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Symposium in New Media,Technology, and the Humanities 14-15 March 2016, Trondheim, Norway

FUTURESCAPES

futururescapesbildeThe Faculty of the Humanities at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is pleased to announce a two-day Symposium in New Media,Technology, and the Humanities organized in connection with the Meta.Morf Art +Technology Biennale which is devoted to the technology of outer space and interstellar travel.

Read more here:http://typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Futurescapes

Futurescapes shares the Biennale’s interest in interplanetarity, time, and the cosmic beyond, and in humans who dream, invent, construct, and destroy their way into the future. Specifically, the Symposium will explore new locations and entanglements of the humanities and technology, and offer a place for diverse scholars and educators to showcase their cosmic or future-oriented work across disciplinary boundaries. But, we will also learn new methodologies and interrogate critically how and with what tools humanists and technologists communicate with each other, think big ideas, and make things. Finally, we want Futurescapes to address the ethical, legal, and political implications of such work, and how it bears on the futures of our diverse fields.

On the 14th of March 2016 you can book a room in the Gunnerus library in Kalvskinnet to showcase your project! Contact us in this mail Alexandra.angeletaki@ub.ntnu.no

 

Submissions of Abstracts & Proposals

We invite Paper or Mixed-Media Project Abstracts, Proposals for Mini Workshops, and Proposals for Lightning Shorts. Please email them together with 100-word bios stating your academic affiliation and research interests to futurescapes@hf.ntnu.no.

Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent by November 30, 2015. Your presentations/talks should be no longer than 20 minutes and should acknowledge the interdisciplinary character of Futurescapes.

Proposals for Mini Workshops of up to 250 words should be sent by November 15, 2015. Your workshop proposals should introduce specific tools or interdisciplinary methodologies (for instance content and metadata annotation, data visualization/sonification tools, etc.) but also explain what kinds of research or pedagogical projects can be accomplished using these tools. Please be specific about the kinds of resources you will need to run your session.

Proposals for Lightning Shorts of up to 250 wordsshould be sent by November, 30 2015. Your Lightning Shorts micro talk/presentations (5-8 minutes) should introduce novel research, teaching, or digital humanities projects that sit at the intersections of new media, technology, science, and the humanities. PhD and MA students are particularly welcome to showcase their work.

Symposium Logistics

When: March 14-15, 2016 & Where: the Dragvoll Campus, KiT Gallery, The Gunnerus Archives, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

(Note that the Biennale opens on March 12. If you are interested in attending its opening events, plan to arrive in Trondheim during the weekend.)

Day 1: March 14, 2016

Dragvoll, 9.30-15.00: Plenary talk by Kari Krauss; panel talks, lightning shorts

Gunnerus Library Archive, 16.00-18.00: 3D tour at the MuBil Laboratory led by Alexandra Angeletaki

Day 2: March 15, 2016

Dragvoll, 9.30- 17.00: Plenary talk by Tobias Blanke; training sessions; lightning shorts

KiT Gallery, 19.00: Concluding remarks & Meta.Morf/Futurescapes Farewell Social Mixer. Soundscapes constructed by Frank Ekeberg

More details coming soon.

Organizers, Sponsors, & Partners

Futurescapes is organized by Dorothee Beermann, Professor of Linguistics and Hanna Musiol, Associate Professor of English, in partnership with Kunstakademiet i Trondheim (KiT), Meta.Morf, and Trondheim Electronic Arts Center (TEKS).The event is supported by the Institute for Language and Literature, The Humanities Faculty at NTNU, and NTNU libraries, Gunnerus branch.

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Dokumentering av truet kulturminner-seminar i Bergen 21. november

Exhibition at Gunnerus biblioteket

Bergen University and NTNU extends an invitation to a round-table seminar and invites archaeologists, students and scholars to participate.

Cultural Heritage in conflicts and Politics with professor Yiannis Hamilakis from Southampton university.

21.11.2015 11.00/16.00, Øysteingate 3, seminarom 1.

register here

Cultural heritage sites and Museums especially in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, are threatened by war, terrorism, climate change, earthquakes, floods, and other threats.  Gunnerus Library in Trondheim organized an exhibition on the subject in October in collaboration with Professor Emeritus, Lise Bender Jørgensen on Niniveh. Read more on that here .

Unesco (see the list of monuments in danger) has been working on the documentation and protection of these sites and has supported many regional initiatives and international teams to create awareness. Various initiatives around the world are now trying to work together in order to prevent illegal trafficking of  antiquities from monuments and archaeological sites threatened by war, climate and looting. ICOMOS and CYARK500 have established lately such an initiative, to launch a program for the emergency documentation of high risk cultural Heritage. The European Community supports many initiatives of such character, see Europeana, 3D icons, Lo-cloud, that is infrastructure projects of documentation and active participation of researchers, scholars and the general public in the protection of such sites. Interdisciplinary teams working on preservation of culture, ask society to participate actively in preserving cultural heritage creating a digital public space and allow political and social diversity to manifest itself. Such initiatives as for example  Heritage for Peace, or Medieval Sai Project or Project Mosul, try to create engagement around these monuments using emerging technology.

We as professionals need to participate in such actions and debates to create a public understanding of these threads and evocate action by the international citizen communities. We also need to inform and keep the memory of the monuments and sites lost to war alive.

Join us then in Bergen and discuss issues as the ethical dilemmas archaeologists face.

  1. How can we safeguard and promote Cultural Heritage as professionals caring more about dead heritage and forgotten ruins in the face of the human tragedies that are unfolding in these places?
  2. Can archaeology and archaeologists be a positive force of change?

 

Further Reading: Heritage Convention of Unseco

books: James Cuno, Who owns antiquity.

James Cuno, Whose Culture.

Yiannis Hamilakis, The Nation and its Ruins Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece.

 

 

 

 

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Konferanser UBedu

CYARK 500 summit in Berlin 19 og 20 October for archaeologists.

CyArk was founded in 2003 to ensure heritage sites are available to future generations, while making them uniquely accessible today. CyArk operates internationally as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of using new technologies to create a free, 3D online library of the world’s cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters, destroyed by human aggression or ravaged by the passage of time. CyArk uses cutting edge technology to capture detailed 3D representations of world’s significant cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters, destroyed by human aggression or ravaged by the passage of time. Mer her

 

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Arkeolog, sosialantropologi

Nye bøker i museumsvitenskap

Gunnerusbiblioteket har kjøpt inn en ny bokserie i museumsvitenskap. Serien heter «The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, og har følgende bind: 1: Museum Theory, 2: Museum Practice, 3: Museum Media og 4: Museum Transformations.  Du finner mer informasjon om serien i Oria.

museumsbok

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Arkeolog, sosialantropologi

oria.no – biblioteket i ett søk

Universitetsbiblioteket har gått over til et nytt system for søk og bestilling av bøker, m.m. Det nye systemet heter Oria og du finner det ved å skrive oria.no eller gå inn på unversitetsbibliotekets hovedside.

Logg deg på for å bestille og fornye lån

Oria erstatter BIBSYS ASK frå 15. november 2015

www.oria.no

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Arkeolog, sosialantropologi

Pensumlitteraturen for arkeologi flytter

Pensumbøkene for arkeologi skal ikke lenger stå i en egen pensumhylle, men er i ferd med å flyttes sammen med de øvrige bøkene du ser når du kommer inn i biblioteket. Spør bibliotekaren dersom du ikke finner boka eller tidsskriftet du ønsker.

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