Alan Liu

Citation: “Imagining the New Media Encounter.” A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. 3-25

• Full text also available online.

“Knowledge 2.0: The Transliteracies Project and Social Computing.” University of California, Irvine. 19 November 2007.

• Detailed report of talk by Liz Losh, Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at UC Irvine
• More photos of Peter Krapp, Robert Nideffer, Game Culture Technology Lab, etc.

“Digital Humanities and Academic Change.” Co-speaker with Lyn Hejinian, State of the Profession Colloquia series. Department of English. University of Colorado, Boulder. 11 October 2007.

• Link Library for Alan’s Presentation
• More photos of Lyn Hejinian, University of Colorado at Boulder English Department, and Boulder

“Knowledge and Web 2.0: The Transliteracies Project and Social Computing.” Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Texas A & M University. 4 October 2007.

• More photos of Texas A&M campus, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, English Department, etc.

“Digital Humanities and Academic Change.” University of Auckland. 31 August 2007.

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• More photos of Auckland/U. Auckland

“Digital Humanities and Academic Change.” Victoria University, Wellington. 30 August 2007.

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Presentation at discussion meeting to exchange ideas on the role of the humanities in information-technology development strategy with representatives of the National Library of New Zealand, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, and Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand( REANNZ). National Library of New Zealand, Wellington. 29 August 2007.

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“Digital Humanities and Academic Change.” Seminar on recent trends in research in the humanities and arts; with co-discussant Julie Ellison. Victoria University, Wellington. 29 August 2007.

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• More photos

“Beyond ‘Good Enough’ Knowledge: The Humanities and Public Knowledge in the Age of Web 2.0.” Keynote for the Te Whāinga Aronui — The Council for the Humanities’ Transformations Congress. Victoria University, Wellington. 28 August 2007.

• More photos of Transformations Congress and Wellington

Sterling Publishing, 2003, 48 pp., 35 illustrations, ISBN-10: 0806982772, ISBN-13: 978-0806982779

Introduction

I. Nature

• “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
• “To a Butterfly”
• “Inscriptions Supposed to be Found in and near a Hermit’s Cell, 1818: III”
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

II. Children & Young People

• “The Reverie of Poor People”
• “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
• “Lucy Gray: or, Solitude”
• “The Solitary Reaper”
• “Alice Fell: or, Poverty”

III. The Present and the Past

• “The Two April Mornings”
• “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
• “It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free”
• “The White Doe of Rylstone (Excerpt)”
• “Surprised by Joy”

IV. Scenes from The Prelude

• The Stolen Boat
• The Boy of Winander
• Climbing Mt. Snowdon

V. Growing Up

• From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”

Citation: “Higher Education and Online Lifelong Learning: Five Theses.” Academy Exchange, Issue 6 (Summer 2007): 34-35.

“Knowledge 2.0? — The University and Web 2.0.” “Renewals” Conference. English Subject Centre. Royal Holloway, University of London. 6 July 2007.

• Conference site.
• Video of talk (54 min.)
• Conference blog report on the talk.
• Alan’s photos.

“Overview of University of California Transliteracies Project.” Distinguished Seminar at the Institute of Creative Technologies. De Montfort University. Leicester, UK. 3 July 2007.

• IOCT Publicity Announcement.
• Report and pics of the talk from Jess Laccetti’s blog.
• Flickr photos of visit to De Montfort U.

“Network Knowledge: Policing Web 2.0.” New Network Theory International Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 28 June 2007.

• Conference site.
• Conference blog report on the talk.
• Alan’s photos | Other conference photos.
• Stray impressions of Amsterdam.

Nicole King. “Meaningful Contexts: An Interview with Alan Liu.” English Subject Centre Newsletter, 12 (April 2007): 6-9.

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“Imagining the New Media Encounter.” Keynote lecture for “Interfaces and Visualizations: A State-of-the-Art Conference on the Humanities in Post-human Times” and Center for Advanced Study’s MillerComm Lecture Series. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 20 April 2007.

