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Spring 2008 Programming

This semester, the Scholars' Lab in Alderman Library welcomes an exciting group of speakers! We're proud to host or partner in presenting the following events:

Scholarly Text Encoding Workshop

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Laura Mandell,
editor of the Poetess Archive and associate director of NINES
Monday, February 4 in the Scholars' Lab Classroom

“Phanatasmatic Historicism: The Secret Life of Information, from Commonplace to Database.”

Laura Mandell,
Department of English, Miami University
Tuesday, February 5 at 3:00 p.m.
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library
This talk is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

"Copyright 201: Scholarly Communications"

protect your rights in negotiating with publishers, learn about using Creative Commons and Open Source licenses, and discover guidelines for posting the work of others on the Web
Madelyn Wessel,
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Council, UVA
Wednesday, February 13 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library

"Project Implicit: Building A Virtual Laboratory for the Social and Behavioral Sciences"

Brian Nosek,
University of Virginia Department of Psychology
Thursday, February 14 at 3:00 p.m.
Brown Science and Engineering Library
This talk is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

"Innings and Quarters"

Charles Hartman, Professor of English and Poet in Residence, Connecticut College
author of Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry
Monday, February 18 at 4:30 p.m.
in the English Department faculty lounge, Bryan Hall
This talk and poetry reading is co-sponsored with the UVA Department of English and the Research Computing Lab.

"Collex goes Celtic: applying the Collex system to the Finding the Celtic project"

independent Celtic Studies scholar Michael Newton (author of Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World) will describe the results of his NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant
Wednesday, March 12 at 3 o'clock
in the Scholars' Lab Electronic Classroom, Alderman Library

"Discovery & Innovation via Cyberinfrastructure"

Russ Miller
Cyberinfrastructure Lab, SUNY-Buffalo
Monday, March 17 at 10 o'clock in the morning
in the electronic classroom, Brown Science and Engineering Library
This talk is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

"Digital Therapy" Grad Student Luncheon

Join us for a casual lunch and a talk from Library Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities Jim Cocola (English) about his work with literature and location.
Curious about what the Scholars' Lab can do for your research? Need software assistance? Help on digital scholarship methods and best practices? Want to talk theory? Need copyright advice? Hungry?
THE DOCTORS ARE IN: Wednesday, March 19 at noon
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library

"Digital Therapy" Grad Student Luncheon: "Copyright 301. Copyright and Author's Rights: What Graduate Students Need to Know"

In a talk specifically for grad students, our local legal expert, Madelyn Wessel, will discuss the pitfalls of dissertation agreements and ways to protect your rights. All this and a free lunch, too!
Madelyn Wessel,
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Council, UVA
Wednesday, March 26 at noon
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library

Theresa-Marie Rhyne

Center for Visualization and Analytics, North Carolina State University
Wednesday, April 9 at 3:00 p.m.
in the electronic classroom, Brown Science and Engineering Library
This talk is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

"The Motion of Signifiers in Motion"

Manuel Portela of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, reflects on kinetic poetry and the nature of digital materiality
Wednesday, April 16 at 4:00 p.m.
in the Scholars' Lab
This talk is co-sponsored with IATH and the Media Studies Department.

"Digital Therapy" Grad Student Luncheon: "Game Genre and Game Interaction"

Andrew Plotkin
award-winning interactive fiction author and game designer
Tuesday, April 22 at noon
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library
Join us for lunch! This talk is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

"Culture at the Interface: Digital Archives and "Social" Rights Management in Aboriginal Australia."

Kimberly Christen, Washington State University professor and creator of a digital archive documenting the culture of the Aboriginal Warumungu people of Tennant Creek, NT Australia
Friday, April 25 at 3:30 p.m.
in the Scholars' Lab, Alderman Library
This talk is co-sponsored with the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

Studio Art Senior Show

E. F. Chilton, Fourth-year UVA studio art and biology major, exhibits her work in the Scholars' Lab
Monday, April 28 to Friday, May 23

"From Beethoven to Betelgeuse, 20 years in the quest for the Holy Grail of Interactive Storytelling"

Curtis Wong, Microsoft's Next Media Research Group
Tuesday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m.
Harrison-Small Auditorium (Special Collections Library)
This talk is co-sponsored with IATH, the Office of the Vice President and CIO, the English Department, and the Special Lectures Fund.

Open House

stop by for a tour of the Scholars' Lab on the opening day of "New Horizons in Teaching and Research," a faculty conference at the University of Virginia
Monday, May 19

"Computational Information Design"

Ben Fry - Plenary Speaker at "New Horizons in Teaching and Research"
artist, information designer, creator of Processing and author Processing and Visualizing Data
Friday, May 21
time and place to be announced
This talk is part of the New Horizons faculty conference, to be held May 19-22, and is co-sponsored with the Research Computing Lab.

Watch for other exciting New Horizons events to be announced soon, including a talk by Zotero creator Dan Cohen of George Mason University's Center for History and New Media ("Scholarly Tools and Resources for the Digital Ecosystem"), and a panel presentation on the Google Books project, to include TAPoR project director Geoffrey Rockwell.

 

Past Events at the Scholars' Lab

a record of offerings from previous semesters is available here.