Conference Panels

CONFERENCE PANELS

October 29, 2010

9:00 A.M. - Welcoming Remarks [video] [write-up]

Barbara J. Grosz, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Harvard College Professor, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Leah Price, Senior Advisor to the Humanities Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of English and Harvard College Professor, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

9:15 A.M. - Opening Conversation [video] [write-up] (Moderator: Nancy F. Cott, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library and Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University

Stuart Shieber RI '07, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Faculty Codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

10:00 A.M. - Break

10:30 A.M. - Session I: Storage and Retrieval [video] [write-up] (Moderator: John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources, and Faculty Codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)

Adrian Johns, Professor of History, University of Chicago, "The Use and Abuse of the Universal Library"

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland, "The .txtual Condition"

12:00 P.M. - Lunch

1:15 P.M. - Session II: Circulation and Transmission [video] [write-up] (Moderator: David D. Hall, Bartlett Research Professor of New England Church History, Harvard Divinity School)

Isabel Hofmeyr, Head of the Discipline of African Literature and Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, "Indian Ocean Books"

Meredith L. McGill, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, "Print Outside the Book"

2:45 P.M. - Break

3:15 P.M. - Session III: Reception and Use [video] [write-up] (Moderator: Homi K. Bhabha RI '05, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

Paul Duguid, Adjunct Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Information, "The World According to GREP:search in Context"

Elizabeth Long, Department Chair and Professor of Sociology, Rice University, "Loving Books in the Digital Age"

4:45 P.M. - Closing Remarks and Discussion [video] (Moderator: Charles E. Rosenberg, Professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences)

Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania