The Document Academy Announces
DOCAM '09
March 28-29, 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Library and Information Studies
Helen C. White Hall
Madison, Wisconsin USA
DOCAM '09 is the sixth annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool in Sciences, Arts, Business, and Society. The aim of The Document Academy is to create an interdisciplinary space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense, drawing on traditions and experiences around the world. It originated as a co-sponsored effort by The Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies is pleased to host DOCAM for a second year in 2009.
DOCAM 09 papers, as usual, run across multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and intradisciplinary themes, this year in the domains of art, medical records, document design, reading, digital libraries, rhetoric and archives. See the schedule.
The conference will run from 9 AM Saturday, March 28, to 5 PM Sunday, March 29, 2009. The keynote speaker is Bernd Frohmann, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, and formerly of the Bertrand Russell Editorial Project at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Professor Frohmann's book Deflating Information: From Science Studies to Documentation (2004) brought the resources of the social studies of science to information studies and documentation. His current research interests are in the areas of documentation and information ethics. Earlier work applied Foucauldian discourse analysis to problems in information studies.
Conference registration is $100, $60 for full-time students; both fees include Saturday lunch. Registration is now open. A block of rooms for conference attendees has been reserved at the Lowell Center on the UW-Madison campus. If reserving using the online form, the conference code or number is "document"; if reserving by telephone (866-301-1753 toll-free), please mention that you're with the Document Academy.
For more information contact the co-chairs of Docam 2009:
Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 890-1334
fax: (608) 263-4849
casmith24@wisc.edu
Roswitha Skare, PhD
Associate Professor
Documentation Studies
University of Tromsø
NO-9037 Tromsø, Norge
Tel: +47- 776 46318
roswitha.skare@hum.uit.no