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March 10, 2008

Dean Spade, UCLA Williams Institute Law."Documenting Gender."

Taking as his starting point the incoherent matrix of hundreds of conflicting gender (re)classification rules operating across the US in departments of motor vehicles, public benefits systems, prisons, shelters, group homes, federal, state, and local data collection contexts, Dean Spade asks what a transgender politics of War on Terror surveillance practices, and government data collection and administration of identity generally, might demand. Such a project entails a recognition of the interwoven politics of mass imprisonment, national standardization and consolidation of identity documentation and data, the criminalization of poverty, and the neoliberal cooptation of social movements. You may download a pdf copy of Dean's latest article related to this talk.

November 27, 2007

Simon Tanner, King's College London. “When the Attention Economy Meets Digital Curation: Winning the Financial Arguments For Digital Preservation.”

Simon Tanner, co-author of Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age, considers the economic issues for digital curation. Drawing upon his experience with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and King's Digital Consultancy Services, he discusses some of the key issues for digital curation in terms of finance and cost models. He uses the Attention Economy as an illustration of the challenge facing digital curation and suggests some solutions and levers for gaining financial support. To view this talk, visit the Center's iTunes U site.

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