*** "UCSB Conversation Roundtables on
Online Reading" **
Conference Launching the Transliteracies Project
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu
June 17-18, 2005
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
McCune Room (6020 HSSB)
Kevin C. Almeroth * Anne Balsamo * Walter Bender * Bruce
Bimber * John Seely Brown * Nicholas Dames * N. Katherine
Hayles * Yunte Huang * Adrian Johns * Wolf Kittler *
George Legrady * Cynthia Lewis * Alan Liu * Peter Lyman
* Jerome J. McGann * Tara McPherson * J. Hillis Miller
* John Mohr * Christopher Newfield * Lisa Parks * Carol
Braun Pasternack * Christiane Paul * Leah Price * Rita
Raley * Ronald E. Rice * Warren Sack * Schoenerwissen/OfCD
* Brigitte Steinheider * Matthew Turk * William B. Warner
* Curtis Wong
How are people today "reading" in digital,
networked environments? For example, what is the relation
between reading and browsing, or searching? Or between
reading and multimedia? Can innovations in technologies
or
interfaces increase the productivity, variety, and pleasure
of these new kinds of reading? How can the historical
diversity of human reading practices help us gauge the
robustness of the new digital practices; and, inversely,
how can contemporary practices provide new ways to understand
the technical, social, and cultural dimensions of historical
reading? The Transliteracies 2005 conference (Conversation
Roundtables on Online Reading) assembles theorists and
practitioners from the humanities, arts, social sciences,
computer science, and industry to talk about the fate
of reading
in the new media age.
Three keynote presentations to mark out the diversity
of disciplines and approaches needed to address the
problem of online reading (keynoters: Anne Balsamo,
Walter Bender, Adrian Johns). Three moderated, plenary
conversation
roundtables (1. Reading, Past and Present 2. Reading
and Media 3. Reading as a Social Practice). A presentation
session on "The Art of Online Reading." The
conference launches the Transliteracies research project,
which brings together humanities, social-science, and
computer-science researchers to collaborate on technology
development related to the future of textual experience.
To register for the conference (free), comment on the
seed questions for the roundtables, or learn more about
the Transliteracies project, see http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu
Contact: Alan Liu, project leader (ayliu@english.ucsb.edu);
Melissa Stevenson, conference assistant (melissa-s@cox.net).
