Colloquia
The IS Colloquia series brings an array of speakers focusing on diverse research questions.
April 3, 2008 - IS Faculty Roundtable
Information Retrieval
With IS faculty members, Dr. Christine Borgman, Dr. Jonathan Furner, Dr. Greg Leazer, and Dr. Robert Hayes.
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
April 10, 2008 - Gary Strong, UCLA Librarian
The Role of the Academic Library in the 21st Century - co-sponsored with the UCLA Library
Dr. Gary Strong will discuss the role of the academic library in the 21st century. The UCLA Library will be used as a case study to illustrate how an academic library will position itself to tackle the changing "information landscape.” Dr. Strong will draw from his work in the areas of intellectual property and information literacy, and from his achievements in empowering the community through library services.
Light refreshments will be served.
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
April 17, 2008
Library of Congress Study Group Report on Section 108 of the Copyright Act
With Maureen Whalen, Associate General Counsel, Getty and Paul West, Universal Music
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
April 24, 2008 - The 2008 Samuel Lazerow Lecture presenting Bernd Frohmann
Dawn of the Document: Zombies in the iField
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
Professor Bernd Frohmann is a member of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Abstract: Documents and documentary practices have been marginalized as phenomena of interest to the areas of scholarship currently called library and information science, or, increasingly, information studies. The concept of information is the master trope of work now pursued in iSchools dedicated to the study of problems and issues populating a vast and ceaselessly expanding iField. Interest in documents and documentation is seen as antiquarian and somewhat eccentric, whereas interest in information is touted on the iSchools’ website as bringing worldwide benefits to twenty-first century society, advancing all areas of human endeavor, and even emancipating humankind though access to information.
Documents and documentation, however, have recently arisen from the dead like a plague of zombies, not only trespassing upon the iField, but settling intriguing new territory beyond it. The 2008 Samuel Lazerow Lecture charts some of these zombie zones, with the help of Michel Foucault’s ideas about ethical self-formation, his interest in “masses of documents” and the “power of writing”, Gilles Deleuze’s concept of assemblages, Bruno Latour’s ideas about non-human agency and the centrality of documentation to science, Ian Hacking’s notion of “making up people”, and recent interest in documentation by anthropological work on global assemblages. By bringing these ideas together, the lecture reveals ethical and political dimensions of documentation, and reclaims for documentation some neglected territory in scholarship and institutions currently overcoded by the concept of information.
Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series
May 1, 2008 - Prof. Victoria Vesna of UCLA Design|Media Arts
Database Aesthetics
"Database Aesthetics," is also the title of Prof. Vesna's new edited book published by University of Minnesota press. Victoria is a renowned media artist whose work deals with the intersection of art and science, and is exhibited internationally. If you haven't heard her before you'll certainly enjoy this presentation.
Some praise for the book:
"This book ranges over a rich data bank of thoughts about and descriptions of digital media: from the software engines of video games to the conflicting interest of cinematic narratives, from the many skins of the stock market to the artificially intelligent spy, from the design of chip implants for the human body to the recombinant poetics of virtual worlds. Database Aesthetics claims the attention of anyone attuned to the design of current and incoming reality."
--Michael Heim, author of Virtual Realism
Prof. Victoria Vesna is an artist and professor at the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Her work can be defined as experimental research that resides in between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in 16 solo exhibitions, over 70 group shows, published 20 papers and gave over 100 invited talks in the last ten years.
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
May 8, 2008
IS Course Design Workshop
With IS faculty and PhD students. Led by Joan Kaplowitz and Dr. Leah Lievrouw
May 15, 2008 - Prof. Alan Liu of the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara
Peopling the Police: A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0
Description: As instanced by well-known controversies regarding Wikipedia and other collection points for socially produced information, the era of so-called Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality. The specific relation of academic scholarship to the new modes of public knowledge is also at stake. In this talk, Alan Liu describes an integrated technological, social, and humuanities/arts approach to the problem of information authority, then concentrates on a "social computing" approach now being brainstormed by the UCSB Social Computing Group in conjunction with the UC Transliteracies Project.
Prof. Liu is an internationally-renowned literary and cultural critic whose work deals with the intersections of literature, new media, and information culture. He is the author of The Laws of Cool (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and the author/designer of Voice of the Shuttle, one of the earliest and most highly-regarded resource websites on literature and digital culture (http://vos.ucsb.edu). For more on Prof. Liu's interests and work, see http://www.english.ucsb.edu/people-detail.asp?PersonID=25
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
May 22, 2008 - IS Faculty Roundtable
Institutions and Professions
With IS faculty members, Dr. Clara Chu, Dr. beverly Lynch, Dr. Mary Niles Maack, Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan, and Dr. Virginia Walter
May 29, 2008 - Jose Manuel Báez Cristóbal, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
June 5, 2008 - Dr. Tora Bikson, Senior Social Scientist, RAND
Human Subject Issues in Research & Scholarship
3-5 pm, Room 111, GSE&IS Building.
Past IS Colloquia
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