[Carolinas_asist] Fwd: The Virtual Nineteenth Century, March 4-5, at the National Humanities Center

[Mike Brown]

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From: Maxwell Felsher <mfelsher at email.unc.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Subject: [sils-students] Fwd: The Virtual Nineteenth Century, March 4-5, at
the National Humanities Center
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 For those with an interest in historical connections to ideas of
"virtuality," this is in RTP and it looks like grad students can get in for
free.


   Please circulate widely.  Apologies for cross-postings.

The National Humanities Center <http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/> is
pleased to present a symposium on
*
*The Virtual Nineteenth
Century<http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/news/2011springevents.htm#blackatlantic>

*March 4 - 5, 2011**
*
National Humanities Center
7 T.W. Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

     The term "virtuality" has taken on new importance in recent decades, as
theorists of new media attempt to explain the changes in social interactions
and in mental states that our current highly "wired" world has made
possible. The recent communications revolution seems so complete a break
with the past that researchers have begun to speak of a new generation gap,
speculating that a child born today has little in common with one born even
at the end of the last millennium. But how revolutionary is this new
revolution? To what extent do its very premises harken back to an earlier
set of assumptions about the nature of modernity? This symposium proposes to
explore the ways in which new thinking about communications, art, and
technology developed in the nineteenth century helped put in place a concept
of the "virtual" that forecasts many of our contemporary concerns.

Participating scholars:

   - Katherine Biers, Columbia University
   - Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
   - Nicholas Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth University
   - Lisa Gitelman, New York University
   - Catriona MacLeod, University of Pennsylvania
   - Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
   - Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
   - John Plotz, Brandeis University
   - Leah Price, Harvard University
   - Maurice Samuels, Yale University
   - Pamela Thurschwell, University of Sussex
   - Carolyn Williams, Rutgers University

*$35 registration<http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/news/2011springevents.htm#blackatlantic>
 fee includes all sessions and meals.
Graduate students with a valid ID may register for free by contacting Martha
Johnson at 919-549-0661 x110*
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