Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites – Symposium Day #2

Please RSVP to join us for either of the Symposium Days.   9:00-9:30 Welcomes and Introductions 9:30-11:30 Panel #4: VR, AR, AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT Phygital Augmentations of History in the Classroom: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge Constantinos Papadopoulos Technology-Enhanced Learning for Local History: Utilizing the Potential of AR and VR to Explore Blacksburg’s Historic...

Advanced Challenges in Theory and Practice in 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites – Discussion Day #2

Please RSVP to Lisa M. Snyder at IDRE to join us for either of the Discussion Days.   9:00-9:15 Welcomes and Introductions 9:15-10:45 TOPIC #5 PROMOTION AND TENURE Invited in-person discussant: Willeke Wendrich, outgoing director of UCLA’s Center for Digital Humanities 10:45-11:00 BREAK 11:00-12:30 TOPIC #6 FUNDING Invited remote discussant: Jennifer Serventi, National Endowment for...

Pop-Up Colloquium

CONCEPT MODELING: Non-representational approaches to visualizing interpretation Professor Johanna Drucker Professor Johanna Drucker will present work-in-progress from the 3DH (3-Dimensional/Digital Humanities) project begun at the University of Hamburg to create "next-generation visualizations for digital humanities." The project focuses on a non-representational, modeling approach to design of a graphical environment for interpretative work. The talk will...

Diversifying the Digital

DEFINITION, COMMONALITIES AND DIVERGENCES: WHAT ARE COMMUNITY ARCHIVES? Friday, October 21st, 2016 8:00am-4:30pm UCLA/UC-Riverside Hosted Community Archives Forum At UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), Room 111 http://maps.ucla.edu/campus This forum will focus on defining community archives, specifically the ways community archives define themselves. Community archives are diverse in several ways, including the...

(Re)Mapping Queer Mobilities

This year’s conference theme, “(Re)mapping Queer Mobilities,” explores and examines the old, new and shifting landscapes of LGBTQ space and movement—leaving home/re-making home, transnational migration, locating and dis-locating queer spaces, and seeking sexual encounters in cyberspace.  As cities across the United States experience demographic and socio-economic shifts, many point to gentrification as the principal threat...

The UCLA Conference on Art, Neuroscience, Psychiatry

  Art and neuroscience provide complementary perspectives on the human experience. While the artist creates works that capture exterior and interior worlds, the neuroscientist elucidates how the brain sees, experiences, and remembers these creations. The intersections of art and neuroscience have the potential to unlock new treatments for mental illness, enhance empathy for the lives...

$100 – $300

Histories of Data and the Database

In the age of internet searches and social media, data has become hot-and not for the first time. An international group of historians will consider the promises, fears, practices, and technologies for recording and transmitting data from the eighteenth century to the present, including their implications for the lives of citizens and subjects. (Note: Conference...

$25.00

Data as Infrastructure: CDS, Astronomy and beyond

Speaker: Dr. Françoise Genova, Astronomer, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg Time:  12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*) Date: Feb 15, 2017 Location:  5628, Math Sciences Building Registration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/data-as-infrastructure#rsvp ‎   Abstract: Science data sharing is currently high in the political agenda, but some disciplines began to share their data long ago....