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Conference Schedule
The conference is divided into two sections:
(you may register for either section individually, or attend both)
- a morning plenary session featuring presentations by national experts in scholarly publication and communication
- afternoon working sessions led by University of Minnesota faculty from a variety of disciplines. Registrants will create action plans to shape campus policies and raise awareness of scholarly communication issues. Lunch is included.
Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. Click here to register
8:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. Morning Plenary Session
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
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- 8:00 Continental Breakfast
- 8:30 Welcome
- 8:45 Paul Courant, "Conservative Revolutionaries and Revolutionary Conservators: Universities and Scholarship in the Digital Age"
Scholarship is undefined without publication (and the associated curation, archiving, and retrieval of published works). The technologies, and perforce, the economics of publication are going through enormous changes. At the same time, there is tremendous political pressure to treat intellectual property in ways that are inimical to the norms and practices of scholarship. I will claim, among other things, that universities must change the ways in which they compete and cooperate in order to preserve and strengthen their effectiveness, both in the academy and more broadly. Public universities may have a special standing and a special role.
- 9:30 Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Critical Information Studies: A Manifesto”
This presentation will outline an emerging multidisciplinary field of scholarship that has a clear link to activism and an important voice within the academy. “Critical Information Studies” brings together economists, cultural scholars, social scientists, natural scientists, librarians, lawyers, and many other groups from around the academy to assess the effects of the steady privatization of information and culture. It hopes to alert academic leaders and the public about the dangers of the centralized control of information in a dynamic economy and a democratic culture.
- 10:15 Break
- 10:45 Edward Ayers, "Scholarship in the Digital Age"
The last ten years have seen a profound transformation in the organization of libraries and archives: millions of people now see millions of documents and commentary they could not see before. But the form of interpetative scholarship itself has barely changed to take advantage of the new capacities of the digital environment. Though scholars have resisted innovation in the form and content of their published work, scholarship will certainly reinvent itself in the digital world. This talk will try to imagine what some forms of that scholarship might look like.
- 11:30 Moderated panel discussion.
1:00 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. Afternoon Working Sessions: Help the University Shape the Future
Coffman Memorial Union - Third Floor Meeting Rooms
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Discussions led by University of Minnesota faculty. Registrants will identify key actions to help shape campus policies and raise awareness of publishing and scholarly communication issues. Lunch is included.
Discussion group topics include:
- Institutional Policy and Investments.
- Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues.
- New Publishing Conventions and Faculty Reward Structures.
Facilitators include:
- Gary Balas, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- Stephen Ekker, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota
- Laura Gurak, Professor and Department Head, Department of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
- John Logie, Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota
- Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor, University of Minnesota
- Ruth Okediji, William L. Prosser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
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