PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – September 1, 2011 The Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage are excited to announce a Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series for the 2011-2012 academic year.

The purpose of this new series is to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities by revealing the power of new digital approaches to transform traditional scholarship. By bringing some of the most prominent advocates of digital humanities to campus, we hope to inspire Brown scholars and encourage expanded programs focused on digital scholarship at Brown.

Events will kick off at 5:30pm on Monday, October 3, 2011 with the talk “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE, and Network Archaeology” by renowned digital scholar, Alan Liu in the second floor Lownes Room at the John Hay Library, followed by a reception. Liu is Chair and Professor of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an affiliated faculty member of UCSB’s Media Arts & Technology graduate program, and the author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. He founded the NEH funded Teaching with Technology project at UC Santa Barbara, Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information, and the University of California multi-campus, collaborative research group, Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.

The Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series will continue through April 2012. Visit the Library website for updates on speakers, dates and times http://library.brown.edu/.

The John Nicholas Brown Center helps connect academic communities and the broader public through history, art, and culture. We support people and organizations that explore, preserve, and interpret cultural heritage. Our programs explore the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life.

The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.

Contact: Jennifer Braga |  401-863-6913

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