Transcriptons presents the 5th Annual Research Slam
May 14th, 2012The English Department’s Transcriptions Center presents the 5th Annual Research Slam
Friday, May 25, 2012
1 pm – 5:00 pm
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of English
South Hall 2509
One of the goals of UCSB’s Transcriptions Center is to investigate and highlight innovative ways of combining traditional humanities research with information media and technology. In this tradition, the Transcriptions Center is hosting the fifth annual Research Slam to showcase the unique work done by scholars interested in these intersections.
The goal of the Research Slam is to combine the best features of traditional academic humanities venues like lectures and roundtables with the free-flowing and participatory focus of the poster session and poetry slam. The format includes a series of parallel presentations, followed by a plenary discussion at the end of the afternoon.
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





