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DIGITAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA
May 13th-May 17th

This interdisciplinary institute will foster dynamic interactions among ideas, theories, and critical perspectives within the broad area of digital technologies.

5/13 Digital Art
5/14 Digital Scholarship & Publishing
5/15 Digital Democracy, the Digital Divide, and the Politics of Big Data
5/16 Electronic Literature and Digital Humanities
5/17 Funding Digital Projects

Keynote Speakers:

• N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English Duke University
• Lev Manovich, Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

Featured Speakers:

• Virginia Eubanks, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Albany, State University of New York
• Dene Grigar, Director & Associate Professor at The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver
• Jennifer Guiliano, Assistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities<http://mith.umd.edu/>, University of Maryland
• Davin Heckman, Supervising Editor of the Electronic Literature Directory and Associate Professor of English, Siena Heights University
• Golan Levin, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon
• Safiya Umoja Noble, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor and Director of Digital Media Studies, Ohio State University

Co-Sponsors
VP for Research and Economic Development/Graduate College
College of Arts and Sciences
Institute for the Study of Culture and Society
School of Cultural and Critical Studies
College of Technology
History Department
English Department
School of Art
Jerome Library

This institute is free and open to the public. BGSU graduate students may also receive a certificate in Digital Cultures for participating.

Reading Groups will be held March 15-April 26 on Fridays 9:30-11:30 In the East Hall Lounge.

For more information go to the Digital Cultures Institute website at www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/digitalcultures