Forms of Innovation (Durham, 27th April 2013) | Llordllama's Research Ramblings

"As I mentioned in my regular post, I spent Saturday this past week at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University at an event for PhD students and new Humanities* scholars.  I’ve been waiting for a while to go to my first academic conference or workshop, and when I saw this one I thought it was very much up my street.  Since I was covering all the costs of attending out of my own pocket, I didn’t want to jump at just any event.  However, when I suggested that maybe attending this might be a good idea my supervisor excitedly said “No, you MUST attend this”.  Interestingly even though I wasn’t giving a paper I still had to submit a short precis of my research and the reasons why I wanted to attend, which is not something I’ve had to do before.  However, I think the practice of getting used to writing about my research is something that’s going to a regular co-occurrence in the coming years. The event was titled Forms of Innovation: Humanities, Copyright and New Technologies and promised: A one-day workshop for doctoral students and early-career researchers will explore key questions in copyright, open access publishing as well as the challenges of authorship and attribution in academic social media practices. What follows are my fairly brief personal notes and impressions from the event, rather than deep analysis of the sessions.  Where possible I’ll link out to any resources or papers covered, but as you’ll see some materials aren’t available in the open domain for reasons that I hope will become clear ..."