Gary Marchionini to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series on Digital Humanities. Gary Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, will give a lecture entitled "The Open Video Digital Library: The Challenge of Transition from Test Bed to Sustainable Library," on Friday, 1 February 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in the Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Marchionini will discuss the challenges posed by transitioning contemporary library resources to new media technologies. Marchionini, former director of the Perseus Project (a digital library devoted to classical culture), now directs the Interaction Design Laboratory at Chapel Hill, is editor-in-chief of the ACM Transaction on Information Systems, and is the author of Information Seeking in Electronic Environments (1997).

The lecture series continues on 27 February at 4:00 p.m. in the same location with a talk by Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria on “Imagining the Electronic Book.”

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.

“Ethics, Money, and Intercollegiate Sport” Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Roundtable

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its inaugural roundtable discussion supported by the Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowment for Ethics. On Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. members of the Texas A&M University community will discuss “Ethics, Money, and Intercollegiate Sport” in the Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building.

The roundtable will include Jamila Ganter, Student Assistant Coach for the Women’s Basketball Team; Arnold LeUnes, Department of Psychology; Justin Moore, Special Assistant to the Senior Associate Athletics Director; Steven B. Moore, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President for Communications; Emily Sparvero, Department of Health and Kinesiology; and John Thornton, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Development.

The Buttrill Endowment for Ethics sponsors an annual public lecture and a campus roundtable on a matter of current, general ethical concern; it also supports 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.

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Wedesday, 23 January**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Faculty Colloquium: Linda Radzik (Philosophy), presenting “Changing the Past,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.


**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http:// glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

Mike Godwin of the Wikimedia Foundation to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

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.

Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

FYI due April 2. For more information visit
(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html).

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program. This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities. By awarding relatively low-dollar grants during the planning stages, the goal is to identify projects that are particularly innovative and have the potential to make a positive impact on the humanities. In an effort to foster new collaborations and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning, and research, this program is co-sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). NEH and IMLS encourage library and museum officials as well as scholars, scientists, educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations to apply for these grants and to collaborate when appropriate.

Truman Library Grants

Research Grant Application Form and more information


Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only.

Eligibility: Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are particularly encouraged to apply, but applications from others engaged in advanced research will also be considered. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be
considered. An individual may receive no more than two Research Grants in a five year period.

Asian Cultural Council Grants

For more information visit
(http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/programs.html).

The Asian Cultural Council supports cultural exchange between Asia and the United States in the performing and visual arts, primarily by providing individual fellowship grants to artists, scholars, students,and specialists from Asia for study, research, travel and creative work in the United States. Grants are also awarded to Americans engaged in similar activities in Asia and to arts organizations and educational institutions for specific projects of particular significance to Asian-American cultural exchange. In addition, the Council awards a small number of grants in support of regional exchange activities within Asia.

The ACC's geographic purview covers an extensive area of Asia ranging from Afghanistan to Japan. Because the Council's grant funds are limited, however, priority consideration is currently being given to applicants from that area of Southeast and East Asia extending eastward from Burma through Japan.

Grants are made in the following fields: archaeology, architecture (design, theory, and history), art history, art and architectural conservation, crafts, dance, film, museology, music, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, theater, and video.