharareh Frouzesh, Nasser Mufti
Panel 3: 4:30p-6p // Robert Wood, Ameeth Vijay, Annette Rubado
Open Discussion with participants and Étienne Balibar: 6p-7p

Talk and book presentation by Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. Please RSVP to cethno@uci.edu. For more information about the Center and its events go to: http://www.ethnography.uci.edu/

Presented by the Center for Ethnography and co-sponsored by UCHRI.

Circulating Stuff: From MilitaryArt to Business Science
by Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
Thursday, October 13, 2011 | 4:00-6:00PM
UC Davis, 3201 Hart Hall

Presented by the UC Davis Cultural Studies Graduate Group, with support from the Cultures of Militarization UCHRI Working Group. For details: culturalstudies@ucdavis.edu

Plenary speakers include Alberto Moreiras, Wendy Brown and Martin Jay.

A screening, urban hike, and roundtable discussion among cultural workers, researchers, and artists organized to help develop strategies for future cultural work and community action at the Inglewood Oil Field. For details: www.off-peak.org | ken.rogers@ucr.edu

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, discuss the potential of Badges for Lifelong Learning. Badges are a new assessment tool that will help identify skills mastered in formal and informal settings, virtually and in physical spaces, and in schools, workplaces and communities.
Featured speakers: The Honorable Arne Duncan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, NASA; Emily Stover DeRocco, President, The Manufacturing Institute and the National Center for the American Workforce; and Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation. View the event at DMLcompetition.net.