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| 1968: A GLOBAL YEAR OF STUDENT DRIVEN CHANGE |
11/9/2008 |
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11/20/2008 8:30 AM - 11/22/2008 5:00 PM UCSB campus
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 Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of a computer building on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a conference, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, will take place at UCSB from November 20-22, of 2008.
All are welcome! There is no need to register, and no fee to attend. The conference especially welcomes students, academics, artists, and people who are interested in how education changed in the 1960s, especially in 1968, when an upsurge occurred in the willingness of students around the globe to take the nature of their education into their own hands. We invite people to engage in a broad range of issues related to the transformation of education at this time by placing black student activism in a comparative and transnational context.
The English department is a co-sponsor of 1968. Click here for a schedule of events.
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| LCM Event: Gaps, Vexes, and the Digitas |
11/2/2008 |
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11/20/2008 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM South Hall 2635
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LISA SAMUELS
"Gaps, Vexes, and the Digitas"
 Lisa Samuels is a poet, critic, theorist, digital experimental writer, and
co-author with Jerome McGann of the influential essay "Deformance and
Interpretation." Presently
visiting the U.S. from New Zealand, where she is Associate Professor of
English at the University of Auckland, she will give a seminar/talk on
"Gaps, Vexes, and the Digitas" about "gap scans" - annotated deformances of
poetry - and some issues involved in composing her first digital poetry
piece, "Vex Increment." Her context is what she calls the "digitas," a term
for the digital humanities resonating with "civitas", digital acts, and the
digits of our hands. The talk is hosted by the English Department's
Literature.Culture.Media center.
For more information on Lisa Samuels, see the Electronic Poetry Center's
page: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/samuels/
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| L&M Symposium on new media and (new) modes of cognition |
10/6/2008 |
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11/24/2008 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM SH 2635
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 Literature & Mind Symposium
This meeting will focus on topics of attention, distraction, and new media. Reading will include N. Katherine Hayles, "Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes" (Profession; 2007).
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| LCM-Event: Film.Literature.Software Series |
11/18/2008 |
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12/1/2008 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM SH 2509 (LCM lab)
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Guest speaker: Aaron McLeran, MAT
The LCM's Film.Literature.Software series is pleased to present a software demo of the recently-released Spore. This newest game from the makers of SimCity and The Sims is perhaps the most sweeping simulation ever, starting from a cellular organism and ending with a spacefaring civilization.
 MAT graduate student Aaron McLeran, who worked on the game's generative music during software development, will be on hand to discuss his work. The Creature Creator program will also be available to allow for a hands-on experience with this unique content-authoring software.
All are welcome for the demo and discussion.
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| Job Search for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Literature and Media |
9/25/2008 |
We seek a candidate who specializes in literature and media technologies or cultures between 1800 and c. 1980, the epoch of modernization from the first industrial revolution to the onset of the current digital revolution. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research focuses on writing, reading, communicational, computational, visual, or sensory media in the period between early-modern technologies of writing and reading and contemporary digital technologies (two areas in which our department has strength). [read more]
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| Job Search for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Renaissance Studies |
9/25/2008 |
Tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications from candidates who specialize in Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare, and who can also teach a range of courses in Renaissance literature. We especially welcome candidates who can intersect with our department's Early Modern Center and other collaborative research and teaching initiatives, and can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. [read more]
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| bsPoems by Barry Spacks: Food for the Journey |
9/6/2008 |
Barry Spacks has published many short stories, collections of poems, and novels. He was the first poet laureate of Santa Barbara, and is a UCSB English and CCS Literature instructor.
Barry Spack's latest book, Food for the Journey, "continues the poet’s quest to attend gracefully to the things of this world, both common and unusual, and intuit their larger connections" (Cherry Grove Collections).
Maxine Hong Kingston says, "I enjoy reading Barry Spacks’ poetry for his attention to real things, real people, real life. He finds ways to know everything—the earth, the air—as miraculous, as beautiful, as playful."
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| English Department Expands Specializations Offerings |
7/7/2008 |
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| New Department Knowledge Base Wiki |
7/7/2008 |
Just launched is the new EDKB-Wiki (English Department Knowledge Base wiki). Developed with the aid of a UCSB instructional improvement grant, the wiki is designed to serve both instructors and students by housing much of the evolving, shared institutional wisdom of the department--e.g., syllabi for often-taught courses, sample assignments, teaching materials, "best practices," interviews with veteran teachers, guides to research, writing, technology, and much more.
