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Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair of Critical Studies, Department of Theater, UCLA (more…)

Robert Nideffer

Professor of Studio Art & Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine; Co-Director for the Art, Computation and Engineering Program (ACE); Director of the UC Irvine Game Culture and Technology Lab;Affiliated faculty in the Visual Studies Program Game Culture and Technology

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Peter Krapp

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; Program Faculty Member of Arts Computation Engineering, University of California, Irvine (more…)

Mark Goble

Assistant Professor of English, UC Irvine (more…)

Christopher Newfield

Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Mark Poster

Professor of History, Film and Media Studies, and the Critical Theory Emphasis, UC Irvine (more…)

Mark Meadow

Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara; Co-Director of UC Microcosms Project (more…)

Mark Rose

Associate Vice Chancellor and Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Warren Sack

Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz (more…)

Jerome J. McGann

John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English, University of Virginia (more…)

J. Hillis Miller

Research Professor, UC Irvine (more…)

James Tobias

Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside (more…)

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz (more…)

Matthew Turk

Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Media Arts and Technology; and Co-Director, Four Eyes Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Ronald E. Rice

Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Carol Braun Pasternack

Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

John Mohr

Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

George Legrady

Professor, Media Arts and Technology Program, and Art Dept., UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Lisa Parks

Professor of Film Studies and Center for Information Technology and Society Humanities Coordinator, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Yunte Huang

Director of Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture and Associate Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Directions to UCSB and Conference Location (McCune Room, 6020 HSSB)

Thank your for registering for the Transliteracies conference

 
Your registration has been received by the conference organizers. For directions to UCSB and the conference location (McCune Room, 6020 Humanities & Social Sciences Building), see our directions page and campus map.

Please also register as an author on the Transliteracies conference site to discuss the seed questions or post a comment here or on other discussion parts of the site.

For your information: a UCSB TV crew will be at the conference to videotape the conversation roundtables and discussion. An edited version of the proceedings may be broadcast on UCTV, the University of California’s educational television channel. Portions of the proceedings may also be available online from the Transliteracies site in the future.—Thank you for your interest in the conference, Alan Liu (conference organizer), Melissa Stevenson (conference research assistant)

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To Conference from 101 Northbound

Driving North on US 101 take the UC Santa Barbara/Highway 217. Follow 217 (Ward Memorial Blvd.) to the East Gate of the University. Proceed straight through the gate, and merge right onto Mesa Road. Three lighted intersections later, turn left onto Ocean Road. Bear right to at the stop sign to stay on Ocean Road, then take your first left at the El Colegio intersection. The road terminates in three parking lots. Turn into the right parking lot, and the HSSB Humanities and Social Sciences Building (the site of the March 8-10 2002 Conference) is immediately on your left. All sessions will be held in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB. Parking passes may be purchased from electronic kiosks in the lot.

To Conference from 101 Southbound

Driving South on US 101, exit at Storke Road/UCSB exit and drive south (toward the ocean) to a “T” junction with El Colegio Road. Turn left onto El Colegio Road and you will pass through the West Gate of the University. Continue on El Colegio Road through the intersection with Ocean. The road terminates in three parking lots. Turn into the right parking lot, and the HSSB Humanities and Social Sciences Building (the site of the March 8-10 2002 Conference) is immediately on your left. All sessions will be held in the McCune Room, 6020 HSSB. Parking passes may be purchased from electronic kiosks in the lot.

Conference Topic

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? (more…)

Participants

Kevin C. Almeroth * Anne Balsamo * Walter Bender * Bruce Bimber * John Seely Brown * Nicholas Dames * Judith Green * N. Katherine Hayles * Yunte Huang * Adrian Johns * George Legrady * Cynthia Lewis * Alan Liu * Peter Lyman * Jerome J. McGann * Tara McPherson * J. Hillis Miller * John Mohr * Christopher Newfield * Robert Nideffer * Lisa Parks * Carol Braun Pasternack * Christiane Paul * Leah Price * Rita Raley * Ronald E. Rice * Warren Sack * Schoenerwissen/OfCD (Anne Pascual & Marcus Hauer) * Bob Stein * Brigitte Steinheider * Matthew Turk * William B. Warner * Curtis Wong. (more…)

Schedule

» 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” featuring Christiane Paul and digital artists George Legrady, Anne Pascual and Marcus Hauer of Schoenerwissen, and Robert Nideffer. » A Planning Workshop for the Transliteracies project.

(Full schedule…)

Registration for the Conference


Seed Questions for Roundtables

Discuss online the questions that have been pre-circulated among participants in the conversation roundtables. Comments welcome before and after the conference. (more…)

Directions

Conference location (McCune Room, 6020 HSSB), directions to campus, and campus map.

Schoenerwissen/OfCD

Schoenerwissen/OfCD conducts research and development in computational design. (more…)

Sponsors

* UC Digital Cultures Project * UC Office of the President * UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) * UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

N. Katherine Hayles

Professor of English and Design/Media Arts, UCLA (more…)

William B. Warner

Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara; Director of the UC Digital Cultures Project. (more…)

Kevin C. Almeroth

Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara; Associate Director, Center for Information Technology and Society; Media Arts and Technology Program; Technology Management Program; and Computer Engineering Program, UC Santa Barbara (more…)

Adrian Johns

Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Univ. of Chicago [Keynoter] (more…)

Cynthia Lewis

Professor of Literacy Education, College of Education, University of Minnesota (more…)

In what terms can we discuss the cultural significance, value, and function of reading in the age of new media and multimedia, a moment when multi-sensory immersive experience seems to be privileged?

(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)

What is the contemporary role of text in relation to images and audio?

(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)

What will reading be like in the age of “ubicomp” (ubiquitous computing)? How have different screen environments (CAVEs, cell phones, PDAs) and different modes of content delivery affected our notions of reading?

(Seed question for Roundtable 2: Reading and Media)