{"620146":{"#nid":"620146","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Humanistic Perspectives at Technological Universities: A Symposium April 19-20","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the history of the modern university the relationship between the humanities on one hand and sciences and technology on the other has been a contested one.\u0026nbsp;Our symposium means to bring together leaders from across the nation to create an inventory of the opportunities and challenges for humanities scholarship and education at institutions of higher learning primarily focused on science and technology research and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHumanistic Perspectives at Technological Universities: A Symposium\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nApril 19-20, 2019\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRenaissance Hotel Midtown\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtlanta, Georgia\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing is the schedule for the Symposium and edited\u0026nbsp;summaries of the keynotes. Please explore the full scope of the keynote topics\u0026nbsp;at the Symposium website:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHosts:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/hosts\/\u0022\u003EJohn Browning\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/hosts\/\u0022\u003EKaren Head\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/hosts\/\u0022\u003ERichard\u0026nbsp;Utz\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFormat:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EKeynotes\u0026nbsp;25min; Responses 10min\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFRIDAY, APRIL 19\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E8:45am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGreeting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EG.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, President, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChaouki Abdallah, EVPR, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E9am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLetting Tech into the Humanities and the Humanities into Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/paula-krebs\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaula Krebs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, MLA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/anna-westerstahl-stenport\/\u0022\u003EAnna Stenport\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommentators on Silicon Valley culture, from the Wall Street Journal to the Atlantic, point out what a relatively small percentage of computer tech leaders actually have degrees in engineering and how valuable the humanities perspective is for tech companies that want to break out of their siloed worlds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorcester Polytechnic and Olin College of Engineering, in Massachusetts, feature problem-based learning as central to their engineering curricula. They ask students to approach social and material problems from a number of perspectives, using the humanities and the social sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRhyming the Human, Reading the Signs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/lucinda-roy\/\u0022\u003ELucinda Roy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Virginia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/nettrice-gaskins\/\u0022\u003ENettrice Gaskins\u003C\/a\u003E, Fab Foundation\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe dizzying cost of education has resulted in an understandable desire to convert student learning into six-figure salaries, if only to enable them to pay off the onerous debt they\u0026rsquo;ve incurred. But viewing education as the accumulation of relevant data presupposes that we can always predict relevance. We cannot. Drawing upon observations in her memoir-critique No Right to Remain Silent: What We\u0026rsquo;ve Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech and her time in administration, novelist and poet Lucinda Roy will explore the urgent, life-or-death challenges we face in higher education as she suggests ways to ensure that our voices, in all their wondrous diversity, are heard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMaking \u0026lsquo;Feminized\u0026rsquo; Knowledge Integral to Engineering Education\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/marie-hicks\/\u0022\u003EMarie Hicks\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Illinois Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/lauren-klein\/\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Lauren Klein\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe history of technology, which has in recent decades become increasingly attentive to more diverse narratives and perspectives, offers one way in. With the explosion of histories of technology looking at gender, and to a lesser extent race and sexuality, a subfield that has in the past lagged other historical subdisciplines in attention to diversity has come to the forefront in helping to teach engineers how to think beyond the confines of traditional progress narratives, and in opening up new ways of understanding the often-unintended reverberating effects of technological change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:15pm \u0026ndash; 1:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLunch Break\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMaking Games to Make Change\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/alexandrina-agloro\/\u0022\u003EAlexandrina Agloro\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, ASU\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/nassim-parvim\/\u0022\u003ENassim Parvin\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhy are games so compelling, and how can we harness the power of interactive media for social good? Alexandrina Agloro will discuss how participatory design and community-based methodologies can contribute to the ways we think about organizing and implementing activism using interactive media as a decolonial tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Perils and Rewards of Interdisciplinary Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/laura-severin\/\u0022\u003ELaura Severin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, NCSU\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondents:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/jennifer-hirsch\/\u0022\u003EJennifer Hirsch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026amp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/ruthie-yow\/\u0022\u003ERuthie Yow\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation traces the history of North Carolina State University\u0026rsquo;s cluster hiring program (The Chancellor\u0026rsquo;s Faculty Excellence Program), begun in 2011, and particularly focuses on the challenges of Humanities and Social Sciences faculty, first to be included in the program and, once included, to establish effective partnerships with STEM faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Dream of an Integral Plan at MIT\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/rosalind-williams\/\u0022\u003ERosalind Williams\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, MIT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/jay-david-bolter\/\u0022\u003EJay Bolter\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch professional education is organized around a stratified plan where a general undergraduate education is followed by concentrated professional training.