Announcing the Second Annual Research Slam
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Literature.Culture.Media Center Research Slam
Where poster session meets poetry slam!
Friday, May 22, 2009
1:00 – 5:00 pm
Department of English, South Hall Second Floor
1:00 – 1:10 Opening Remarks, SH 2635
1:15 – 2:00 Session I, SH 2635
Nick Alward – Special Content
Hypertext-based project exploring forced simulated torture and our perception of war through both a narrative structured around a hypothetical CIA black site in New Mexico and an essay discussing World of Warcraft.
Salman Bakht – _object.soundingspace.textfield
Sound installation designed for an academic conference setting exploring dichotomies found in language: speech/text, semantics/phonology, sense/nonsense, etc.
Jenna Frazier – Sitt-Marie Rose: The Deaf-Mute Perspective
Using web design and text-analysis tools to explore the significance of the deaf-mute sections in Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie-Rose.
Bola C. King – Pedagogical Affordances and Opportunities in Second Life
Discussing general teaching possibilities and a look at UCSB Lane and its possibilities and limitations.
Julia Panko – Literature on the Record: Mourning, Memory, and Information Storage in The Raw Shark Texts
Exploring how Hall’s print novel performs crucial digital humanities work by situating these themes within the intersections between narrative, storage technologies, print, and contemporary information culture.
2:10 – 2:55 Session II, SH 2509
Anne Cong-Huyen – CouchSurfing Toward Self: Identity in Literary and Virtual Space
Exploring contemporary identities that are continually constructed and evolving within digital spaces and communities.
Kim Knight – Describing the Viral
Tag clouds that are drawn from the descriptive labels applied to a sampling of content on YouTube.
Richard Lau – Sacco on Sacco
Analyzing the role of authorial self-insertion in Joe Sacco’s landmark works of New Journalism, graphic novels /Safe Area: Gorazde /and /Palestine/.
Amanda Phillips – The Uncanny Abyss: Reflections on Anxiety, Robots, and Intersubjective Relations
Reworking Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley, theorizing the anxiety induced by robots, realistic CGI, and artificial intelligence.
3:10 – 3:40 Discussion, SH 2635
Led by Anne Cong-Huyen, Julia Panko, and Amanda Phillips
3:40 – 3:50 Closing Remarks
3:50 – 5:00 Reception