Category: Lectures and Conferences
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Radical Open Access Conference
Coventry University 15th – 16th of June 2015 Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis…
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Radical Methodologies for the Posthumanities
The Centre for Disruptive Media presents Disrupting the Humanities A series of 3 half-day seminars looking at research and scholarship in a ‘posthumanities’ context, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. Disrupting the Humanities will both critically engage with the humanist legacy of the humanities, and creatively explore alternative and affirmative possible…
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Knowledge Machines: Conference Report and Video Recordings now available
On the 27th of September of this year, the Centre for Disruptive Media teamed up with Kent’s TEEME programme to host Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A Symposium on Alternative Practices for Humanities Research, at the University of Kent. A conference report is now available which you can find underneath. The video recordings of…
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Embracing Messiness
Last week, from the 12-14th of November, I attended The Post-Digital Scholar Conference. Publishing between Open Access, Piracy and Public Spheres, in Lüneburg, organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab. I gave a paper in the panel ‘The Mess that Open Access has become’, organised by Andreas Kirchner, and including Armin Beverungen (Leuphana University), Martin Haspelmath…
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Open Education: Condition Critical
Open Education: Condition Critical A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education can be http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Coventry University Panellists: Sean Dockray (The Public School/AAAAARG.ORG) – via Skype Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester) Shaun Hides (Coventry University) Sharon Irish (University of Illinois/FemTechNet)…
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Videos Aesthetics of the Humanities Seminar
On June 11th the Centre for Disruptive Media hosted the second seminar in the Disrupting the humanities seminar series. This seminar was entitled ‘The aesthetics of the humanities: towards a poetic knowledge production’, and featured fantastic papers by Erin Manning, Søren Pold, Johanna Drucker and Silvio Lorusso. The videos of the presentations and the discussions…
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Entangled Knowledge Production
Last June, I gave a position paper on feminism, writing and academic publishing as part of a panel on Feminist Publishing, which was convened as part of a larger conference on Feminist Writing by Sarah Kember and Sarah Ahmed for Goldsmiths’ Centre for Feminist Research. The panel also included wonderful papers by Carol Stabile, Joe…
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Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. Symposium on alternative practices in humanities research
TEEME and The Centre for Disruptive Media present: Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A symposium on alternative practices in humanities research Saturday, 27 September 2014 from 11:00 to 18:15 University of Kent Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 Grimond Building CT2 7NZ Canterbury United Kingdom http://www.kent.ac.uk/knowledge-machines Registration: http://www.knowledgemachines.eventbrite.co.uk/ Knowledge Machines is a free one-day symposium…
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Experiments in editing
On March 7th of this year we ran our first seminar as part of the Disrupting the Humanities Seminar Series at Coventry University, which has been organised by the Centre for Disruptive media. You can find more information about this series here. The videos for this seminar, entitled ‘Disrupting the scholarly establishment. How to create…
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Creative Hacktivism
Creative Hacktivism Seminar presented at BOM (Birmingham Open Media) in collaboration with the Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University Tuesday 24th June, 10.30am – 5.00pm FREE but places strictly limited and must be booked in advance through Eventbrite Hacker ethics and cultures have inspired some of the most innovative digital developments, from Apple’s design to…
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…………………………. Feminist Writing …………………………
Next week I will be giving a position paper on feminism, writing and academic publishing as part of a panel on Feminist Publishing which includes some of the most exciting voices in current academic and artistic publishing, including Carol Stabile, Joe Deville, Andrea Francke, Eva Weinmayr, and Pauline van Mourik Broekman. This panel is part…
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The Centre for Disruptive Media presents Disrupting the Humanities A series of 3 half-day seminars looking at research and scholarship in a ‘posthumanities’ context, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. Disrupting the Humanities will both critically engage with the humanist legacy of the humanities, and creatively explore alternative and affirmative possible…