The Richard Rorty Archive Conference Website Goes Live

There has been some great press for the Richard Rorty Archive conference, "Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't," from Bruce Sterling at Wired and Ian Bogost in a posting on his blog. You can check out the full schedule below. The conference website is now live. Thanks to our generous sponsors, there is no fee for attendance, so I would encourage people in the Southern California area who are interested in philosophy, critical theory, the digital humanities, rhetoric, or archival politics to attend.

“Time Will Tell, But Epistemology Won't: In Memory of Richard Rorty”

A Celebration of Richard Rorty's Archive

May 14, 2010

Humanities Gateway 1030, UC Irvine

Irvine, California

Rorty’s Legacy 9:00 - 9:30 AM

Elizabeth Losh, UC Irvine: Welcome
David Theo Goldberg, UC Irvine: Opening Remarks
Mary Rorty, Stanford: Memory, Ethics, and Literary Custodianship in the Era of Computational Media

Michelle Light, UC Irvine: “Designing the Born Digital Archive” 9:30-10:00 AM

Cultural Politics and the Born Digital, Michelle Light, Chair 10:00-11:00 AM

Dawn Schmitz, UC Irvine: “The Born-Digital Manuscript as Cultural Form and Intellectual Record”

Mark Poster, UC Irvine: “Digital and Analogue Archives”

Erin Obodiac, UC Irvine: “Digital Immunity”

Tom Hyry, UCLA, Respondent

Break: 11:00 - 11:15 AM

Christine Borgman, UCLA: “The Digital Archive: The Data Deluge Arrives in the Humanities” 11:15-11:45 AM

Rorty, Philosophy, and The Question Concerning Technology, David W. Smith, Chair 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Mark Wrathall, UC Riverside: “Responding to Rorty: Heidegger's ‘Academic Parochialism’ and the Technological Age”

Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico: “Rorty, Heidegger, and the Danger and Promise of the Technological Archive.”

LUNCH

Margaret Gilbert, UC Irvine: "Rorty and Human Rights" 2:15-2:40 PM

Rorty as a Public Intellectual, Jonathan Alexander, Chair 2:40 - 4:45

Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech: “We Think in Public”

Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University: “Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard”

21st Century Scholarship from Ali M. Meghdadi, Brian Garcia, Tae-Kyung Timothy Elijah Sung, UC Irvine: "Content Confronts Context"

Break: 4:45-5:00

Closing Speaker: Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University: “Reading Rorty Rhetorically” 5:00-6:30