Friday, June 17th (6020 HSSB)

8:30 Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome: David Marshall, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara; William Warner, Director of UC Digital Cultures Project and Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

9:15 Introduction to Conference: Alan Liu, Director of Transliteracies Project

9:30 – 10:45 Keynoter: Adrian Johns, “Reading, Discovering, and Knowing”

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11:00 – 12:30 Conversation Roundtable 1: “Reading, Past and Present.” Moderator: Alan Liu. Discussants: Anne Balsamo, Adrian Johns, Jerome J. McGann, J. Hillis Miller, Carol Braun Pasternack, Leah Price, Ronald E. Rice, Bob Stein, William B. Warner (seed questions for roundtable)

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12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (catered)

2 – 3:15 Keynoter: Anne Balsamo, “Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination”

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3:30 – 5 Conversation Roundtable 2: “Reading and Media.” Moderator: Rita Raley. Discussants: Walter Bender, Nicholas Dames, N. Katherine Hayles, Yunte Huang, George Legrady, Tara McPherson, Lisa Parks, Christiane Paul, Warren Sack, Matthew Turk, Curtis Wong (seed questions for roundtable)

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5 – 6 Conference Reception

Saturday, June 18th (6020 HSSB)

8:30 Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:45 The Art of Online Reading (presentations by Christiane Paul, George Legrady, Anne Pascual and Marcus Hauer of Schoenerwissen, and Robert Nideffer)

11:00 – 12:30 Conversation Roundtable 3: “Reading as a Social Practice.” Moderator: Bruce Bimber. Discussants: Kevin Almeroth, John Seely Brown, Judith Green, Cynthia Lewis, Peter Lyman, John Mohr, Christopher Newfield, Schoenerwissen (Marcus Hauer & Anne Pascual), Brigitte Steinheider (seed questions for roundtable)

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12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (catered)

2 – 3:15 Keynoter: Walter Bender, “The Rule of Many: New Media and Emergent Intelligence”

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3:30 – 5:00 Transliteracies Project Planning Session Moderator: Alan Liu. Discussants: conference participants. Agenda and planning document that will serve as basis for discussion.

Best Western South Coast Inn
Telephone:(805) 967-3200
5620 Calle Real, Goleta CA 93117
http://www.santa-barbara-hotel.com/

From the Santa Barbara Airport
Call the hotel for a free shuttle from the airport, or take a taxi (and save receipt).

Driving Directions

• From the Santa Barbara Airport: Exit the airport and make a right on Moffett Place (heading toward the ocean). Follow Moffett Place around to the left and merge onto Highway 217 headed Northeast. Take the Patterson Avenue exit and turn left onto Patterson Avenue. Go .2 miles and take another left onto Calle Real. The South Coast Inn will be on your right in about half a mile.
• From 101 Northbound (from LA, Santa Barbara, and all points South): Take the Patterson Avenue exit in Goleta (the outlying town just after you pass through Santa Barbara) and turn right onto Patterson Avenue. Go .2 miles and take a left onto Calle Real. The South Coast Inn will be on your right in about half a mile.
• From 101 Southbound (from Goleta, San Luis Obispo, and all points North): Take the Patterson Avenue exit in Goleta (the outlying town to the south just before you get to Santa Barbara) and turn left onto Patterson Avenue. Go .2 miles and take another left onto Calle Real. The South Coast Inn will be on your right in about half a mile.

Map: http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=5620+Calle+Real&csz=Goleta%2C+CA&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=

From the Best Western South Coast Inn, exit the hotel parking lot and turn left on Calle Real. Follow Calle Real for about a mile and then take a right on Patterson. Make an immediate right and merge onto 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 the electronic kiosks in the lot.

Morning refreshments and lunch on both days of the conference (June 17-18) will be catered to the conference location. There will also be a wine and appetizers reception after the last panel on the first day of the conference (June 17th).

Dinner arrangements are as follows:

Thursday June 16, 6:30 pm: Pre-Conference Reception and Barbeque at the Conference Hotel (Best Western South Coast Inn), by the pool — If you are arriving on the day before the conference, come chat, eat, relax, and enjoy the sun.

Friday June 17, 8 pm: Dinner at Café Buenos Aires (1316 State St., Santa Barbara, Phone: 805.963.0242). Main entrees (one of the following):

• Churrasco
  Grass fed, free range New York steak, grilled to taste, sweet potato fries, seasonal vegetables, “chimichurri porteñoâ€? and roasted garlic-horseradish “cremaâ€?


• Milanesa de Pollo
  Traditional tasty breaded chicken breast lightly fried and served with Argentine Fries and sauteed vegetables


• Canelones
  Trio of cannelloni — corn, wild mushrooms and spinach — served with tomato and béchamel sauces, shaved Argentine “sardoâ€? cheese

Saturday June 18, 8 pm: Dinner at Opal Restaurant (1325 State St., Santa Barbara, Phone: 805.966.9676). Main entrees (one of the following):

• Lemon Grass Crusted Salmon with a Thai Curry Sauce
  Served with Roasted Leeks and Jasmine Rice Timbale Wild Mushroom Stuffed


• Chicken Breast with a Tomato Marsala Cream
  On an Herb Risotto, with Fresh Steamed vegetables


• Herb Grilled Filet Mignon
  With Whipped Truffle Butter Yukon Potatoes and a Port Wine-Marsala and Wild Mushroom Cream Sauce


• Vegetarian Option Available

Users of today’s digital, networked information spend an increasing amount of time each day “reading” online. Yet the practices of digital reading in networked environments are not well understood according to the protocols of reading that arose in the past to support the individual, organizational, and social needs of literate societies—for example:

• protocols that govern the sustained, solitary reading of books “all the way through”
• protocols of “close reading,” rereading, and peer-review in scholarly research
• protocols of document usage that first arose in large organizations of the early twentieth century (e.g., retrieval from a “filing” system, document “review,” or document “summarizing”)

Instead, reading on the Internet often places a premium on searching, scanning, jumping, filtering, aggregating, organizing, and other kinds of radically discontinuous, low-attention, peripheral-vision, or machine-assisted reading practices that do not exactly map over predecessor practices of literacy. Online environments also make more important the social, collective experience of reading. Finally, online reading complements the emerging technologies that increasingly allow computers to write autonomously to each other across platforms and applications—as in the XML-based technologies that underlie new online text archives, “Web services,” and RSS newsreaders.

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?

The Transliteracies 2005 conference (Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading) assembles a distinguished group of theorists and practitioners from the humanities, arts, social sciences, computer science, and industry to talk about the fate of reading in the “new media” age. The conference initiates the Transliteracies research initiative.

Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art; Faculty, MFA Computer Arts Department, School of Visual Arts; and Director of Intelligent Agent (more…)

“How can reading online be improved? And what do we have to do to get there?”
(Discuss this seed question, which all three of the 2005 Transliteracies conversation roundtables conclude upon. See other seed questions and discussion map.)