[UCI-Calit2] Event Webs: Constructs, Connections, Causalities

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Mon May 5 09:46:35 PDT 2008


You are invited to:

 

Event Webs: Constructs, Connections, Causalities
May 9th, 2008 | 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Calit2 auditorium

Human understanding of history, science, culture, and even personal
experience, identifies "events" as a central organizing concept. The
World Wide Web has shown the power of expressing connections in a cyber
infrastructure. Event Webs combines the conceptual power of "events"
with the structural strengths of the Web. The conference explores this
novel synergy in the areas of literature, cognition, religion, history
and culture from the viewpoints of distinguished experts in these areas.

Speakers include Donald Hoffman
<http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/personnel/hoffman/hoffman.html> , UC Irvine
professor of cognitive science, in conversation with Ngugi wa Thiong'o
<http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/english/faculty/p
rofile.cfm?ID=4914> , UCI Distinguished Professor of Comparative
Literature and director of the International Center for Writing and
Translation; and Jack Miles
<http://faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5508> , UCI Distinguished
Professor of English and Religious Studies Sciences. The conversation
will continue with Ruth Mostern
<http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rmostern/index.html> , professor of
history, UC Merced; Lewis Lancaster
<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/lancaster.html> , professor emeritus
of East Asian literature at UC Berkeley, and founder and director of the
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/lancaster.html> ; and Ryan Shaw
<http://dream.berkeley.edu/%7Eryanshaw/wordpress/bio/> , Ph.D. student
at UC Berkeley's School of Information. 

Ramesh Jain <http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/> , Bren Professor of Information
and Computer Sciences, will be introducing the event webs theme and the
end-of-the-day roundtable. Vicki Ruiz, dean of the School of Humanities,
will make opening remarks, and Bonnie Nardi, UCI professor of
informatics, and Maria Pantelia, UCI professor of classics, will be
session conveners. 

Continental breakfast is provided to speakers and attendees at 8:15 a.m.

This event is open to the public. For further information, contact
humanitech at uci.edu or Maritess Santiago at (949) 824-3638. 

Conference schedule:

8:15-8:45 a.m.           Continental Breakfast
8:45-9 a.m.                Welcome, Dean Vicki Ruiz, School of
Humanities
9-9:15 a.m.                Introduction, Ramesh Jain: "Webs of Events"
9:15-11:30 a.m.         Morning Session: Imagination, Belief, Reality
Introduction of presenters by convener/moderator, Maria Pantelia,
Classics
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: "The Reality of Imagination"
Donald Hoffman: "The Visual Perception of Objects and Events"
Jack Miles: "Monitoring the Remembering of the Religious Past"

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.      Lunch Break/Demonstrations
1-1:15 p.m.                Afternoon Welcome
1:15-3 p.m.                 Afternoon Session: History, Culture,
Experience
Introduction of presenters by convener/moderator, Bonnie Nardi,
Informatics
Ruth Mostern: "Eventful History"
Lewis Lancaster and Ryan Shaw: "Events, Facts, and Narratives"
3-3:15 p.m.                Break
3:15-4:30 p.m.           Round Table Wrap-Up
Introduction, Ramesh Jain: "Building Event Webs"
Group discussion moderated by Bonnie Nardi

Co-sponsored by HumaniTech(r), Network and Academic Computing Services,
the International Center for Writing and Translation, and the Humanities
Center.

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