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Libraries/DoIT to host May 2 symposium
'Arts & Humanities in a Digital Age: An Arts & Humanities Research Symposium'
Posted 4/1/2008
MADISON, Wis. – Two national leaders in digital research in the humanities are key presenters this spring in a UW-Madison symposium jointly sponsored by the libraries and the Division of Information Technology. The program at the Pyle Center on campus will be held 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at no charge to participants.
The symposium focuses on projects that use digital technology in the arts and humanities or study its impact. It will address collaborative research initiatives for faculty and students as well as the public’s ability to search and access arts and humanities information.
The keynote address will be given by Wendy Pradt Lougee, university librarian and McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota. She was the principal investigator for the JSTOR pilot.
Lougee currently serves on the boards of the Council of Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, and the Research Libraries Group Program Council, and recently chaired the Association of Research Libraries’ Task Force on E-Science. She was recognized by the Association of College and Research Libraries with the Hugh Atkinson Award for innovation in 2003. Lougee holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison (library science) and Minnesota-Twin Cities (psychology).
The symposium also features Peter Losin, a UW-Madison alumnus, ’78, MA’81, Ph.D.’85, of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), who will describe the Digital Humanities Initiative, a program aimed at supporting the creation or study of digital humanities projects.
A panel of UW-Madison arts and humanities faculty and graduate students will offer participants a chance to share ideas from the discussions. The panel is likely to include Associate Vice Chancellor Laurie Beth Clark, Scandinavian Studies Professor Jim Leary, Associate Professor of English John McKenzie and graduate student Natalie Van Deusen.
The planning committee for the symposium includes: GLS Deputy Director Ed Van Gemert, Memorial Library Head of Public Services Lisa Saywell (chair), Memorial Library Director Lee Konrad, Music Library Director Jeannette Casey, Digital Repository Librarian Dorothea Salo, and Jim Muehlenberg and Hideko Mills, both of DoIT.
For more information about the symposium and registration, see: http://www.cio.wisc.edu/events/researchconf/may08/.
