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PAst Events 2011
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SEMINAR IN EXPERIMENTAL CRITICAL THEORY VII: ReWired: Asian/TechnoScience/Area Studies University of Hawai'i, Mānoa | August 1-10, 2011 The 2011 Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory (SECT VII) seeks to elucidate rapidly transforming landscapes of knowledge production, the shaping of contemporary knowledge institutions, their impact on social life in intense urban contexts, and this century’s techno-scientific horizons of possibility. Comprehending these movements, forces, and structures requires integrating deep understandings of history and politics represented by Asian and critical Area Studies with emergent work on the transnational dynamics of science and technology as well as on market economies and their modes of governance. Convened by Kavita Philip and David Theo Goldberg and hosted by UCHRI in conjunction with the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. Visit the seminar website. |
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Urban Transformations in the Americas: Citizenship, Identity, & Global Networks UC Irvine | May 20-21, 2011 A two-day symposium featuring five panels with colleagues from various UC and other California campuses, followed by a special screening of recent films by Los Angeles-based filmmakers Thom Andersen and Roberto Oregel. Organized by the Study of the Americas Working Group and co-sponsored by UCHRI. |
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5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race and Sovereignty UCLA School of Law | March 31 - April 2, 2011 An exploration of the relationship between race and sovereignty. Visit the event website. |
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Inaugural Meeting of the UC President's Society of Fellows in the Humanities UC Irvine | April 29, 2011 Highlighting innovative humanities research across the University of California, this forum brought together the 2010-2011 Presidential Faculty Fellows in the Humanities and Graduate Student Fellows to share their work with campus Humanities Center Directors, Humanities Deans and the UC community at large. Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director of Duke University Press, gave a keynote on "Writing and Publishing in a Time of Media Transformation." The forum concluded with a wide-ranging discussion of the value and impact of research across the humanities today. Sponsored by the UC Humanities Network and hosted by the University of California Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine. Visit the event website | Video of keynote by Ken Wissoker |
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Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge UC Riverside | March 10-11, 2011 This conference explored the material dimensions of inscribed knowledge across modern disciplinary lines, and featured talks by internationally known scholars in History, Literature, Digital Humanities, Geography, Music and Art History. Drawing on a diverse range of methodological approaches, the speakers addressed the role of material inscription in the formation, or deformation, of knowledge from roughly 1660-1850. Kinds of inscription that were considered include manuscripts, drawings, maps, graffiti, archives, books and other objects. Also under consideration were the physical circuits and practices (i.e., manual, technological, social, institutional) through which such inscriptions traveled. |
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Philipp Schmidt: P2PU: The Future of Learning? The Future of the University? UC Irvine | March 8, 2011 Philipp Schmidt discussed the Peer 2 Peer University, committed to creating high-quality, low-cost, lifelong learning leveraging the Internet, with respondents Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine, and Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine. Philipp Schmidt is Director and co-founder of the Peer 2 Peer University, the original free and open online university and based in Cape Town. He collaborates with the Mozilla Education team, and is involved in the MacArthur Foundation project to create a badging system for community based knowledge accreditation. For details: http://p2pu.org/ | Video |
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Designing Learning Futures: 2011 Digital Media and Learning Conference Long Beach, CA | March 3-5, 2011 The second annual Digital Media and Learning conference drew 550 thought leaders, scholars, researchers, innovators, designers and advocates representing every continent to explore the future of learning and civic engagement. Through hands-on demonstrations, presentations, and panel discussions, the conference explored how digital technology and the Internet are affecting youth and education. The Digital Media and Learning Conference is supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub of UCHRI. For details: http://www.dmlcentral.net/conference2011 |
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Researchers, practitioners and policy-movers from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative attended the 2011 DML Grantees meeting, organized and hosted by the Research Hub. Top priority for this year's meeting was to break out into multiple working groups to begin putting into writing a dramatic new approach to learning -- Connected Learning -- that has emerged from the DML initiative and that is made possible by the knowledge-creation and hyper-connective properties of the digital age. |
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Haiti Stories: Istwa Ayiti UCLA Fowler Museum | January 29, 2011 A conversation on how Haiti's story is narrated and presented in the world. Moderated by Amy Wilentz, writer and professor of journalism at UC Irvine. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Fowler Museum and the UC Irvine Program in Literary Journalism, in conjunction with 'Fowler In Focus: Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti,' which examines the capacity of art to express the tragedies and triumphs of a nation. Watch Haiti Stories on UCTV |
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Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire Workshop with Elleke Boehmer, Oxford University UC Irvine | January 14, 2011 Professor Boehmer addressed the circulation of the jingo poem as cultural artifact and imperial message through the networked domain of the British empire c. 1890-1905. Image courtesy of Oxford University. Co-sponsored by the UCI Critical Theory Institute. |
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Age of Unreason: Race and the Drama of American Anti-Intellectualism Seminar with Susan Giroux UC Irvine | January 7, 2011 A seminar with Susan Giroux on her new book, Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come. |