Event: Mapping Main Street // Tues 10/20

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Hey all, hope everyone's having a great start to the fall semester/season! Check out these events below if they interest you!

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[TUESDAY 10/20/09] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on MAPPING MAIN STREET ================================================================================

10/20/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA RSVP is required for those attending in person (rs...@cyber.law.harvard.edu). This event will be webcast live.

Topic: Mapping Main Street: Experiments in Estrangement at the Intersection of Social Science, Art, Design, Public Media and the Digital Humanities

Guest: Jesse Shapins, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the School of Arts and Sciences, and James Burns, Department of Economics at Harvard University

Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Launched in August on NPR's Weekend Edition and partially funded by the Berkman Center Harvard Graduate Student Awards, the project is a co-production by Harvard PhD students Jesse Shapins and James Burns with public media artists Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann.

With this luncheon talk, the creators of Mapping Main Street hope to gain specific feedback on how to further develop the project as an interdisciplinary research initiative between between the social sciences, art, design, public media and digital humanities.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/mappingmainstreet

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[3] 10/17: PublicMediaCamp // Washington, DC

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[4] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

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