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SUMMARY:Symposium: Digital Scholarship and Radicalism Studies
DESCRIPTION:
 Michigan State University Libraries and the Journal 
 for the Study of Radicalism (MSU Press) 
 have partnered with ARC (http://idhmc.tamu.edu/arcgrant/ 
 ) to create SiRO (Studies in Radicalism 
 Online, current on a staging server atedge.studiesinradicalism.org/ 
 ). To launch SiRO 
 we will hold a symposium at MSU on March 
 27, 2015, which we are calling "Digital Scholarship 
 and Radicalism Studies" Our idea is that 
 JSR and SiRO will build this collection and 
 community for scholarly activity, much in the 
 way that other ARC "nodes" have done (see: 
 http://idhmc.tamu.edu/arcgrant/nodes/ )-though 
 peer review of digital objects, classroom 
 and exhibition building, and through the sharing 
 of high quality digital materials for the 
 study of radicalism.\n
 \n
 For more on SiRO please 
 see the "About" page: http://edge.studiesinradicalism.org/about/about-siro/\n
 \n
 The 
 symposium 
 is free but seating is limited.  For additional 
 information and to reserve your seat, 
 please visit http://classes.lib.msu.edu/view_class.php?class_id=119.\n
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 Agenda:\n
 10:00: 
 Coffee/Registration\n
 10:15: Opening remarks\n
 10:30: 
 Keynote panel on New Approaches to Digital 
 Scholarship\n
 11:30: Ken Wachsberger (Voices 
 from the Underground series editor)\n
 12:15: 
 Break for lunch\n
 1:15: Keynote: Tim McCarthy: 
 Documenting the American Radical Tradition 
 in the Digital Age\n
 2:10: Liz Grumbach (Meeting 
 Scholars Where They Are: The Advanced Research 
 Consortium (ARC) and a Social Humanities 
 Infrastructure\n
 3:00: Keynote Panel Digital 
 Scholarship, Radicalism Studies, and SiRO 
 (studiesinradicalism.org)\n
 3:45: Business meeting 
 for SiRO affiliates\n
 4:30: Adjourn\n
 \n
 Featured 
 Speakers:\n
 Tim McCarthy: Timothy Patrick 
 McCarthy holds a joint faculty appointment 
 in Harvard's undergraduate honors program in 
 History and Literature and at the Harvard Kennedy 
 School, where he is founding director of 
 the Sexuality, Gender & Human Rights Program 
 at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. 
 He is also the Stanley Paterson Professor of 
 American History in the Boston Clemente Course 
 in the Humanities in Dorchester, Massachusetts. 
 A historian of politics and social movements, 
 Dr. McCarthy is the author or editor of 
 five books: The Radical Reader: A Documentary 
 History of the American Radical Tradition 
 (2003); Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the 
 History of American Abolitionism (2006); Protest 
 Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of 
 American Radicalism (2010); The Indispensable 
 Zinn: The Essential Writings of The People's 
 Historian (2012); and Stonewall's Children: 
 Living Queer History in the Age of Liberation, 
 Loss, and Love, forthcoming from the New 
 Press in 2015.\n
 \n
 Ken Wachsberger: Ken Wachsberger 
 is the founder of Azenphony Press, a member 
 of Independent Book Publishers Association, 
 and the series editor for the four-volume 
 Voices from the Underground (MSU Press, see:http://www.voicesfromtheunderground.com/voices.htm 
 ). He is a long-time writer, editor, author, 
 and political organizer, as well as an 
 early member, a book contract adviser, and a 
 former national officer of the National Writers 
 Union-to which Voices from the Underground, 
 in part, is dedicated.\n
 \n
 Liz Grumbach: Liz 
 Grumbach is the Project Manager for ARC and 
 18thConnect. For ARC, she coordinates communication 
 between the nodes and executive committee 
 members, as well as providing support for 
 aggregating metadata and organizing the sustainability 
 of ARC software. For 18thConnect, 
 she manages the TypeWright document evaluation 
 team and the peer review of scholarly, digital 
 archives and projects.\n
 \n
 Arthur Versluis: 
 Arthur Versluis is Chair of the Department 
 of Religious Studies and Professor in the College 
 of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. 
  His primary areas of research focus 
 on marginalized religious or political figures 
 and groups.  Among his books are American Gurus: 
 From Transcendentalism to New Age Religion 
 (Oxford UP, 2014) Magic and Mysticism: An 
 Introduction to Western Esotericism (Rowman 
 Littlefield, 2007), The New Inquisitions: Heretic-hunting 
 and the Intellectual Origins of 
 Modern Totalitarianism (Oxford UP, 2006); The 
 Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance 
 (Oxford UP: 2001); and American Transcendentalism 
 and Asian Religions (Oxford UP, 1993). 
  The founding president of the Association for 
 the Study of Esotericism, he is the founding 
 editor of Esoterica, and editor of JSR: Journal 
 for the Study of Radicalism.  \n
 \n
 Gabriel 
 Dotto, director of the Michigan State University 
 Press, has worked in commercial and scholarly 
 publishing for over 35 years. He has served 
 as advisor or supervisor on a number of 
 digital media projects, from early CD-Rom publications 
 to large-scale digital preservation 
 of archival documents. At MSU Press he initiated 
 the digital conversion of Press books, 
 available in various e-formats and aggregator 
 platforms, and serves on the Advisory Board 
 of the University Press Content Consortium of 
 Project MUSE. As a musicologist he has published 
 on 19th and 20th century music, serves as 
 editor of the critical editions of the operas 
 of Puccini and of Donizetti and is a consultant 
 for the planned digital network of European 
 Archives of Twentieth-Century Music.\n
 \n
 Daniel Lewis: Daniel Lewis is a Product Manager 
 for ProQuest focusing on the product development 
 for History Vault. In this role, he conducts 
 research on archival collections, consult 
 with reference archivists at archival institutions, 
 works with several historical advisers 
 to decide the collections they wish to digitize. 
 He has worked on the History Vault content 
 since 1999. Daniel  received a B.A. from 
 Williams College with a major in History and 
 an M.A. from American University. At American, 
 he studied labor and civil rights and received 
 an archives fellowship to the George Meany 
 Memorial Archives, and a junior fellowship 
 to the Library of Congress where he helped 
 with the processing of the NAACP Records collection. 
 \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Main Library
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