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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.

Past colloquia

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

February 23 - Susan Sim, School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine

March 1 - Brad Fidler, Department of History, UCLA

March 8 - Kelvin White, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

March 15 - Miriam Metzger, Department of Communications, UC Santa Barbara

April 5 - Jacqueline Goldsby, Faculty of English, New York University

April 19 - Casey Reas, Design | Media Arts, UCLA

May 10 - Breslauer Lecture featuring Lisa Gitelman, Department of English, Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University

TBA

James Ding, Managing Director of AsiaInfo IAB, joint research institute science engineering, UCLA Peking University

Past Colloquia

Updated: 2/2/12