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Lightning Talk on Transgressive Research Methods

Steve Anderson

Posted on October 22, 2013

UCR’s Critical Digital Humanities and Medical Narratives Mellon research groups are hosting a Lunchtime Lightning Talks Event, Transgressive Research Methods: What Happens when the Humanities Engages with Science? on October 24, 2013 from 11:30 – 1:00 in HMNSS 2212. This event is open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates, and lunch will be provided. This Discussion-Based event will take the form of 5-7 minute “Lightning” talks, presented by faculty and graduate students. These quick interventions will focus on the ethics, values, limitations, and possibilities of interdisciplinary research methods, with the goal of generating inquiry, reflection, and discussion among the participants around the following, and other related, issues: What features characterize “truly interdisciplinary” research? How does the blend of methodologies, topics, and questions from across humanistic…

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Media in the Archives: Libraries, Popular Culture, and the Digital

Steve Anderson

Posted on October 12, 2013

Please join the panel discussion this Wednesday, October 16, 3:30-5pm (History Library) on “Media in the Archives: Libraries, Popular Culture, and the Digital,” moderated by UCR History Professor Randy Head and featuring Dr. Dan Lewis (head of manuscripts and Dibner Senior Curator of Science, Medicine, and Technology), Jessica Taylor (NBC Universal Archives and Collections), and Dr. Brian Geiger (UCR Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research). Note that all of these organizations have a track record of hiring UCR grad students and have paid internships.  

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Illuminated Palaces exhibit at The Huntington

Steve Anderson

Posted on September 6, 2013

An exhibit of extra-illustrated books is currently running at The Huntington. I visited the exhibit, “Illuminated Palaces,” last week and it was wonderful as well as a little frightening. The process these books have undergone is called “grangerizing,” a method through which prints and other desirable portions of books are extracted and pasted into other books for collection. The frightening part is that many books were destroyed or at least vandalized, their pages ripped, cut, and torn in order to yield the prints and images so sought after by collectors. Some collectors added prints to extra-illustrate their books, while others added postage stamps, playbills, postcards, or handwritten letters of correspondence. In the end, many of these books resembled something of an academic scrapbook, with…

Categories: Book History, Museum Exhibits

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Ebooks and peer pressure

Steve Anderson

Posted on August 29, 2013

“Electronic Book” via Flickr member Timo Noko (2009)

Now I can read E-book in Café Elité and not look like a geek.

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The age of digital paper

Steve Anderson

Posted on August 28, 2013

Are iPads paper? …the question arose about whether Wendy Davis could read from her iPad during the course of her filibuster and it was determined that, yes, for the purposes of the current legislative process, an iPad counted as paper. (via Michael Widner)

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Mellon Workshop Grant 2013-2014

Steve Anderson

Posted on June 20, 2013

The Material Cultures of the Book Working Group is happy to announce that we have received a UCR Mellon Workshop Grant for the 2013-2014 academic year! The title of the project is, “The Material Cultures of the Book,” and this grant will allow us to conduct workshops with scholars from a variety of fields to discuss the materiality of book history and print culture. The Mellon Workshop Grants are made possible by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, and many thanks go out to all of the group members, both faculty and graduate students, for putting together a great proposal. Stay tuned for upcoming workshops, presentations, and talks beginning this fall.  

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BAM Colloquium this Friday

Steve Anderson

Posted on June 4, 2013

Please join us for the Year-End Colloquium for Graduate Students in “BAM.” Designated Emphasis in Book, Archive, and Manuscript Studies – http://bam.ucr.edu Friday, June 7, 10:00am to Noon English Department Conference Room (HMNSS 2212) Presentations by Steve Anderson, Cori Knight, and Heather Van Mouwerik Display of printshop projects by Rebecca Addicks, Ann Garascia, Cori Knight, Jessica Roberson, and Anne Sullivan This will also be a celebration of the new Mellon Workshop Grant awarded to the Material Cultures of the Book Working Group

Categories: Archives, Book History, Events

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Turn the Source into a Problem

Steve Anderson

Posted on May 20, 2013

In my previous post on the Global Archivalities Research Network, I described the recent virtual conference and the range of topics discussed. The concept of addressing the “social logics” of the archive was compelling, and it helps to reframe the discourse involving archival studies as one of complexity and imagination. Another interesting concept, presented at the virtual conference by Dr. Filippo De Vivo, was “to turn the source into the problem.” By this, De Vivo meant to consider how the abundance and variety of archives across the globe could be a point of convergence rather than a point of apprehension. Instead of being overwhelmed by the immensity of the task, scholars should move even further into the myriad dynamics of archival networks, considering multiple…

Categories: Archives, Book History, Conferences

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The Social Logics of Global Archives

Steve Anderson

Posted on May 19, 2013

On May 7th I attended the first event of the new Global Archivalities Research Network. This was a virtual conference hosted over Adobe Connect, with a viewing location in the UC Riverside History Library. The group is organized by Dr. Randolph Head of University of California, Riverside, Dr. Arndt Brendecke of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Dr. Hilde De Weerdt of Kings College London. The digital aspect of the conference allowed many other scholars from across the globe to join, which added greatly to the international scope and diversity of archives that were discussed. Thanks to the steady hand of fellow UCR graduate student, Heather Van Mouwerik, the technological aspect of the conference went off without a hitch. Van Mouwerik spent many hours in the weeks…

Categories: Archives, Conferences

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CDH event: Animated Music Screening and Talk – May 30th

Steve Anderson

Posted on May 18, 2013

Cindy Keefer, Archivist, Curator & Director . Center for Visual Music Preserving Visual Music : The Archives of the Center for Visual Music THURSDAY . May 30 . 4:30 PM . INTN 1113 . Refreshments served . Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center for Visual Music Los Angeles, will discuss and screen work by pioneers of kinetic art, abstract animation and pre-digital cinema from CVM’s archives. CVM is a Los Angeles archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and abstract media.  CVM preserves and promotes films by Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Charles Dockum, Mary Ellen Bute, Jules Engel, Harry Smith and others, as well as contemporary artists. Keefer will screen work from CVM’s archives by Fischinger and Belson, plus Dockum’s Mobilcolor Projections, Bute’s Abstronics (an early oscilloscope film),…

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