Information + Humanities Conference
2016-10-26 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
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

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/information-humanities-conference/