\u0026nbsp; This is the typical pattern in law and medicine, and in Europe it has generally been true also of engineering education.\u0026nbsp; MIT was founded instead on an integral plan for engineering education, which proposes that it is possible and desirable to combine a sound general education and a sound foundation for professional practice in one undergraduate program.\u0026nbsp; But how is it possible to do this without offering only \u0026ldquo;the mere smattering of humanities,\u0026rdquo; which would be \u0026ldquo;wholly inadequate for future leaders of technology and business, who will have to grapple with social problems more important than strictly technical problems?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4:30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGuidance and Restoration: Some Timely Opportunities for Humanities Scholar-Educators and Students at Technological Institutions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/paul-m-goldbart\/\u0022\u003EPaul M. Goldbart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, UT Austin\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/lisa-yaszek\/\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor some 250 years after The Enlightenment, the arc of the societal universe generally bent towards an embracing of science as Carl Sagan\u0026rsquo;s Candle in the Dark, and did so, by and large, at an ever-increasing rate. In the present millennium, however, two societal challenges to this trend \u0026ndash; neither of them broadly anticipated \u0026ndash; have emerged, which humanists\u0026rsquo; scholarship, instruction, and very presence as partners at technological institutions makes them well positioned and well armed to combat. What are these challenges? What remedies can humanists engender when they are present as thoroughly woven-in threads of the intellectual fabric of the technological institution?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E6 \u0026ndash; 7 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nReception and Visualization\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESATURDAY, APRIL 20\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E8:45am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGreeting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EG.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson, President, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChaouki Abdallah, EVPR, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E9am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026lsquo;Almost Unintelligible\u0026rsquo;: Practical Approaches to Interdisciplinary Education in STEM Contexts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/julia-williams\/\u0022\u003EJulia M. Williams\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, RHIT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/colin-potts\/\u0022\u003EColin Potts\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMutual unintelligibility in an analysis of interdisciplinarity in higher education puts language at the center of the work. In fact, mutual unintelligibility may serve as a controlling metaphor for this discussion of practical approaches to interdisciplinary education. In examples of how interdisciplinarity is constructed on my campus, I will highlight the importance of language, both as communication and as a structure for knowledge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGrand Challenge Seminars: General Education that Integrates the Humanities Rather than Isolates Them\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/richard-scheines\/\u0022\u003ERichard Scheines\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, CMU\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/joycelyn-wilson\/\u0022\u003EJoycelyn Wilson\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn revising our general education program at a college of humanities and social sciences that is embedded within a highly technological university, we eschewed requiring that Humanities be taken in isolation and instead designed a curriculum in which they are explicitly integrated into multi-disciplinary courses that focus on topics rather than subjects. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11am\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRhetorical Studies Goes Tech: Working in the Archives with Digital Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/jacqueline-royster\/\u0022\u003EJacqueline Jones Royster\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRespondent:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/rebecca-burnett\/\u0022\u003ERebecca Burnett\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat happens when academic traditions meet technology? \u0026nbsp;In the case of those of us who do archival work in rhetorical studies, we rejoice. \u0026nbsp;This presentation will focus on one set of examples that illustrate ways in which digital technologies have energized what it means to work in archives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:25pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSymposium Ends\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the history of the modern university the relationship between the humanities on one hand and sciences and technology on the other has been a contested one.\u0026nbsp;Our symposium means to bring together leaders from across the nation to create an inventory of the opportunities and challenges for humanities scholarship and education at institutions of higher learning primarily focused on science and technology research and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Thought leaders across the nation discuss the challenges and opportunities for humaities, scholarship, and education at science and technology research universities"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2019-04-05 21:07:24","changed_gmt":"2019-04-18 13:15:08","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-04-19T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-04-20T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-04-20T01:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-04-19 05:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-04-20 05:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-04-20 05:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620136":{"id":"620136","type":"image","title":"Humanistic Perspectives at Technological Universities: A Symposium","body":null,"created":"1554497314","gmt_created":"2019-04-05 20:48:34","changed":"1554497314","gmt_changed":"2019-04-05 20:48:34","alt":"Humanistic Perspectives at Technological Universities: A Symposium, April 19-20, 2019","file":{"fid":"236112","name":"flyer_wide.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/flyer_wide.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/flyer_wide.png","mime":"image\/png","size":88306,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/flyer_wide.png?itok=PXxHojZd"}}},"media_ids":["620136"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"110171","name":"humanistic perspectives"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"167061","name":"symposium"},{"id":"180974","name":"humantech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/humantech.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}