The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Mike Godwin, General Counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, will give a lecture entitled "After the Revolution," on Monday, 28 January 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.
In his lecture, Godwin will discuss the impact of the digital revolution on the humanities. Godwin is an attorney who focuses on legal issues involving new media, speech, and intellectual property law and is the author of Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Cyber Age (1998). He has written for American Lawyer Media and The American Lawyer and has served as general counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as his current position with the Wikimedia Foundation.
The lecture series continues on 1 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill on “The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library.”
For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mike Godwin of the Wikimedia Foundation to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Lecture
Dr. Jan Boxill to Speak in Glasscock Center Inaugural
Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Lecture
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture to inaugurate the Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowment for Ethics. Dr. Jan Boxill of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill will present a lecture entitled “Sport as a Public Forum for Ethics” at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 October, 2007 in the MSC’s Forsyth Center Gallery.
Dr. Boxill is the director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the University of North Carolina and has published on many aspects of ethics, including feminism and affirmative action, as well as sports. Her publications include Sports Ethics (2003) and Issues in Race and Gender (2000).
The Buttrill Endowment for Ethics will support an annual public lecture and a campus roundtable on a matter of current, general ethical concern, as well as support the exploration of teaching and research on ethics within specific academic disciplines
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/ , visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at 979-845-8328.
