Information + Humanities Conference
When
Oct 26, 2016
3:00pm
– 4:30pm
Where
Nittany Lion Inn
All sessions take place at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
FRIDAY October 28
9:00-9:30: Coffee/breakfast
9:30-10:30: Welcome
- Eric Hayot (Penn State University), “Information as a Humanistic Concept"
10:45-12:30: Session 1
- Chair: Cory Geraths (Penn State University)
- Bernard Geoghegan (Yale University/Coventry University), “Information”
- Wolf Kittler (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Information and/or Energy”
- Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Infrastructure”
12:45-2:00: Buffet lunch
2:00-3:45: Session 2
- Chair: Eric Novotny (Penn State University)
- Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois), “Metadata”
- Jeremy Braddock (Cornell University), “Libraries, 1939”
- Laura Helton (Penn State University), “Classification”
- Xiao Liu (McGill University/Penn State University), “Interface”
Coffee break
4:00-5:45: Session 3
- Chair: Jessamyn Abel (Penn State University)
- Wendy Chun (Brown University), “Network Analysis and Identity Politics”
- Catherine D'Ignazio (Emerson College), “Visualization”
- Victoria Salinger (Penn State University), “Computer Art at Bell Labs”
6:00: Conference dinner
SATURDAY October 29
9:00-9:30: Coffee/breakfast
9:45-11:30: Session 4
- Chair: Leisha Jones (Penn State University)
- Sara Grossman, (Penn State University), “Reduction”
- Caroline Levine (Cornell University), “Singular/general”
- Meredith McGill, (Rutgers University), “Format”
- Dan Rosenberg, (University of Oregon), “Keyword”
11:45-1:00: Buffet Lunch
1:00-2:45:Session 5
- Chair: Michelle Huang (Penn State University)
- Anatoly Detwyler (Penn State University), “Mosaic”
- Lydia Liu (Columbia University), “Psychic Life of Digital Media”
- Tom Mullaney (Stanford University), “Design”