CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : fall 1999 Hadrian's Architecture Public and Private December 6, 1999 Monday, 7:30p.m. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 611 Taft Drive University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign William L. MacDonald Independent Scholar, Washington, D.C. A leading historian of ancient Roman architecture discusses the Pantheon and Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. These two extraordinary works are the culminating creations of a revolution in the design and technology of Roman imperial architecture. The Pantheon and the Tivoli Villa represent both the advanced architectural thinking of Hardian's time (AD 117 - 138) and the man himself. The Pantheon stands as a public statement of the nature of the huge, polyglot Roman Empire and because of its spatial and tangible imagery became a permanent force in the history of western architecture. In contrast, the Villa constitutes a private summary of contemporary culture expressed by buildings, sculpture, and waterworks spread across a vast landscape steeped in historical and religious allusion. Sponsored by: School of Architecture and Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Endowment in conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Krannert Art Museum, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (ATAM) and Central Illinois Society Archaeological Institute of America. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Paris Again or Prague: Who Will Save .lit from .com? November 10, 1999 Wednesday, 8:00p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Joyce Hyperfiction author, Department of English and Director, Center for Electronic Learning and Teaching, Vassar College Contemporary Europe provides an occasion for meditations on new media which invert those of De Tocqueville, moving beyond democracy in America and, for good or ill, toward technocracy in networked Europe. Prague is as yet, if only in the smoke-wreathed icon of its poet and playwright president, Paris again, the new, perhaps the last, republic of words, a new, perhaps the last, gasp of lit before com. Not just lit but com as well depend upon our ability to interrupt the flow of nextness with a sustaining sense of the ordinary. Michael Joyce is the author of afternoon, a story, perhaps the most celebrated hypertext fiction written to date and is co-creator of Storyspace software for creating hypertext narrative. Michael Joyce’s talk is part of the CAS and Beckman Institute interdisciplinary initiative Cyberarts: A New Aesthetic? coordinated by Janet Smarr, Program in Comparative Literature and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Running for ten consecutive Wednesdays, this series addresses how computer technologies are affecting the way we think about the arts. All lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. and are held at the Auditorium of the Beckman Institute. Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: College of Fine and Applied Arts, Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO), Department of Computer Science, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Institute of Communications Research, NCSA, Campus Relations, NCSA, Educational Division, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, School of Art and Design, Cinematography Program, Unit for Cinema Studies and Unit One. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Nos/ostros: “Us” vs. “Them,” (Des)Conocimientos y Compromisos October 29, 1999 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Auditorium, Smith Building 805 South Mathews, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gloria Anzaldua Writer and Independent Scholar Gloria Anzaldua explores the internal struggles and cracks among Latina/os, the fastest growing minority group in the United States. She explores some ideas for expanding awareness among this diverse population and suggests the need to work together to create a new “story” and a new “agenda” for a growing community. Gloria Anzaldua is a writer of international fame whose work has shaped the fields of Chicana/Latina Studies, Gay/Lesbian Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her many works include Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color (co-edited with Cherrie Moraga) and Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists-of-Color. This presentation is given in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Conference, "Territories and Boundaries: Geographies of Latinidad" held October 28 - 30. There is no fee for the conference but registration is required. Sponsored by: The Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cinema Studies Program, College of Communications, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology , Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/o Studies Program and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Speaking Race to Power: Race, Law, and the Construction of Chicano Identity October 28, 1999 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ian F. Haney Lopez Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley In the late 1960s, Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest substituted a Chicano self-conception for a White one. Viewing that dramatic shift through the window of two criminal trials arising in the heavily Mexican American area of East Los Angeles, Ian Haney Lopez argues that police and judicial mistreatment of the community contributed to the formation of a nonwhite Chicano identity. This presentation is given in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Conference, "Territories and Boundaries: Geographies of Latinidad" held October 28 - 30. There is no fee for the conference but registration is required (consult www.cas.uiuc.edu). Sponsored by: The Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cinema Studies Program, College of Communications, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, College of Law, Department of Anthropology, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese , Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/o Studies Program and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Photo: Oscar Castillo, from the PBS series "Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement." AIDS and the Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Personal Journey Toward Empathy October 25, 1999 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rafael Campo Physician, Harvard Medical School, essayist, poet and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of 1993 National Poetry Series Award winner The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World; the Lambda Literary Award for poetry, What the Body Told; and another Lambda Literary Award for memoir, The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity and Desire . Diva, a collection of poetry is scheduled for release September, 1999. Technology and Medicine The transformation is complete. My eyes Are microscopes and cathode X-ray tubes In one, so I can see bacteria, Your underwear, and even through to bones. My hands are hypodermic needles, touch Turned into blood: I need to know your salts And chemistries, a kind of intimacy That won't bear pondering. It's more than love, More weird than ESP--my mouth, for instance, So small and sharp, a dry computer chip That never gets to kiss or taste or tell A brief truth like "You're beautiful," or worse, "You're crying just like me; you are alive." from "The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World" (Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press--University of Houston, 1994) Sponsored by: Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Medical Scholars Program, Office of Academic Student Affairs and College of Medicine in conjunction with: College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Psychiatry , Department of Community Health, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Latino/a Studies Program, Program for Studies of Science, Technology, Information and Medicine, School of Social Work, Unit One, Women’s Studies Program, LaCasa Cultural Latina, McKinley Health Center, Office of Minority Student Affairs, Queer Medical Students and Student Physicians for Human Rights. