This two-day event features the following public events:

Tuesday, April 30, Hatcher Hatcher Gallery Space, Room 100

10 a.m. – Coffee reception

10:30 a.m. to 12: 30 p.m. - Library Lightning Talks

Libraries are emerging as collaboratories for interdisciplinary research and are important partners in fostering digitally-assisted humanities scholarship. These lightning talks will showcase examples of humanities cyberinfrastructure resources and case studies throughout MLibrary.

Convener, Elaine Westbrooks, Associate University Librarian for Research
Ӣ Justin Joque, Spatial and Numeric Data Librarian
Ӣ Eric Maslowski, Manager 3D Lab, Digital Media Commons
Ӣ Laurie Sutch, Director, Academic Technology Group
Ӣ Kevin Hawkins, Head of Publishing Production, Digital Publishing
Ӣ Shana Kimball, Head, Publishing Services, Outreach and Strategic Development
Ӣ Dan Fessahazion, Manager, Emerging Technologies Group, Digital Media Commons
Commentary Panel
Ӣ Paul Conway, University of Michigan
Ӣ Patrik Svensson, Umea University, Sweden
Ӣ Dean Rehberger, Director, MATRIX, Michigan State University

Wednesday, May 1, Rackham Amphitheatre, Fourth Floor

9 a.m. Continental breakfast welcome reception

10:00 to 11:30 a.m. - Talk by Patrik Svensson titled The Humanistiscope: Exploring the Situatedness of Humanities Cyberinfrastructure

This talk will focus on cyberinfrastructure, research infrastructure or e-science within the sphere of humanities. It argues that the humanities need to set their own infrastructural agenda based on the humanities as a project, scholarly challenges in the disciplines, and through a deeper connection of ideas with infrastructure. Patrik Svensson is a Professor in the humanities and information technology, and Director of HUMlab at Umeå University.