CHAT Festival

The Collaborations: Humanities, Arts, & Technology (CHAT) Festival is taking place at Duke University on Feb. 6 - 9, 2012.  The Festival features all sorts of local scholarly and artistic talent- from Duke, UNC at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. It'll be the event of the semester for humanities, art and technology, with many sessions directly related to SILS interests with some SILS students presenting.

Check the CHAT schedule <http://www.chatfestival2012.org/schedule/>  (click an event for details), or go to the Digital Scholars Web page.  

Highlights:

• Monday at noon there will be a grad student lunch where you can meet others with similar interests so you'll recognize some faces during the week.
• Monday at 3:45 there's a session called Humanities CoLABorations featuring UNC's Bobby Allen and other Lab leaders and members that will be focused on the role that Labs are playing in humanities scholarship
• Don't miss the reception and Keynote panel on Monday night
• Tuesday at 10:30 there will be a session on Digital Museums, Archives, and Publications
• Elliott Hauser will be on the Wednesday morning panel on Humanities Data
• Wednesday afternoon, there will be an interesting talk on Digital Historical Reconstruction: Visualizing the Past
• Thursday night there will be a celebratation with a DJ at Durham's MotorCo

The first CHAT Festival (February 2010) was hosted by the Institute for the Arts & Humanities  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .  At that time, Duke University  and North Carolina State University agreed to host subsequent festivals, with the hope that the event would be a regular venue for showcasing the innovative work.

One goal of the Festival is to reflect back to ourselves the rich community of practice already existing in the Triangle and Piedmont region. We are all familiar with the phenomenon of only learning about the interesting work our colleague across the hall – or on the neighboring campus – is doing by hearing a talk at a national conference. Our hope is to build up sustainable conversations within the community through this event, to seed the growth of collaborative, project-based work in the arts and humanities, and foster reflection on the implications of this kind of work for teaching, research, and public arts and humanities efforts.