Knowledge Futures Spring 2010 Forum
Discontinuities, Disruptions and Possibilities
Monday, April 26, 2010
Room 130E (Auditorium)
Emory University – Goizueta Business School
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Description of the Spring 2010 Forum:
"Discontinuities, Disruptions, and Possibilities" was part of Knowledge Futures, an ongoing series sponsored by The Halle Institute. The main topics at this year's conference were knowledge trends in academia and digital humanities research. The conference brought together interdisciplinary scholars from around the world to discuss transformations and emerging practices in research and scholarship, media practices, and emerging forms of collaboration and communication. The 21st century brings extraordinary discontinuities and new possibilities in challenging the traditional venues of knowledge creation, capture, morphology, and distribution – many that have little changed in centuries. The April 26, 2010 event was sponsored by The Halle Institute, the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Goizueta Business School, Emory's Office of the Provost, Laney Graduate School, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Mellon Foundation, and other external sponsors.
Significant challenges - and even greater opportunities - remain in the exercise of new and emerging digital capabilities. These issues are at the intersection of the interests of all academic and social communities. The issues strike at the essence of epistemology, knowledge management, education, and learning. They challenge science, education, social institutions, and the academy itself.
Schedule:
All Sessions in the Auditorium of the Goizueta Business School (E130)
Morning:
THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH - DISRUPTIONS AND DISCONTINUITIES
LUNCH BREAK
Afternoon:
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP: TRANSFORMATIONS IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
| 1:00p.m. - 2:15p.m. | Changing Centers of Digital Scholarship: Engaging Students and Faculty |
| 2:30p.m. - 3:45p.m. | Training Humanists in the Digital Age |
| 4:00p.m. - 5:15p.m. | Changes in the Emory Academy: Shaping Digital Citizenship |
Panels:
The Future of the University and Research - Disruptions and Discontinuities
This portion of the symposium brought together a diverse group of thought leaders (Emory, Georgia Tech, and national organizations) raising perspectives on potentially radical changes in teaching, learning, education, and research – challenging university directions and research practice.
8:10a.m. - 8:30a.m.
"The Facebook Textbook: Ideas for Disrupting the Future of Digital Education" - introduction by Peter Hopkins
Co-Founder, and President of Big Think
PANELS:
8:30a.m. - 10:00a.m.
Rebooting the University - Disruptions in Models of Learning and Open Forums (panel description)
Benn Konsynski (Moderator) George S Craft Professor, Goizueta Business School, Emory University.
➢ Peter Hopkins, Co-Founder, and President of Big Think
➢ Steve Everett, Professor of Music and teaches composition, computer music, and directs the Music-Audio Research Center at Emory University
➢ Ashwin Ram, Associate Professor in the Interactive and Intelligent Computing division of the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology
➢ Vivek Wadhwa, Senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University
10:15a.m. – 11:45a.m.
Technology and Changes to Expect in the Academy - Research and Scholarship Publication, etc. (panel description)
Lisa Macklin (Moderator) Director, Intellectual Property, Emory University Libraries, Woodruff Library
➢ Gregg Gordon, President, Social Science Research Network
➢ Ray Dingledine, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine
➢ Renu Kulkarni, Executive Director, Future Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology
➢ JoAnn Winson, Executive Program Director, IBM Global University Programs
➢ Douglas Seefeldt, Assistant Professor of History and Faculty Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Digital Scholarship: Transformations in Research and Practice
This portion of the symposium brought together researchers, librarians, and technologists to consider the changing landscape of scholarship – both inside and outside of Emory University. Presenters considered the following issues:
- Digital technologies – changing the methods and products of scholarly research.
- New research opportunities offered by databases, search engines, and digital libraries.
- Academic biases related to the creation, dissemination and use of born-digital scholarship and how they can be addressed.
- New roles that research libraries, digital scholarship centers, and university departments play in training the next generation of scholars and citizens.
PANELS:
1:00p.m. – 2:15p.m.
Changing Centers of Digital Scholarship: Engaging Students and Faculty (panel description)
Joan Smith (Moderator) Chief Technology Strategist, Emory University Libraries and Adjunct Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
➢ Richard Furuta, Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Director, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University
➢ Geneva Henry, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, Rice University
➢ Stephen Ramsay, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska
➢ Jeffrey Schnapp, Director of the Stanford Humanities Lab and Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University
2:30p.m. - 3:45p.m.
Training Humanists in the Digital Age (panel description)
Sarah Toton (Moderator) Digital Scholarship Strategist, Emory University Libraries, and PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University.
➢ Michael Page, Geospatial Services Coordinator, Emory University Libraries
➢ Allen Tullos, Associate Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Digital Scholarship and Media Studies Certificate, Emory University
➢ Naomi Nelson, Interim Director for the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) and Co-Director of the Digital Scholarship and Media Studies Graduate Certificate Program, Emory University
➢ Ted Friedman, Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Georgia State University
➢ Amanda French, Regional THATCamp Coordinator, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
4:00p.m. – 5:15p.m.
Changes in the Emory Academy: Shaping Digital Citizenship (panel description)
Laurie Patton (Moderator) Charles Howard Candler Professor, Department of Religion, and Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory University
➢ Debra Spitulnik, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
➢ Connie Moon Sehat, Senior Research Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Integration Advisor, Zotero.org
➢ Alan Cattier, Director of Academic Technologies, Emory University
➢ Wayne Morse, Director of Emory University’s Center for Interactive Teaching
➢ Donna Troka, Assistant Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Emory University