Speaker Series

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InfoStructure Speaker Series

Our 2009-2010 slate of public lectures:

Monday, October 12 2009
Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
"The MP3 as Standard Object: Infrastructure, Software and the Politics of Media Culture"
Public Lecture: 12:30pm Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02 Auditorium
Reading Group Discussion: 1:45pm in 301 CSL

Monday, November 9 2009
Mark Deuze, Indiana University
"Media Life: The Experience of Love, Sex & Death in Digital Culture"
Public Lecture: 12:30pm Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02 Auditorium
Reading Group Discussion: 1:45pm in 301 CSL

Tuesday, December 1 2009
Anita Say Chan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Enterprise Village: Entrepreneurial Artisans, Intellectual Property, and the Optimizing of Native Culture"
Brown Bag Discussion: 12:30pm Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room 301.

Monday, February 1 2010
Peter Mario Asaro, New School University, New York
"Robots, Video Game Interfaces, and the InfoStructures of Remote Controlled Warfare"
Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02 Auditorium
Reading Group discussion to follow

Thursday, February 25 2010
Lisa Parks, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
"Horses, Cell Phones and Masks: Rethinking Infrastructure through Mobile Telephony in Mongolia"
Public Lecture: 6:30pm Coordinated Science Laboratory, Room B02 Auditorium
Reading Group discussion to follow

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Julian Dibbell, George A. Miller Visiting Professor, College of Media and Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Ludocapitalism: Real Money from Play Economies, and How I Made It"
Public Lecture: 4:00 pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana
Reading Group discussion to follow
(This is the first of two lectures by Dibbell)

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Julian Dibbell, George A. Miller Visiting Professor, College of Media and Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
"Swedish Pirates, Anonymous Trolls, and the Outlines of an Internet Politics"
Public Lecture: 4:30 pm
Coordinated Science Laboratory, B02, 1308 W. Main St. Urbana, IL
(This is the second of two lectures by Dibbell)

 

 

 

Related events on the UIUC campus

Center for Advanced Study Speaker Series

Tuesday, October 06 2009
Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Confronting Human-Driven Climate Change in the United States: The Need for New Energy Policy"
Public Lecture: 7:30pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Thursday, October 08 2009
Simon A. Cole, Cornell University: "Forensic Reality? CSI, Media, and Public Technoscience"
Public Lecture: 4:00 pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Thursday, October 22 2009
Carol Dweck, Stanford University:"Mindsets: Understanding Motivation and Achievement"
Public Lecture: 7:30pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Monday, October 26 2009
Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research: "Quantum Leap from Micro- to Nanoelectronics"
Public Lecture: 4:00 pm Auditorium, Beckman Institute

Thursday, October 29 2009
Kenneth Crews: "Who Owns Your Scholarship: Copyright, Publication Agreements, and Good Practice"
Public Lecture: 4:00pm Alice Campbell Alumni Center

Monday, November 16 2009
George A. Miller, University of Illinois and Distinguished Research Professor of Music Music, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:"Telematic Venues and the Expansion of Performance Possibilities"
Public Lecture: 4:00 pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Human-Computer Interaction Colloquium

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Prof. Scott Hudson: Conservation of Human Attention as an Approach to New HCI Research
10-11:30am
3401 Siebel

Further details about the HCI speaker series is listed at Human-Computer Interaction Colloquium.

Information in Society Speaker Series

Monday, October 5 2009
Allan Collins: "Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology"
Lunch Discussion: 12:00 PM - 1:00 GSLIS Room 242
Office Hours: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM GSLIS Room 242
Public Lecture: 4:00 PM - 05:30 PM GSLIS Room 126

Monday, October 12 2009
Matthew Hindman: "The Structure of ''Churn'': How Web Site Traffic Changes Over Time, and Why It Matters"
Lunch Discussion: 12:00 PM - 1:00 GSLIS Room 242
Office Hours: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM GSLIS Room 242
Public Lecture: 4:00 PM - 05:30 PM GSLIS Room 126

Monday, December 7 2009
Janice Pilch: "The Crisis in Copyright: Libraries and the Public Interest in the Development of International Copyright Law and Policy"
Lunch Discussion: 12:00 PM - 1:00 GSLIS Room 242
Office Hours: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM GSLIS Room 242
Public Lecture: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM GSLIS Room 126

Designmatters3 Lecture Series

Designmatters3 is a lecture series to promote design thinking that integrates design, business and technology in the creation of innovative products, services and experiences.

Monday, September 14 2009
Dan Roam, author: "The back of the napkin – solving problems with pictures"
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

Monday, September 28 2009
Bill Buxton, Microsoft: "Looking back ten years into the future"
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

Tuesday, September 29 2009
Michael Johnson, PIXAR: "Making movies is hard fun – building tools for telling stories"
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

Monday, October 05 2009
Jan Chipchase, Nokia: "Ethnographic research for design"
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

Tuesday, October 13 2009
Blaine Brownell, new materials specialist
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

Monday, November 2 2009
Mick McManus, MAYA Design, Pittsburgh, Design thinking specialists: "Climbing the Next Mountain: Human-Centered Design in the Age of Pervasive Computing"
Deloitte Auditorium, School of Business
5:30pm

Tuesday, November 10 2009
Denise DeLuca, Bio-mimicry
62 Krannert Art Museum, lower level, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign
5:30pm

Wednesday, November 18 2009
Doris Wells Papanek: "Tailored learning solutions, Design thinking workshop"
Wohlers 141, 1206 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
5:30pm

School of Art & Design Visiting Artist Series

Monday, November 16 2009
Public lecture by Matt Coolidge of the Center for Land Use Interpretation
180 Bevier Hall (905 S. Goodwin Ave.)
5:30pm

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface. The Center embraces a multidisciplinary approach to fulfilling the stated mission, employing conventional research and information processing methodology as well as nontraditional interpretive tools.