All sessions take place at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.

FRIDAY October 28

9:00–9:30 a.m.: Coffee/breakfast

9:30–10:30 a.m.: Welcome

• Eric Hayot (Penn State), “Information as a Humanistic Concept"

10:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Session 1

• Chair: Cory Geraths (Penn State )
• Bernard Geoghegan (Yale University/Coventry University), “Information”
• Wolf Kittler (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Information and/or Energy”
• Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Infrastructure”

12:45–2:00 p.m.: Buffet lunch

2:00–3:45 p.m.: Session 2

• Chair: Eric Novotny (Penn State)
• Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois), “Metadata”
• Jeremy Braddock (Cornell University), “Libraries, 1939”
• Laura Helton (Penn State University), “Classification”
• Xiao Liu (McGill University/Penn State University), “Interface”

Coffee break

4:00–5:45 p.m.: Session 3

• Chair: Jessamyn Abel (Penn State)
• Wendy Chun (Brown University), “Network Analysis and Identity Politics”
• Catherine D'Ignazio (Emerson College), “Visualization”
• Victoria Salinger (Penn State), “Computer Art at Bell Labs”

6:00: Conference dinner

SATURDAY October 29

9:00–9:30 a.m.: Coffee/breakfast

9:45–11:30 a.m.: Session 4

• Chair: Leisha Jones (Penn State)
• Sara Grossman, (Penn State), “Reduction”
• Caroline Levine (Cornell University), “Singular/general”
• Meredith McGill, (Rutgers University), “Format”
• Dan Rosenberg, (University of Oregon), “Keyword”

11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m.: Buffet Lunch

1:00-2:45 p.m.: Session 5

• Chair: Michelle Huang (Penn State)
• Anatoly Detwyler (Penn State), “Mosaic”
• Lydia Liu (Columbia University), “Psychic Life of Digital Media”
• Tom Mullaney (Stanford University), “Design”

Coffee break

3:30–5:15 p.m.: Session 6: Group Discussion