IS Colloquia - 2011-12
The Information Studies Colloquium provides a forum for intellectual exchange and professional networking. All events are free and open to interested members of the community.
The colloquium is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Information Studies and the Breslauer Professor Fund.
The department announces upcoming colloquia to a variety of discussion lists, including IS-TALKS. Please feel free to subscribe yourself to IS-TALKS in order to keep up to date with our announcements!
Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia are held in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) Building, room 111, on Thursdays at 3:00pm. Receptions to follow in the 2nd floor Salon.
Podcasts and recordings of past colloquia
For more information, contact: desk.gseis@gmail.com - 310-825-8799
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2011
October 6 - Harold Short on Where does it fit? Institutional challenges in the Digital Humanities
October 20 - Jake Nadal on Unusually Effective: Policy, Evidence, and Strategy in Collection Management - Colloquium flyer
October 27 - Tara McPherson on Animating the Archive: Emerging Forms of Digital Scholarship - Colloquium flyer
November 10 - Ted Nelson on Reaching Out of the Paperdigm - Colloquium flyer - Please note that this lecture and reception will take place in the Young Research Library Conference Room from 3-5pm.
November 17 - Gary Small, School of Medicine, UCLA - Colloquium flyer
2012
January 12 - Geoff Bowker, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh - Colloquium flyer
January 19 - Tim Naftali on Telling the Truth about Watergate in Nixonland - Colloquium flyer
February 9 - Lisa Nakamura, Department of Asian American Studies, University of Illinois - Colloquium flyer
February 16 - Marlene Manoff, Humanities Library, MIT
March 8 - Kelvin White, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma - Colloquium flyer
March 15 - Miriam Metzger, Department of Communications, UC Santa Barbara - Colloquium flyer
April 12 - Daniela Rosner, PhD student, UC Berkeley School of Information - Colloquium flyer
April 19 - Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, United Kingdom - Colloquium flyer
April 26 - Brad Fidler, Department of History, UCLA
May 3 - Elise Chenier, Associate Professor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University and Director, Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (A LOT), Diversity and the Archives Lecture - Colloquium flyer
May 10 - Breslauer Lecture featuring Lisa Gitelman, Department of English, Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University
May 17 - UCLA Peer-to-Peer for PhD Students
TBA
James Ding, Managing Director of AsiaInfo IAB, joint research institute science engineering, UCLA Peking University
