Category: Lectures and Conferences
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Experimental Publishing Symposia
Experimental Publishing – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and nature of experimentation in publishing, about ways in which experimental publishing has been formulated…
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Launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures
7th February 3.00pm Disruptive Media Learning Lab (Coventry University) Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-centre-for-postdigital-cultures-tickets-41968258190 You are invited to the launch of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), a new Faculty Research Centre at Coventry University. The launch will include keynote talks by 3 internationally esteemed speakers: Cornelia Sollfrank (Zurich University of the Arts) Monika Bakke (Adam…
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Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu, Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons
At the end of last year Times Higher Education invited me to provide an opinion piece on academic social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and to reflect on the ‘Why are we not boycotting Academia.edu?‘ event the Centre for Disruptive Media organised last December, featuring Pascal Aventurier, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and…
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New Media Gatekeepers: Ecosystems of Access and Denial
Coventry University School of Media and Performing Arts Ellen Terry Building – ETG101 April 22nd – 12:30-16:00 17:00: Book Launch and Wine Reception Organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media: http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Free Symposium. Please Register at: www.newmediagatekeepers. disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Speakers: Margie Borschke (Macquarie University) – Music (via Skype) James Newman…
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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online
In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’ Chaired…
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Radical Open Access Conference – Videos Online
In June of last year the Radical Open Access Conference (http://radicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk/) took place at Coventry University, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media (disruptivemedia.org.uk) The videos of the various panels are now available underneath and on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/@disruptive_media The conference gathered together a large community of presses, projects and thinkers exploring some of the more…
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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
With: Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk Schedule: 3:00-3:30: Registration tea/coffee 3:30-3:40: Introduction (Janneke Adema) 3:40-4:00: Pascal Aventurier…
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The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive (II)
Last month, together with Silvia Stoyanova, I delivered a lecture at the “Methodological Intersections”: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School 2015 (which Silvia co-organised) on the topic of ‘The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive’. Silvia’s part of the lecture has been posted here, underneath you can find my contribution. I would like to focus on some of the…
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The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive
Last month, together with Silvia Stoyanova, I delivered a lecture at the “Methodological Intersections”: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School 2015 (which Silvia co-organised) on the topic of ‘The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive’. Underneath Silvia’s fantastic contribution. I will post my part of the lecture tomorrow. The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive Power Point Slides In this lecture, we…
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Bookfuturism: Visions of the Future Book
Underneath a transcript of the talk I gave at the Norlit 2015: The Book to Come conference, which took place August 20-22 at Goteborg University. In it I outline the contours for a new research project on ‘visions of the future book’. The PP accompanying this talk can be accessed here. I want to share…
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Radical Open Access and The Politics of Publishing. A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations
A bit belated (I will be uploading some talks I gave during the last months in the next few days), underneath the paper I gave at the Radical Open Access conference, which we hosted at Coventry University 15-16th of June. The videos from this event will be available soon, and I will announce them here…
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Videos Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities
On March 9th the Centre for Disruptive Media hosted the third and final seminar in the Disrupting the humanities seminar series. This seminar was entitled ‘Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities‘, and featured papers by Monika Bakke, Lesley Gourlay, Niamh Moore and Iris van der Tuin. The videos of the presentations and the discussions afterwards are…