Stanford Humanities Lab: 5/20/07 - 5/27/07

Stanford Humanities Lab: 5/20/07 - 5/27/07


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The Stanford Humanities Lab is a Center for Transdiciplinary/Post-Disciplinary Study. We discover fascinating futures to be explored in ignoring and crossing disciplinary borders.

SHL believes that some crucial questions — about what it is to be human, about experience in a connected world, about the boundaries of culture and nature — transcend old divisions between the arts, sciences and humanities; between the academy, industry and the cultural sphere.

We engage in experimental projects with a "laboratory" ethos — collaborative, co-creative, team-based — involving a triangulation of arts practice, commentary/critique, and outreach, merging research, pedagogy, publication and practice. Beyond commentary and discussion, we build: new media, interactive archives, predictive models of social change, collaborative research workshops, art exhibitions.

The SHL agenda encompasses

• animating archives - regenerating, bringing to life, and fostering new modes of interaction with the storehouses of human, cultural, artistic, scientific achievement - our focus is on the question of the relationship of the human past to efforts at conservation and preservation

• building bigger pictures - putting specialized in-depth research into the context of big human questions; questions, for example, of rapid social change and innovation, the ethical implications of information technology, the character of distributed digital communities, the politics of digital citizenship, the past, present, and future of intellectual property

• enabling co-creative collaboration - developing successful models of teamwork, learner-centered models of training (thinking through doing), and collaborative authoring tools and processes

• building bridges - establishing innovative partnerships between industry, museums, foundations, and high-level university-based research

The Politics of Presence - a mixed media colloquium

Hosts: Stanford Humanities Center -- Humanities Research Network and the Research Workshop "Critical Studies in New Media" in association with "The Presence Project", and Stanford Humanities Lab presents:

Presence - being there, witnessing; the presence of the past - from its effect upon political opinion to the cultural politics of heritage; the authenticity of media reports; surveillance tracking of the digital citizen; the politics of association in virtual online worlds; political representation in an age of digital media; documentation - making present what may become lost to history ...

Discussion of such topics will be led by archaeologists Ian Russell (Trinity Dublin), Alfredo Ruibal (Madrid), and Chris Witmore (Brown) and by new media expert David Phillips (Austin, Texas).

Schedule: Live - Stanford Humanities Center Wednesday May 23 1.00 pm to 5.00 pm and 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm (buffet included) + "Absent" events - online, in a virtual world, and on a military base in Europe ...

Please join us - RSVP Fred Turner, Michael Shanks or Henry Lowood, Stanford Humanities Lab

Additional information:

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