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. The Problem of Perspectivism and its Absence in the Piazza October 22, 1999 Friday, 4:00 p.m. East Gallery, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marvin Trachtenberg Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Recently we have learned that the civic squares of 14th century Florence were rationally constructed as perspective tableaus. But what happened elsewhere? Was perspectivism a universal planning technique, and if not, what were the alternatives? Were such urbanistic approaches isolated or part of the larger visual culture? And what actually happened afterward in the Renaissance, when perspectivism is usually thought to have originated? How far back in time can urbanistic perspectivism be traced? This lecture is held in conjunction with the symposium “Space and Place” sponsored by the Society for Art History and Archaeology on October 23. For more information, contact 333-1255. Sponsored by: Society for Art History and Archaeology in conjunction with: Art History Program, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archeological Materials (ATAM), Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Architecture, School of Art and Design and Spurlock Museum. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. About What’s Underneath: Discovering the Unknown in the Artistic Process October 21, 1999 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. East Gallery, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joe Goode Performance/Installation Artist, San Francisco and George A. Miller Visiting Scholar, UIUC Choreographer and performance/installation artist Joe Goode has explored the artistic process in both individual and collaborative work. In his latest work at Krannert Art Museum, "About What's Underneath," he looks at the pursuit of tranquility or inner peace in artistic experience in the context of American culture that commodifies both peace of mind and art. “About What’s Underneath” premiers at KAM on October 22. This project at UIUC developed out of the Exhibitions Working Group (EWG), an inter-disciplinary, collaborative group exploring the potential of both the arts and a university art museum on a large research campus. Sponsored by: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion in conjunction with: Department of Dance, Francis P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Media Narrative Center, School of Art and Design, Women’s Studies Program and The Ford Foundation. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Office of Affirmative Action, The Council of Deans, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee and Peggy Harris Memorial Fund. Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America October 19, 1999 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Glen H. Elder, Jr. Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Glen Elder and Rand Conger followed over 400 Iowa children's lives from seventh grade to the post-high school decisions of education, work and family --- a generation growing up during the hard times of the 1980s agricultural crisis. They found despite experiencing adversity associated with heavy economic stress, those children with ties to land fared well in academics and social relationships negotiating pathways to adulthood with the aid of a nexus of small, overlapping worlds consisting of kin, church, school and community. Elder and Conger argue that the fading agrarian way of life once shared by most Americans provides a rich example of how community nurtures the resiliency that prepares young people particularly well for future challenges. The Lita Bane Lecture Fund, established in 1959 by Ms. Bane’s siblings, honors her service as head of the UIUC Department of  Home Economics, as state leader in Home Economics Extension, and as associate editor of Ladies’ Home Journal. Sponsored by: Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent Lita Bane Lecture Fund in conjunction with: Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, School of Social Work, Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois Extension and Illinois Farm Bureau. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. Alternative Ways to Power: Women Organizing for International Develop.m.ent October 8, 1999 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Irene Tinker Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies and City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley , Associate of World Hunger Education Service and International Council of Advisors International Healthy Cities Foundation Irene Tinker, a pioneer in the field of women in international develop.m.ent, discusses alternative approaches that women in developing countries are taking to influence policies and achieve a more equitable share of political and economic power. She addresses the growing variety of non-governmental and grassroots organizations that permit women to develop leadership skills around particular policy issues, such as housing rights, legalizing vending of street foods, and access to credit. Other organizations include: Equity Policy Center (EPOC), Association for Women in Develop.m.ent (AWID) and National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) Sponsored by: Office of Women in International Develop.m.ent, in conjunction with: Afro American Studies and Research Program, Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, International Programs and Studies, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Community Health, Department of Economics, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Council, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/o Studies Program, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Social Work, Women’s Studies Program Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans Back From the Brink: Foundationalist Trends in Post-Post Modernism October 5, 1999 Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rom Harre President, British Society for the Philosophy of Science and George A. Miller Visiting Professor, UIUC Are foundations for knowledge possible after post-modernism? Renowned as a philosopher of science, Rom Harre examines three foundationalist trends in Western thought after post modernism: the possibility of moral diversity without anarchy (Holiday); phenomenology without subjectivism (Wittgenstein): and multiplicity of realities without relativism (Bohr). Rom Harre is professor emeritus of philosophy, Oxford University, England and professor of psychology, Georgetown University. He is the author of over forty books in both the natural and social sciences including, most recently, The Singular Self (1998). Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, in conjunction with: Beckman Institute, College of Medicine, Department of Chemistry, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Medical Scholars Program, Office of International Programs, Program for Study of Science, Technology, Information and Medicine, School of Integrative Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action , Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation: A Digital Library for Tolerance Education September 27, 1999 Monday, 7:30 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sam Gustman Executive Director of Technology, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (VHF) was established by Steven Spielberg to videotape interviews with Holocaust survivors all over the world. Over 50,000 interviews have been conducted resulting in video archives that would take almost fourteen years to view as an entity. Now the challenge is to effectively mine this massive collection and distribute to key institutions around the world for research and educational purposes using high performance networks, mass storage and advanced technologies. Sam Gustman discusses how the VHF developed the necessary technology and protocols to navigate through these materials by keywords, subject, and names using the sophisticated system (pictured above) for storage, management, and display of over 180 tera-bytes of multimedia data. Sponsored by: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Computer Science, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Honors Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute for Communications Research, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, Spurlock Museum, Unit for Cinema Studies, University Library, Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans Revolutionary Icons: Washington and Lenin in American and Soviet Art September 23, 1999 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Room 112, Gregory Hall 810 South Wright Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Vitaly Komar Conceptual artist, New York City Vitaly Komar and his partner, Alexander Melamid, are possibly the best known dissident artists of the postwar USSR and are among the world's most celebrated and iconoclastic artists today. Here Komar examines artistic images of the two most mythologized "founding fathers" of the US and the USSR, Washington and Lenin. With their sharp eyes for irony and the absurd, Komar and Melamid raise fascinating issues of political iconography, popular representations, and national memory. For a sample of their work, visit “America’s Most Wanted Paintings on the Web” which utilizes marketing research to examine the notions of “true” people’s art in fourteen different countries. Sponsored by: Russian and East European Center, in conjunction with: Art History Program, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Continuing Education in International Affairs, Department of History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, Painting Program, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), Program in Comparative Literature, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, School of Art and Design Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans Seed Speakings: The Potential of Some Ancient Ideas Concerning Seeds September 21, 1999 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. East Gallery, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cecilia Vincuna poet, installation/performance artist, New York City and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Scholar Begun in Chile in 1971, Cecilia Vicuna's project "On Behalf of the Seeds" effectively joins her poetic insight as a conceptual artist to her work as an innovative educator. During the 1999-2000 year "On Behalf of the Seeds" will be carried to a new level with projects at UIUC and, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, in Chile. In this performance/talk Vicuna traces the "roots" of the project to the myths and poetry of pre-Columbian America, exploring the ancients' ways of relating to seeds and to the earth as a means of transmitting knowledge and ethical codes. Vicuna's project at UIUC developed out of the Exhibitions Working Group (EWG), an inter disciplinary, collaborative group exploring the potential of both the arts and a university art museum on a large research campus. Performance artist Joe Goode, also working with EWG, will give a program within the CAS/MillerComm series on October 21; his installation opens at KAM on October 22. Sponsored by: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, in conjunction with: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Environmental Rehearsal Lab, Department of Landscape Architecture, Francis P. Rohlen Visiting Artist Fund, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Media Narrative Center, School of Art and Design, Visiting Artists Program, School of Art and Design Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans The Future of Communication Technologies: Communication for Communities or Technology for Technology’s Sake? September 14, 1999 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Room 405, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lana Rakow School of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks Communication technologies often develop according to economic, industrial, or technical imperatives. Drawing on her research in how communities use and interact with communication technologies, Lana Rakow argues for the value of public input at the community level. In this talk she addresses current trends in and the future of community direction of communication technology. Sponsored by: Institute of Communications Research, in conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Journalism, Department of Speech Communication, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities , Office of Organizational Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women’s Studies Program Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans The Aesthetics of Cyberspace September 15, 1999 Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 North Mathews, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John Perry Barlow Co-founder and vice chairman, Electronic Freedom Foundation and Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School Cyberspace is a place made entirely of mind, so it is likely that, as with everything else the mind touches, it will develop its own aesthetics. Are they already there? John Perry Barlow, described by the Utne Reader as one of the “100 visionaries who could change your life,” is co-founder of the Electronic Freedom Foundation, Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, author of the “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace,” and The Economy of Ideas, contributing writer for Wired, self-proclaimed cognitive dissident, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. Deeply interested in the arts and the possibilities for artistic communications offered by cyberspace, he also examines the difficult relations between the politics of cyberspace and the politics of national governments. John Perry Barlow’s talk is part of the CAS and Beckman Institute interdisciplinary initiative Cyberarts: A New Aesthetic? coordinated by Janet Smarr, Program in Comparative Literature and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Running for ten consecutive Wednesdays, this series addresses how computer technologies are affecting the way we think about the arts. All lectures begin at 8:00 p.m. and are held at the Auditorium of the Beckman Institute. Sponsored by: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: College of Fine and Applied Arts Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO), Department of Computer Science, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Institute of Communications Research, NCSA, Campus Relations, NCSA, Educational Division, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative Literature, School of Art and Design, Cinematography Program, Unit for Cinema Studies, Unit One and Vice Chancellor for Research. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Affirmative Action, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans