(Apologies for cross-postings) ‘Networks and Enclaves: Open Access and Work in the 21st Century University’, University of California, Irvine, February 11-12, 2010. 1030 Humanities Gateway Presented by the UCI Humanities Center in Conjunction with HumaniTech, with support from the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Coventry University, UK. This conference focuses on the ways digital media, and the emergence of online networks, communities and Web 2.0, continue to disrupt and reform traditional ideas about community, the public sphere, and professional and institutional standards. It brings together diverse scholars to look at the historical and theoretical grounds upon which access has become one of the most salient issues of our day. The conference includes some of the most important historians, thinkers and theorists of Networks. They will examine the new models for work in the 21st Century University offered by digital media and open access. Free & open to the public No RSVP necessary hctr@uci.edu www.humanities.uci.edu/collective Titles, bios, & more at: http://blogs.uci.edu/networksenclaves Schedule Thursday 2/11/10 9:30 | Breakfast 9:45 – 10:00 | Welcoming Remarks 10:00 – 11:30 | Work/Network Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University Evan Watkins, UC Davis Moderator: Catherine Liu 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch Break 12:30 – 2:30 | Networks & Enclaves: Intellectual Histories and Critical Theories Francois Cusset, CNRS and l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris Mark Poster, UCI Moderator: Catherine Benamou 2:30 – 2:45 | Coffee Break 2:45 – 4:45 | Politics and Aesthetics: Old and New Media Lucas Hilderbrand, UCI Liz Losh, UCI Tim Murray, Cornell University Moderator: Eyal Amiran 5:00 | Reception Friday 2/12/2010 8:30 | Continental Breakfast 9:00 – 11:00 |Knowledge Networks: Laws of Access Gary Hall, Coventry University, Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation Tony Reese, UCI Law School Lynne Withey, UC Press, Moderator: Barbara Cohen 11:00 – 12:00 Roundtable Discussion -- Gary Hall Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info