LINGUIST List 12.593

Fri Mar 2 2001

Confs: Interdisciplinary Collaboration/ New Jersey

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Susan Schreibman, Interdisciplinary Collaboration/ New Jersey

New Media, New Links
An International Conference on Interdisciplinary Collaboration
27 March 2001
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark
http://womenscenter.njit.edu/newmedia

"New Media, New Links" will explore cross-disciplinary collaboration between
computer scientists and humanists/artists. The Keynote Presentation,
"Experiments in the Future of Reading: An Exhibit Report" , will be given by
Dr Anne Balsamo, Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox), author of "Technologies
of the Gendered Body ".

Other featured speakers include:

Dr Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin) and Dr Susan Schreibman (NJIT)
"Computation meets the Humanities: Progressing from Pidgin to Creole";

Dr Nancy Coppola (NJIT), Dr Naomi Rotter (NJIT) and Dr Starr Roxanne Hiltz
(NJIT) "Becoming a Virtual Professor";

a lunchtime performance, "LATUS" by Nicole Peyrafitte, New Media
Performance Artist (see http://nicolepeyrafitte.com/projectdescription.htm
for more details);

a Panel Discussion moderated by Dr Nancy Steffen-Fluhr (NJIT), "Gender
Socialisation and New Media Collaboration".

"New Media, New Links" is being hosted by The Murray Center for Women in
Technology as part of Women's History Month. For further information, please
visit < http://womenscenter.njit.edu/newmedia >, or phone Talina Knox at
973-642-4671.