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MITH: A Panel on Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature, and Bill Bly Reading from WE DESCEND

MITH: A Panel on Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature, and Bill Bly Reading from WE DESCEND

English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Hornbake Library, 301 (MITH Conference Room)

On Thursday, January 30th, three esteemed scholars as well as fiction writer Bill Bly will be joining us to celebrate the University of Maryland's acquisition of Bly's literary papers, including his computer diskettes and other born-digital materials.

Please join us for a panel on: *** Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature ***

Thursday, January 30th, 3:00 pm in the MITH conference room (Hornbake Library) With JOANNE ARCHER (University of Maryland Libraries), JEREMY DOUGLASS (UC Santa Barbara), DENE GRIGAR (Washington State University Vancouver), KARI KRAUS (University of Maryland), STUART MOULTHROP (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM (moderator) & A Reading from WE DESCEND, by hypertext fiction by BILL BLY (to begin at 4:30pm).

WE DESCEND, "a story of our far future, unearthed by a scholar to whom it is the distant past," was originally published on computer disk by Eastgate Systems in 1997. More information, as well as a continuation of the work, is available here: http://www.wedescend.com/

Free and open to the public. For information, contact Matthew Kirschenbaum, mgk@umd.edu.

Add to Calendar 01/30/14 3:00 PM 01/30/14 4:30 PM America/New_York MITH: A Panel on Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature, and Bill Bly Reading from WE DESCEND

On Thursday, January 30th, three esteemed scholars as well as fiction writer Bill Bly will be joining us to celebrate the University of Maryland's acquisition of Bly's literary papers, including his computer diskettes and other born-digital materials.

Please join us for a panel on: *** Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature ***

Thursday, January 30th, 3:00 pm in the MITH conference room (Hornbake Library) With JOANNE ARCHER (University of Maryland Libraries), JEREMY DOUGLASS (UC Santa Barbara), DENE GRIGAR (Washington State University Vancouver), KARI KRAUS (University of Maryland), STUART MOULTHROP (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM (moderator) & A Reading from WE DESCEND, by hypertext fiction by BILL BLY (to begin at 4:30pm).

WE DESCEND, "a story of our far future, unearthed by a scholar to whom it is the distant past," was originally published on computer disk by Eastgate Systems in 1997. More information, as well as a continuation of the work, is available here: http://www.wedescend.com/

Free and open to the public. For information, contact Matthew Kirschenbaum, mgk@umd.edu.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum
mgk@umd.edu