As part of the University's partnership with Cornell and the University of Rochester to create a
"humanities corridor" in Central New York, funded by the Mellon Foundation, the college has
access to funds to send graduate students to the upcoming interdisciplinary conference at
Rochester next weekend, paying for lodging, travel, and sponsoring a reception Friday night to
allow Syracuse and Rochester grads to begin building connections between departments. If you
are interested in attending, please let me know via email: mddwyer (at) syr.edu.
I'm attaching the conference announcement beneath.
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The English Department and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester present
An Interdisciplinary Conference, held as part of The Humanities Project:
The Archive of the Future / The Future of the Archive
The conference will take place on Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, 2007 and will include a roundtable discussion
on the future of the archive (with an opening address by Johnathan Massey, Assistant Professor of Architecture at
Syracuse University, along with a roundtable made up of faculty, librarians and graduate students) and an
opening reception on Friday, which will showcase Marsha Kinder's digital and interactive *Labyrinth Project*.
Saturday's events include a keynote address by Marsha Kinder, Professor of Cinema, Comparative Literature
and Spanish, at the University of Southern California, as well as 12 presentations by an interdisciplinary and
international group of graduate students on topics as diverse as Popular Culture and New Media,
Politics and Society, Visual Culture, and History, Revision and Memory.
Please see
http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/?archive
http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/?archive&conference
for more information (including specific times and paper topics) and to REGISTER.
This conference, including Friday's reception and Saturday's lunch, is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. We do
ask, however, that you register using the form on the website so we have a sense of how many people to expect.
Please free to contact the organizers at futureofthearchive@gmail.com with any questions or comments.
