Wednesday November 4th, Matthew Hindman will speak at the Columbia Communications Colloquium, 12-2 p.m. (room 601B).
The title is:
“The Elephant and the Butterfly: The Curious Political Economy of Web Traffic.”
The event is free and open to the public.
Philosophers, yes, but philosophers who have a lot to say about media and communications.
Philosophy Department Workshop Series – Critchley,
Butler, Ranciere
10/23/2009 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
A conversation with Simon Critchley, Judith Butler and Jacques Rancière
An events hosted by Verso
Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55
West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-
come first-served
By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School
Wednesday, October 21, and Thursday, October 22, 2009
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free
www.veralistcenter.org
“Digital Media and the Transformation of Consumer Culture”
Room 601A, Journalism 12:00 – 2:00pm, Columbia University
The seminar is free and open to the public.
Can Public Policy Save the News? The Uncertain History and Future of Journalism
Room 601C, Journalism 12:00 – 2:00pm, October 15
Second Tuesdays presents Out In The Country by Mary Gray
Tuesday, October 13 2009 : 6:30pm at The Center
From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the
Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of
today’s rural queer youth. Gray maps out the experiences of young
people living in small towns across rural Kentucky providing a
fascinating and often surprising look at the contours of gay life
beyond the big city.
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Mary L. Gray
Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture
Affiliate Faculty of Gender Studies
Adjunct Faculty, American Studies and Anthropology
Indiana University
Histories of Reading/Reading Processes
Friday, October 16, 2009
A one-day conference sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Group in the
Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University,
with support from the Department, the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library and a Mellon Foundation
grant on the future of the disciplines.
Bio: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Director of the Information + Innovation Policy Research Centre. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Before coming to the LKYSPP he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard¹s Kennedy School of Government. In addition to “Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”, Mayer-Schönberger has published seven books, and over a hundred journal articles (including in SCIENCE) and book chapters. A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schönberger founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He chairs the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy, is the cofounder of the SubTech conference series, and served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS (Econ) from the London School of Economics. In his spare time, he likes to travel, go to the movies, and learn about architecture.
Abstract: DELETE: THE VIRTUE OF FORGETTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE (October 2009). DELETE argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, we’ve put ourselves in danger of losing a very human quality—the ability and privilege of forgetting. Our digital memories have become double-edged swords—we expect people to “remember” information that is stored in their computers, yet we also may find ourselves wishing to “forget” inappropriate pictures and mis-addressed emails. And, as Mayer-Schönberger demonstrates, it is becoming harder and harder to “forget” these things as digital media becomes more accessible and portable and the lines of ownership blur. Mayer-Schönberger examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting—digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software—and proposes an ingeniously simple solution: expiration dates on information.
Thanks to Andie Tucher for the forward
As part of a New York City-wide celebration of the 50th anniversary of William S. Burroughs’s NAKED LUNCH, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University will host an afternoon of talks:
October 9, 2009
Columbia University Faculty House, 3rd floor
1-6pm
A reception and an exhibition viewing will follow at 6pm in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/2009-09-16.nakedlunch.html
The topics for the Columbia sessions will include Textual Studies, Bibliography, and Publishing History. For a detailed schedule of Columbia talks & events, see the attached schedule & map.
For other events celebrating Burroughs’s NAKED LUNCH in NYC October 7-10, see:
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/news/index.jsp?sid0=228&page_id=519&content_id=3134
