Digital Resources in Humanities and Arts 2008 – Cambridge, UK, September 2008

 **CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES**

DRHA 2008: ‘New Communities of Knowledge and Practice’

University of Cambridge, September 14-17

Visit the website at www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/drha08/ for more information and a link to the proposals website.

The deadline for submissions will be 30 April 2008.

The DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries.  The conference, hosted by the University of Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from Sunday 14th September to Wednesday 17th September

The aim of the conference is to:

*       Establish a site for mutually creative exchanges of knowledge.

*       Promote discussion around new collaborative environments and

collective knowledge.

*       Encourage and celebrate the connections and tensions within the

liminal spaces that exist between the Arts and Humanities.

*       Redefine disciplinary boundaries.

*       Create a forum for debate around notions of the ‘solitary’ and

the collaborative across the Arts and Humanities.

*       Explore the impact of the Arts and Humanities on ICT: design and

narrative structures and visa versa.

There will be a variety of sessions concerned with the above but also with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and theorising around practice. There will also be various installations and performances focussing on the same theme. 

Keynote talks will be given by our plenary speakers who we are pleased to announce are Sher Doruff, Research Fellow (Art, Research and Theory Lectoraat) and Mentor at the Amsterdam School for the Arts, Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara and Sally Jane Norman, Director of the Culture Lab, Newcastle University.

In addition to this, there will be various round table discussions together with a panel relating to ‘Second Life’ and a special forum ‘Engaging research and performance through pervasive and locative arts projects’ led by Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham. Also planned is the opportunity for a more immediate and informal presentation of work in our ‘Quickfire’ style events. Whether papers, performance or other, all proposals should reflect the critical engagement at the heart of DRHA.

Cambridge’s venues range from the traditional to the contemporary all situated within walking distance of central departments, museums and galleries. The conference will be based around Cambridge University’s Sedgwick Site, particularly the West Road concert hall, where delegates will have use of a wide range of facilities including a recital room and a ‘black box’ performance space, to cater for this year’s parallel programming and performances.

  Sue Broadhurst

             DRHA Programme Chair

 

 

JSTOR / Research Information Network event in Edinburgh

JSTOR and the Research Information Network

Thursday 13 September 2007 , 09.00 to 12.00.  Digital Content and the Researcher
(Immediately prior to the Sustaining the Digital Library Symposium)

St. Trinneans Room in St. Leonards on the Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/explore/places/buildings/pollock-halls.html

How have scholars and librarians responded to the opportunities and challenges of digital scholarship? What are their expectations for the future development of online information resources? How is research practice changing in the digital environment?

To address these questions, the Research Information Network (RIN) – in collaboration with JSTOR – is holding a workshop in Edinburgh on 13 September 2007. A distinguished panel of speakers drawn from both JSTOR and the library community in the UK will provide updates and reports on new projects and recent studies.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly literature and extend access to the archive as broadly as possible. The key role of the RIN is to give the strategic leadership required to establish a national framework for research information provision, and to generate effective and sustainable arrangements for meeting the information needs of the professional research community.

Programme

9.00        Registration

9.15        JSTOR Update
Mike Spinella
Executive Director, JSTOR

9.30        19th Century Pamphlet Digitisation Project
John Kiplinger
Director of Production, JSTOR
&
Chris Fowler
Head of IT Strategy, University of Southampton

10.15      Questions and Discussion

10.30      Break

10.50      RIN Studies of Researchers
Michael Jubb
Director, RIN

11.10      Questions and Discussion

11.20      JSTOR/Ithaka Faculty & Librarian Studies
Mike Spinella
Executive Director, JSTOR
&
Bruce Heterick
Director of Library Relations, JSTOR

11.50      Questions and Discussion

12.00      Close

There is no registration fee for this workshop, but space is limited. If you are interested and available to attend, please RSVP by contacting David McTaggart of the National Library of Scotland by 11th September 2007.  D.mctaggart@nls.uk