New Horizons in Teaching and Research 2008 Conference May 19 - 22
The New Horizons conference will feature a wide variety of speakers and events over the course of four days. Join us beginning on Monday afternoon, May 19th, for open house events at major digital labs, centers, and teaching spaces around Grounds and for our opening plenary presentation by Dan Cohen: "Creating Scholarly Tools and Resources for the Digital Ecosystem". A reception will follow.
For Tuesday, we plan a series of faculty presentations on digital resources and instructional technology, lunchtime roundtable sessions on proposed UVA centers for Computational Science and Digital Humanities, and a late afternoon multimedia performance event.
Faculty presentations will continue on Wednesday, when the lunchtime roundtable topics will include ITC and Library-based "communities" and a discussion of infrastructure for teaching with technology. That evening, noted visualization specialist Ben Fry will show his beautiful work in "Computational Information Design".
The 2008 conference concludes on Thursday, May 22nd, with a set of hands-on workshops and a closing plenary session in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom (where box lunches will be served). This panel discussion on scholarship in an age of mass digitization will feature representatives from Google Books and the Open Content Alliance, and TAPoR director Geoffrey Rockwell.
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