We are happy to report that on May 10th over 350 faculty, students, staff and special guests attended Countries, Cultures, and Communication: Digital Innovation at UCLA.

The event had its own website that we will continue to maintain as a way of tracking progress on the 30 projects that were showcased during the event, as well as new projects we hope it will inspire.

Sponsored by the Vice Chancellor for Research, Roberto Peccei, and IDRE, the keynote speech was delivered by 2006 Lyman Award Winner, Willard McCarty. Links to Willard’s talk and his presentation (powerpoint slides) are here.

We would like to extend our thanks to the many people who helped make this event such a success.

Upcoming events:

• Wednesday, May 9, 12-1pm
  In 1023 Public Policy Building (CDH Conf Room)
  CDH Roundtable with Almila Akdag.
  Almila is an Art History graduate student and 2006-07 Digital Humanities Jr. Fellow. She will discuss work to date on her project: “Mapping the Exchange Of Ideas In Interdisciplinary Research: Time-Based Data Mining.”

  RSVP for this event.

• Thursday, May 10, 4-8pm
  1302 Perloff Hall Decafe
  Countries, Cultures, Communications: Digital Innovations at UCLA

  http://www.digitalinnovations.ucla.edu/
  Keynote Speaker:
  2006 Lyman Award winner Willard McCarty, King’s College London

  Title: What’s going on?

  Abstract: Although predicting the future is a mug’s game, we can take readings on the trajectory of computing and plan for the new ways of being emergent from what Langdon Winner has called “the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence”. In this talk I will try for a such a reading, say what I think our choices are, and conclude with the deceptively bland recommendation that we design institutional structures for the digital humanities according to the nature of their evolving practice.

• Friday, May 11 2-3pm
  In 1023 Public Policy Building (CDH Conf Room)
  CDH Roundtable with Willard McCarty

  Reader in Humanities Computing, King’s College London

  Join us for an informal discussion with Prof. McCarty, who will have given the keynote address for the Countries, Cultures and Communication event on Thursday, May 10th, and will reflect on the projects and programs here at UCLA.

Next week:

• Monday, May 14 & Tuesday, May 15 9am-5:30 pm
  In UCLA’s Biomedical Library (Louise M. Darling)

  Location

  TEI Workshop: Text Encoding for Humanities Scholarship: What, Why, How?

  Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman
  Women Writers Project, Brown University

  Sponsored by NEH

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