How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
Video, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
Video, William Uricchio: “We’ve Digitized the Archive…Now What?”
“Things are changing radically in the university…it’s a moment of great terror.”
Video: Linda Gregerson, “Why I Write Poems”
Linda Gregerson discusses her new book of poems, The Selvage, and her calling as a poet and professor of Renaissance literature in conversation with Forum Director David Thorburn and members of the audience.
Video: George Lakoff, “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical—a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood.
Activist DDOS Campaigns: When Similies and Metaphors Fail
“DDOS as a tool cannot be wholly condemn or lauded without its surrounding context.”
Video: “Electronic Literature and Future Books”
How electronic literature has influenced other media and the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art.
