Friday, September 18
6:00 PM – Keynote Address, Eccles Auditorium, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
Saturday, September 19, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Tanner Humanities Center Conference Room
9:00 AM – New Media and the Environment
- Toby Miller, UC Riverside, “After the Internet”
- Kevin DeLuca, University of Utah, on media and the environment
- Dylan Wolfe, Clemson University, on visual rhetoric and online environmental activism
- Erich Schienke, Pennsylvania State University, “Environmental Information Systems and Ecological Governance in China”
10:30 AM – Break
10:45 AM – Region, Place, and Geography
- Jennifer Light, Northwestern University, “Mapping Risk: Cartography as Computation in Social Science and Policy”
- Craig Robertson, Northeastern University, on the passport as media
- Fred Turner, Stanford University, “Information Everywhere: What Art Worlds Do for Computers”
- Casey O’Donnell, University of Georgia, “Managing the Wild Wild East: Controlling the Frontiers of the Global Videogame Industry”
12:15 PM – Lunch
1:30 PM – New Media and the Practice of Scholarship
- Sharon Leon, George Mason University, “Historical Scholarship in the Commons Era”
- William Turkel, University of Western Ontario, “Matter, the New Medium”
- Dan O’Connor, Johns Hopkins University, “Postmodern Cowboys: Towards an Ethics of New Media Research”
- Matt Basso, University of Utah, “A West Both Local and Transnational: The Problems and Possibilities of Public History and Digital Scholarship”
3:00 PM – Break
3:15 PM – Wrap-up Session
- Led by Robert MacDougall, University of Western Ontario and 2009/10 Simmons Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Communication, University of Utah