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| Online World of “Second Life” |
9/24/2007 |
The UCSB Transcriptions Project is proud to announce its recent pedagogic and artistic foray into the online world of "Second Life," a popular 3-D virtual environment that first debuted for public use in 2003 and now supports over 30,000 concurrent users.
Funded by a 2007 Instructional Improvement Grant and developed under the direction of Profs. Rita Raley and Alan Liu, the project has successfully created its own experimental classroom space. This property is currently open for all registered Second Life users to explore and utilize for educational purposes. English department undergrads, grads, and faculty are invited to visit our virtual home at the following SLURL location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kerlingarfjoll/179/245/46.
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For more information, please visit the Transcription's Second Life Project blog.
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| Literature and the Environment Programs Launched |
9/1/2007 |
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 The English Department recently underscored its commitment
to the study of literature and the environment (often referred to as
"ecocriticism") by announcing a number of exciting new programs and
courses. In fact, a total of
fourteen L&E
courses will be taught in 2007-08 from a range of over twice that many that
will now be regularly offered. Undergraduates
can both declare an Undergraduate
Specialization in Literature and the Environment (USLE) for the first time,
as well as have the option of completing it with honors. Graduate
students now have the benefit of a L&E
graduate colloquium, teaching
opportunities, and other exciting new proposals. A number of L&E
events will also be taking place throughout 2007-08. UCSB's commitment to environmental
issues dates from 1969; after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history off
the coast of Santa Barbara, a group of twenty-one UCSB faculty members calling
themselves the Friends of the Human
Habitat helped create the modern environmental movement. This commitment to
the environment continues today with our English Department, especially the twelve
Professors
that teach L&E courses.
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| Transliteracies Project Awarded UC Funding |
10/8/2005 |
 In summer 2005, the Transliteracies Project for research in the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading was granted status as a University of California Multi-Campus Research Group (MRG) for 2005-2010, with total funding of $175,000 from the UC system and another $175,000 in cost sharing from UC Santa Barbara. Headquartered in the UCSB English Department, the project is directed by UCSB Professor Alan Liu and includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering from throughout the University of California system. Over five years, the group will study historical reading practices alongside contemporary digital technologies in order to define a framework, development plan, and speculative tools to improve online reading and, equally important, to understand what "improvement" might mean in a broad cultural and historical perspective. The project was launched at a June 2005 planning conference featuring well-known speakers from universities and industry. (fuller statement of Transliteracies topic) (Transliteracies Web site)
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| Early Modern Center Creates Online Ballad Archive |
10/7/2005 |
 The Department's Early Modern Center (EMC) is well on its way to completing an online archive of Samuel Pepys's collection of English broadside ballads, the most important such collection of the seventeeth century. Created with permission from the Pepys Library at Magdelene College, Cambridge, as part of the EMC's ongoing English Ballad Archive, 1500-1800, The Pepys Ballad Archive currently makes available on the Web facsimiles of all 1,857 ballads that Pepys collected; extensive cataloguing of the ballads; introductory essays about ballad culture and the categories in which Pepys assembled his ballads; sample transcriptions, audios of musicians reconstructing the original songs, XML encodings of the works; and sophisticated search functions. In the future, the EMC plans to complete its "facsimile transcriptions" (allowing the reader to toggle back and forth between the difficult to read "black letter" font of the original ballads and roman-type transcriptions that preserve the works' original illustrations and ornaments) and expand its musical repertory to 1,000 available tunes. The goal of the ballad project is to open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music.
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| Race and Pedagogy Project Launched |
9/27/2005 |
 The English Department recently announced the creation of a new web resource: the Race and Pedagogy Project (http://rpp.english.ucsb.edu/). A product of the department's Diversity Work Group and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, this resource provides teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials. The project has been inspired by lively, ongoing exchanges regarding anti-racist teaching strategies, exchanges that have evolved in a wide variety of disciplines and educational settings. The site attempts to convey the range of these engagements by highlighting representative examples of scholarship. The site developers envision this as a multi-year endeavor and they encourage suggestions and advice from site visitors, especially at this early stage. The site is carefully designed to lend many different voices to race and pedagogy dialogues. To this end, visitors are encouraged to add their comments by making use of the dialogue boxes positioned after each research summary and bibliography. The RPP development team includes four English graduate students, Susan Cook, David Roh, Benjamin Shockey and Katherine Voll, as well as Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones. The project has been funded by UCSB’s Office of Research and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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