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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
January 4, 2002


        The National Endowment for the Humanities Announces "eHumanities"
            A Lecture Series on Digital Technology and the Humanities

                February 13: James O'Donnell, "After the Internet"
                     February 27: Will Thomas and Ed Ayers,
        "The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form"

                    http://www.neh.gov/news/ehumanities.html 


 From the web site:

How does technology affect traditional humanities disciplines? Some 
scholars and educators argue that in just a few short years, advances 
in information technology and the development of the Internet have 
had a more dramatic affect on the way people read, write, and 
exchange information than any invention since the printing press. 
With the eHumanities lecture series, NEH is bringing leading scholars 
to Washington to discuss the relationship of digital technology and 
the humanities.

All lectures will be held from 12 noon to 1:15 p.m. at NEH, 1100 
Pennsylvania, Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506 in Room M-09.

Attendance is free and open to the public, but advance registration 
is requested.

February 13
After the Internet
JAMES O'DONNELL

The Internet bubble has burst. The Internet is boring. Even The 
Economist is reduced to devoting a special section to the wireless 
Internet in order to gain and hold its readers' attention. This is an 
opportunity for serious thought and action about the integration of 
information technology and information science in the humanistic 
organon. How are we different because we live in this wired world? 
How are we not different? What is reasonable to expect?

James J. O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost 
for Information Systems and Computing at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He has published widely on the cultural history of the 
late antique Mediterranean world and is a recognized innovator in the 
application of networked information technology in higher education. 
In 1990, he co-founded Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second on-line 
scholarly journal in the humanities ever created. In 1994, he taught 
an Internet-based seminar on the work of Augustine of Hippo that 
reached 500 students. He also serves as resident Faculty Master of 
Hill College House at Penn. He is a Trustee of the National 
Humanities Center, has served as a Director and will become 
President-Elect in 2002 of the American Philological Association, and 
served as a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America.



February 27
The Next Generation of Digital Scholarship: An Experiment in Form
WILL THOMAS and ED AYERS

The use of online resources has exploded in recent years. Students 
and scholars routinely turn to the web for primary documents, 
reference works, and the latest reviews. But we have not yet forged a 
new form of scholarly communication and argumentation for the digital 
environment. In this talk, Ayers and Thomas present a prototype of a 
journal article designed to take advantage of the possibilities of 
the web while addressing some of the limitations of that context.

Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital 
History and Research Assistant Professor of History at the University 
of Virginia. He teaches the history of Virginia since 1865 and is the 
author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the 
New South (LSU, 1999). He also served as the co-author and assistant 
producer of The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the 
Civil War, an Emmy-nominated series on the history of Virginia for 
public television.

Edward L. Ayers is the Hugh P. Kelly professor of history at the 
University of Virginia. Ayers has written extensively on Southern 
history and race relations. His books include All Over the Map: 
Rethinking American Regions and The Promise of the New South: Life 
After Reconstruction. He is the founder of the Valley of the Shadow 
project at the University of Virginia. Ayers has received a number of 
grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright. Ayers received a 
bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee, and his master's 
and doctorate from Yale University.

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