The Brown University Library and the Council on Library and Information Resources will host leading scholars from around the country for a symposium on scholarly methods in the Humanities. The event will kick off with an installation of an electronic work, "imposition," by John Cayley, Visiting Professor of Literary Arts, and a reception on Thursday evening, April 17, in the Rockefeller Library. The symposium, sponsored by CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources) will be held on Friday, April 18, at the Watson Institute for International Studies and will feature presentations by Randy Bass, Georgetown University, Bernard Frischer, University of Virginia, and Christopher Dede, Harvard University. The program will close with a panel discussion on the impact of multi-literacies on transforming the student's experience as scholar, with Brown faculty members and students including Dietrich Neumann, Professor of Art and Architecture, Susan Smulyan, Associate Professor of American Civilizations, James Der Derian, Professor of International Studies, and Professor Cayley.

"The first shots of the information revolution may have been fired over a decade ago, but we are still grappling with what the tremendous advances in technology mean to scholarly life," said Harriette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family University Librarian. "This symposium builds on Brown's culture of interdisciplinary, active learning, enabling an environment where students partner with faculty to probe questions at the center and edges of academic inquiry. Brown faculty members were among the first to explore cutting edge technologies and to incorporate humanities computing into their teaching and research. This meeting of minds will help take stock of how far we've come and where we need to go to better prepare our students for a rapidly changing world and to unlock their potential as life-long scholars."