* Publicity flyer for lecture.
* Video of talk (1 hr 22 min.; RealVideo)
* Audio only (1 hr 22 min.; RealAudio)

Citation: “The Humanities: A Technical Profession.” Andrew Delbanco, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Alan Liu, and Catharine R. Stimpson, The Idea and Ideals of the University. ACLS Occasional Paper No. 63, 2007.

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[Note: This paper was first presented as a talk at the Annual Meeting of the ACLS, 8 May 2004, then revised slightly for publication in 2007 in the ACLS Occasional Papers online series. Though this revision stays close to the talk, it adopts some of the changes made for the first published essay version of the paper: the 2005 article (also titled “The Humanities: A Technical Profession”) in Teaching, Technology, Textuality: Approaches to New Media, ed. Michael Hanrahan and Deborah Madsen (Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 11-26.]

(For an excerpt, see the entry for the above mentioned, closely similar, 2005 article.)

Course site: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/curriculum/courses/overview.asp?CourseID=295

Course description: This introductory lecture course studies contemporary information culture from the viewpoint of the humanities. What is information, and why is it so important that it not only affects our economy, politics, and society but also our culture (the culture of “cool,” it has been called) and our arts (the “new media” literatures, arts, music, and games). The course brings writings about information society together with works of new-media literature and art to study the following aspects of information: information as media, communication, and “new media”; information as work and power; and information as identity (see the Schedule page for details). Required readings are in print (e.g., Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, William Gibson’s novel, Neuromancer), on the Web, and on CD-ROM (M. D. Coverley’s hypertext novel, Califia).

Assignments include some Web-authoring at the beginner’s level. No pre-existing technical skills are needed, but the ability to access the Web is necessary to do the online readings.

This course counts toward the English Dept’s specialization in Literature and the Culture of Information.

Course site: http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/curriculum/courses/overview.asp?CourseID=290

Course Description: This course consists of two parts:

I. Romantic Landscape (7 weeks) This part of the course attends to the specificity of Romantic landscape during the so-called British “long 18th century” or (in art history) “great century”–i.e., to the unique contribution of Romanticism to an era when in great part landscape was art and art was landscape. Rivaled perhaps only by the novel, with which it was on intimate terms, landscape was the epic of the times. It was the familiar of that other great Romantic epic form: autobiography. This part of the course concentrates on the writings of the Wordsworth circle and the paintings and watercolors of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. These materials are developed against a backdrop that includes 18th-century writers and painters, the aesthetic theories of the picturesque and sublime, and the history and theory of “descriptive” genres (including georgic and locodescription).

II. New Forms of Landscape (3 weeks) Whether developed in conceptual, metaphorical, or virtual form, navigable space–and often specifically landscape–is important to the contemporary artistic imagination. The course will conclude by making the transition through late-nineteenth-century landscape photography (Carlton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge) to modern and contemporary forms of landscape imagination, including “land art” and new-media art. Materials include: the work of Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Charlotte Davies, John Klima, and Sue Thomas as well as such forms as computer games and satellite imagery. The wager of the course is that we can learn something about the use of landscape as a major form of the social imaginary if we juxtapose Romantic poets and artists walking through nature and contemporary poets and artists browsing or navigating the networks.

The course is supported by an Online Image Gallery (login required).

“The Agrippa Process: ‘Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)’ in the Age of Web 2.0.” Conference on “The Extreme Contemporary.” Center for the Study of the Novel. Stanford University. 12 January 2007.

• Conference publicity announcement.
• Draft of paper — for conference respondents only (version 1.1d, posted Jan. 10, 2007; only very minor fixes in this latest version) (140 Kb; Adobe .pdf format) (requires login): Liu.pdf
• Slideshow accompanying the paper — for conference respondents only (6.26 Mb; PowerPoint .ppt format) (requires login): Liu-slides.ppt
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