[iDiversity] Simpson Ctr. Lectures: Multimodal Scholarship; Scholarly Comm. in Digital Age; Future of Food; Gaming/Gold Farming;

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Colloquium


Composing, Reviewing, and Preserving Multimodal Scholarship
[When:] Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - 9:00 AM [Where:]  Allen Library South Research Commons, Red A

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In this Information School colloquium, Jentery Sayers (English, University of Victoria) examines multimodal scholarly communication in digital humanities research. Sayers will present on common platforms and tools, such as the authoring and publishing tool Scalar, to open up questions about preservation, materiality, and material culture of digital objects, such as workflow, metadata, emulation, and interoperability.












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Lecture


Scholarly Communication in a Digital Age
[When:] Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - 2:30 PM [Where:]  Mary Gates 420

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Jentery Sayers (English, University of Victoria) presents on his hybrid print-digital book project to explore questions about "the status of the book" - specifically, where and how digital scholarly communication is published, how it is accessed and interpreted, who is involved in its development and when, and where all of the components are stored. Sayers argues that changes to the book necessarily imply changes to scholarly labor and inquiry, which foster new speculations about (rather than mere re-presentations of) the stuff and conditions of history and culture.


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Film Screening and Discussion


Rethinking Citizenship, Democracy and Activism: Local-Global Entanglements in The Future of Food
[When:] Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - 2:30 PM [Where:]  Allen Library Auditorium [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/calendar/images/details.gif]  Details<http://depts.washington.edu/clowes1/>

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Deborah Koons Garcia's documentary, The Future of Food, discusses the complex technology and key regulatory, legal, ethical, environmental and consumer issues surrounding the changes happening in the food system today: genetically engineered foods, patenting, and the corporatization of food. After the film, Heather Day (Community Alliance for Global Justice) will hold a panel discussion. Sponsored by the Clowes Center for the Study of Conflict and Dialogue and Comparative History of Ideas.


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Graduate Interest Group


Keywords for Video Game Studies on "Gold Farming"
[When:] Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - 3:30 PM [Where:]  Communication 202 [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/calendar/images/details.gif]  Details<https://depts.washington.edu/critgame/wordpress/keywords/>

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Keywords for Video Game Studies<https://depts.washington.edu/critgame/wordpress/keywords/> engages questions about in-game and real world money, resources, labor, commodification, race, racism, and exploitation through the term "gold farming." Gold farming is the accrual of in-game wealth, items, even prestige to be sold or traded for real-world resources. From selling and buying gold pieces to epic swords to twinked out characters, gold farming reveals the intermingling, interconnection, and interruption of game world and real world, what Constance Steinkuehler calls "the mangle of play." In conjunction with the opening of the "Asian American Arcade" exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle's International District.


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