Emerging Disciplines symposium

Friday, February 25, 2011

Katherine Hayles, Duke University

“How We Think: Transforming Power and

Digital Technologies”

Digital humanities initiate new kinds of research strategies, new forms of pedagogy, and new modes of explanation and expression. Hayles will explore the implications of these changes and speculate on the future of the digital humanities as an emerging discipline.

John J. May, University of Toronto

“One Continuous Lie” (excerpts from

“The Control Papers”)

The digital control surface has silently erased the geometrical and mechanical mode of representation within the design fields, substituting in its place a visual logic. This substitution undercuts long-standing conceptual divisions among technology, subjectivity, perception and political agency.

Christopher McKenna, University of Oxford

“The Very, Very Long View: Reintegrating Corporate

Strategy and History”

The recent reunion of the fields of corporate strategy and business history pushes business historians to consider the long-run strategies of corporate executives and corporate strategists to reconsider their analytical theories within the long-run evolution of industries and firms.

Randolph Roth, Ohio State University

“Can We Learn to Play Well with Others? Enlisting

the Humanities, the Sciences and the Social

Sciences in the Study of Violence”

The deep patterns that social science historians are discovering in the history of homicide suggest how collaboration among humanists, scientists and social scientists can further our understanding of why humans are prone to violence in one circumstance and to nonviolence in another.

Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford University

“Artifactual Knowledge”

Knowledge design is an unidentified disciplinary object that has been seen by a few observers of the contemporary scholarly scene. It arises when the well-oiled machinery of print culture finds itself jammed by a volatile intermedia mix, with the result that the form that knowledge assumes can no longer be considered a given.

Liane Young, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“The Brain Behind the Moral Mind”

Current work examining moral judgment of people’s actions uses behavioral methods, functional neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation and neuropsychological methods to characterize the cognitive and neural mechanisms for judgments of innocence and guilt.