Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age: An Arts and Humanities Research Symposium

April 15, 2008 by Lisa Jansen

On Friday, May 2, 2008, the UW-Madison Libraries and the Office of the CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology are co-sponsoring a symposium related to projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology in the arts and humanities.

These technologies offer faculty and students new methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships, presenting their scholarship and increasing the public’s ability to search and access arts and humanities information. The goal of the symposium is to explore collaborative research initiatives, with a focus on the arts and humanities.

Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Professor at the University of Minnesota will provide the keynote address, building on work she has done pertaining to building cyberinfrastructure support for the arts and humanities today.

Peter Losin from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will describe the Digital Humanities Initiative, a program aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology.

A panel of UW-Madison arts and humanities faculty and graduate students will offer participants a chance to share ideas from the discussions. See http://www.cio.wisc.edu/events/researchconf/may08/ for agenda, registration, and more.