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This conference aims to explore the implications of the ‘new technologies’ in terms of both teaching and research and, crucially, in broader social and ethical terms. The conference will focus not on technical aspects, but on the wider issues of ethics, gender, cognition, and ideologies and, indeed, theologies of the object in the new virtual world.
Major keynote speakers will present their latest thinking and there will also be workshop sessions led by eminent specialists on archiving, exhibiting and on-line teaching. The conference will provide an opportunity for the sharing of perspectives on the use and the implications of new technologies in research and teaching in the arts and humanities. It will also be an occasion for active participation in workshops and the sharing of good practice.
An exhibition accompanying the conference will take place at UCL from 20-22 September. This will enable all conference participants to have hands-on experience of some successful projects in research, teaching and on-line exhibiting. The exhibition will also be open to students and members of the public.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 20 September
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 PLENARY SESSION
Igor Aleksander (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine)
Capturing Consciousness: The Implications of New Neural Modelling Technologies
11.00 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK
11.30 PLENARY SESSION
Marilyn Deegan (Refugee Studies Centre and University of Oxford) in collaboration with Harold Short (King’s College London)
Digital Scholarship, Digital Culture and the Future of the Academy
12.30 LUNCH
14.00 WORKSHOP
Susan Hockey (University College London)
The Long-term Implications of Electronic Resources in the Humanities
Paul Ayris (University College London)
The Cupboard is Bare? Archiving in an Electronic Environment
Willard McCarty (King’s College London)
Computing on the ‘Rough Ground’ of the Humanities, Here, Now, With What We’ve Got and the Qualities of Imagination it Takes
16.00 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK
16.30 WORKSHOP
Peter Ride (University of Westminster and DA2, Bristol)
Creative Applications of Networked Technologies in Education, Arts and Research
Seamus Ross (University of Glasgow)
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
18.00 OPENING of NEW TECHNOLOGIES EXHIBITION and RECEPTION (UCL)
19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER (UCL)
Friday 21 September
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 PLENARY
Doron Swade (National Museum of Science and Industry, London)
Virtual Objects: The End of the Real?
11.00 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK
11.30 George Landow (National University of Sinagapore)
Virtual Objects, Cyberspace Texts, and Real Students: The Education Uses of Digital Information Technology
12.30 LUNCH
14.00 WORKSHOP
Ziva Ben-Porat (University of Tel Aviv)
Let there be LEIT. New Technologies in the Service of New Tasks and Old Traditions Massimo Riva (Brown University)
A Single Art and Science: Incunabula for a Digital Humanism
16.00 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK
16.30 WORKSHOP
Tony Dunne and Bill Gaver (Royal College of Art)
Computer Related Design at the Royal College of Art
18.00 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Registration forms (on the Institute's website on http://www.sas.ac.uk/irs) should be sent to the Administrative Secretary at the Institute of Romance Studies.
Fees per day:
£25.00 Standard
£10.00 Members of IRS and concessions
£5.00 Graduate students in subscribing departments
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