Author Archives: Steve Anderson

The Social Logics of Global Archives

On May 7th I attended the first event of the new Global Archivalities Research Network. This was a virtual conference hosted over Adobe Connect, with a viewing location in the UC Riverside History Library. The group is organized by Dr. … Continue reading

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New Faculty Book: David Bates, States of War

States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political (Columbia University Press, 2012) by David Bates – Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media States of War addresses one of the most pressing concerns … Continue reading

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Legacies of the Mediterranean Symposium

“What’s Up With Mediterranean Studies?” Legacies of the Mediterranean Symposium May 4, 10:30 – 3:00 CHASS INTS 1113   Invited Speaker: Professor Sharon Kinoshita (UCSC) Sharon Kinoshita is a Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Co-director of the UCSC … Continue reading

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Copyright and Patenting Workshop @ Caltech

Copyright and Patenting Workshop Treasure Room, Dabney Hall, Caltech Friday May 11, 2012 9:00 AM 9:00 – 9:30 am COFFEE AND PASTRIES 9:30 – 10:30 am Myles Jackson (Caltech/NYU), “The Patenting of the BRCA1 and 2 Genes: Molecular Biology and … Continue reading

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UCHRI: “The (Technological) University We Could Be For”

[Digital Media and Learning Competition] “The (Technological) University We Could Be For” Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | 3:30-5:30 PM 135 Humanities Instructional Building, UC Irvine – with – Geof Bowker, Informatics, UC Irvine Beth Coleman, Comparative Media Studies, MIT Johanna … Continue reading

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Changes to Email Subscriptions and RSS feed

We have a new setup for Email Subscriptions and the RSS feed. The new Email Subscription form connects directly to WordPress, and it can be found in the sidebar to the right → The new RSS feed URL is: http://materialcultures.ucr.edu/feed/ We … Continue reading

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“Collections in Flux: The Dynamic Spaces and Temporalities of Collecting” (UCLA Clark Library, 2014)

“Collections in Flux: The Dynamic Spaces and Temporalities of Collecting” Clark Library Conference, Spring 2014 Organized by Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside) and Mary Terrall (UCLA) in collaboration with the UC Multicampus Research Group on the Material Cultures of Knowledge and the UCLA Clark Library. … Continue reading

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Conference: Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas

Conference at The Huntington Library: Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas March 2–3 (Fri.–Sat.) 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. In this conference, historians and art historians investigate the role and interpretation of visual objects such as drawings, prints, and paintings as well as … Continue reading

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CFP: Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800

The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara invites paper proposals for our eleventh annual conference, “Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800.”  The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2012 at UCSB and will feature keynote … Continue reading

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UCR Event: Perpitube – An Ongoing Dialog with Natalie Bookchin and Alex Juhasz

Perpitube : An Ongoing Dialog with Natalie Bookchin and Alex Juhasz will be presented by the The Center for Ideas and Society Mellon Workshop through the Critical Digital Humanities research group at UCR. The event takes place January 31, 2012 in HMNSS 1500 on … Continue reading

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