Transcriptions Research Slam

Transcriptions Research Slam
Friday, May 9, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCSB South Hall 2635

Please join us on Friday, May 9th for a research event consisting of three sequential media poster sessions, followed by discussion and a reception.  RSVP to researchslam@gmail.com

Participating Scholars
What is a Research Slam?
Credits
Event Schedule
Abstracts
Event Pictures
Participating Scholars:
  • Jeremy Douglass on visual rhetoric for large displays.
  • Tassie Gniady on representations of the Hog-faced woman.
  • Christopher J. Hagenah on deforming Jason Lutes' Berlin.
  • Bola C. King on health communication-campaigns in "Second Life."
  • Bola C. King and Amanda Phillips on publicly editable maps (GeoWikis) in virtual spaces.
  • Kim Knight on the viral dissemination of media adaptations.
  • Kris McAbee on visualizing the rise and fall of the Sonneteer in sixteenth-century England and beyond.
  • Jessica Murphy on a digital humanities approach to Early Modern gender.
  • Eric Nebeker on the English Broadside Ballad Archive - Today and Tomorrow.
  • Megan Palmer on the woodcuts of EBBA.
  • Amanda Phillips on the narrative data stream.
  • Shaun Sanders on the tonal mapping of literature.
  • Elizabeth Swanstrom on the function of error in Giselle Beiguelman's "esc for escape."
  • William Warner on strategies for visualizing the American Revolution.

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What is a Research Slam?

 One of the goals of UCSB's Transcriptions Center is "to demonstrate a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities discipline."  With this in mind, the center is hosting a Research Slam: an experimental research presentation model that seeks to highlight the unique work done by scholars of media and information technology. 

While lectures, brown bag presentations, and research round tables can be informative and lively, the Research Slam is interested in taking the best components of these and combining them with the best qualities of a poster session and a poetry slam.  We are seeking to provide a forum for the presentation of ideas that un-structures, and perhaps goes beyond, the traditional academic encounter.   As such, the Research Slam will consist of three sequential media poster sessions, followed by a discussion session that brings the entire group together.  Each poster session will include one highlighted presentation to be projected at the front of the room.

A Research Slam is:
  • Non-linear intellectual encounters
  • Smaller, more personalized discussions, followed by a large group session
  • Multi-media, multi-modal, multi-temporal
  • Inclusive of faculty and students
  • Performative, interactive, playful
  • Burning man without the fire
  • A Poetry/Art slam without the judging
  • Interested in new paradigms of sharing scholarly work

A Research Slam is not:
  • Hierarchically divided into presenters & audience
  • Rigidly structured
  • Quiet
  • Lecture-based
  • Traditional
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Credits:

Planning Committee:  Kim Knight, Kris McAbee, and Julia Panko.
Transcriptions RAs: Mike Frangos and Chris J. Hagenah
Sponsors: The UCSB Transcriptions Center.

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