Arts & Humanities
in the Digital Age:
An Arts & Humanities Research Symposium
Friday, May 2, 2008
Pyle Center
Presentations: 9:00AM – 1:00PM
Lunch and Poster Sessions: 1:00PM – 2:30PM
Agenda
Online registration is now closed. Registration at the door will be available.
The UW-Madison Libraries and the Office of the CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology are co-sponsoring a symposium related to projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology in the arts and humanities. These technologies offer faculty and students new methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships, presenting their scholarship and increasing the public’s ability to search and access arts and humanities information. The goal of this symposium is to explore collaborative research initiatives, with a focus on the arts and humanities.
Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota will provide the keynote address, building on work she has done pertaining to building cyberinfrastructure support for the arts and humanities today. View Wendy's presentation (.ppt).
Peter Losin from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will describe the Digital Humanities Initiative, a program aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology. View Peter's presentation (.ppt).
A panel of UW-Madison arts and humanities faculty and graduate students will offer participants a chance to share ideas from the discussions. View Jon McKenzie's presentation (.ppt).
Speakers
Wendy Lougee
Wendy Pradt Lougee is University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, a position she has held since 2002. Well known for her pioneering contributions to the design and development of digital libraries, Lougee is a frequent speaker and consultant on issues associated with publishing, digital content and tools, and the economics of information.
She has been recognized by the Association of College and Research Libraries with the Hugh Atkinson Award for innovation. She currently serves on the boards of the Council of Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, and the Research Libraries Group Program Council, and recently chaired the Association of Research Libraries’ Task Force on E-Science. Lougee holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (library science) and Minnesota-Twin Cities (psychology).
Peter Losin
Peter Losin is one of several program officers for the NEH Digital Humanities Initiative, a new initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology.
In addition to his work with the NEH as a database and web developer, Peter is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in University Honors at the University of Maryland, College Park and since the early 1990s has maintained an online Miles Davis discographical database. He has taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, the College of Charleston, and Gonzaga University. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin in 1985.
Any questions may be directed to Lisa Saywell or Hideko Mills.