❦ English Department Research Slam

Literature.Culture.Media Center Research Slam

Down from the lectern and into the crowd!

Friday, May 21

1 pm – 530 pm

University of California, Santa Barbara

Department of English

South Hall (various locations)

Please send project description, technical requirements (if any), and a short biography by April 2 to researchslam@gmail.com.

Have you done recent work that you're particularly proud of? Are you working on a project and would like to get feedback from your peers and faculty? Interested in seeing the diversity of scholarship occurring on campus? UCSB’s Literature.Culture.Media Center is devoted to investigating and highlighting innovative ways of combining traditional humanities research with concepts and methodologies related to information media and technology. In this tradition, we are hosting the third annual Research Slam to showcase the unique work done by scholars across campus.

The goal of the Research Slam is to combine the best features of traditional academic humanities venues like lectures and roundtables and combine them with the free-flowing, hyperattentive and participatory focus of the poster session and poetry slam. The format includes a series of parallel presentations, followed by a plenary discussion at the end of the afternoon. Glow necklaces will be provided!

A Research Slam is:

• Non-linear intellectual encounters

• Smaller, more personalized discussions, followed by a large group session

• Multi-media, multi-modal, and/or multi-temporal

• Inclusive of faculty and students

• Performative, interactive, playful

• Interested in new paradigms of sharing scholarly work

A Research Slam is not:

• Divided and structured hierarchically

• Quiet or stationary

• Lecture-based

• Traditional or conventional

• Boring

The Literature.Culture.Media Center is now soliciting multimedia projects, research posters, and other creative or scholarly works taking advantage of the intersections between academics, information and technology to showcase at the Slam, regardless of department, class level, or period of focus of the contributor. We invite faculty, graduate students, or undergraduates to apply! If you think your project fits the structure of the event, we'd love to have you!

Potential Critical Nodes:

archives

history

reading/audience practices

educational technology

media arts

popular culture

activism

GIS/mapping/locative media

communication studies

(Please note that the Research Slam does not endorse exhaustive lists. Please expand at your will.)