Sponsors
The Duke Podcasting Symposium would like to thank the following corporate sponsors for providing lunches to all symposium attendees:
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The Duke Podcasting Symposium is the result of a remarkably interdisciplinary team of organizers and sponsors across Duke University. We would particularly like to acknowledge the generous financial support from each of the following Duke organizations:
Center for Instructional Technology
The Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) supports the academic mission of Duke University by helping faculty find innovative ways to use technology to achieve their teaching goals. Drawing on expertise in both technology and pedagogy, CIT staff assist faculty with projects, share information across the university about effective practices and examine the effect of technology on teaching and learning. CIT believe instructional technology can contribute to Duke’s academic excellence by increasing student engagement with course materials, supporting active learning strategies, better matching teaching and learning styles, fostering communication and collaboration, streamlining course administration and developing students’ skills for future learning and work.
John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies
The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is a unique consortium of programs committed to revitalizing notions of how knowledge is gained and exchanged. Participants from a broad range of disciplines converge to explore intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political themes of our time: race and race relations, the legacy of the African-American experience, equality and opportunity among diverse populations, the implications of accelerated globalization. At its core, the Center claims an intrepid and daring mission: to bring together humanists and those involved in the social sciences in a setting that inspires vigorous scholarship and imaginative alliances. In this way, historians, artists, literary scholars, and philosophers contribute to a rich understanding of moral and ethical issues. Inspired by the example of John Hope Franklin--Duke professor emeritus, historian, intellectual leader, and lifelong civil rights activist--the Franklin Center embraces a creative cross-pollination of ideas, perspectives, and methodologies. Using such sophisticated resources as multimedia and high-speed videoconferencing, the Franklin Center employes advanced technologies not only as a means to an end, but as objects of critical inquiry themselves. These striking new directions in higher education require the marriage of philosophical imagination and pragmatic design.
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Founded in 1999, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University is an interdisciplinary humanities center dedicated to supporting humanities, arts, and social science research and teaching at Duke. We seek to encourage serious humanistic inquiry throughout the entire University and to instill the general public with an awareness of the centrality of the humanities to the quality of human life and social interaction. We also promote scholarship that enhances social equity, especially research on race and ethnicity in their most profound historical and international dimensions. In this ambitious mission, we are inspired by our namesake, John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History. Located in the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute is built on a fundamentally collaborative model fitting Duke's emphasis on facilitating interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Through an array of innovative programs, we seek to encourage the conversations, partnerships, and collaborations that are continually stimulating creative and fresh humanistic research, writing, and teaching at Duke.
Kimberly J. Jenkins Collaboratory for New Technologies and Society
The Jenkins Collaboratory researches developing technologies in contemporary science, engineering, and medicine, and their social and ethical implications. Our work focuses particularly on the current fusion of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information technologies, and the transformative possibilities of this fusion for biomedicine, human-machine engineering, cultural production, and civic engagement. The areas we choose to investigate are highly interdisciplinary and increasingly distributed in global modes of transnational production. Collaboration is crucial to the scientists and engineers whose work we document and engage. Collaboration is equally crucial to our mission of investigating their work. By adapting open-source and off-the-shelf web-based technologies to facilitate collaborative documentation of the history of contemporary science and technology—fields that are born digital—we develop technologies to support working partnerships among scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanities scholars. To contribute to the construction of archives for the history of contemporary fields in biomedicine, such as bioinformatics and genomics, we design interactive timelines and web-based genealogy tools allowing scientists and engineers to partner with us in documenting the history of their own work. In order to facilitate public engagement with the social and ethical implications of these sciences-in-the-making before they acquire momentum and become difficult to critique or modify, we develop tools for live video annotation and commentary as well as podcasting environments for audioblogging. In addition to documenting contemporary scientific work and providing venues for scholarly collaboration and public engagement, we create resources for critical scholarly analyses relevant to science and technology policy. Foremost among these are tools for visualizing flows of innovation in techno-scientific networks based on interfacing semantic content and citation analysis of scientific documents and patents, as well as data on author, inventor, and organizational profiles. We investigate the role of university-based research in regional economies, and the relative contributions of federal and private funding to the growth of contemporary science and technology.
Information Science + Information Studies
The mission of Duke University's Information Science + Information Studies program is to study and create new information technologies and to analyze their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment. The program's innovative Curriculum promotes a collaborative approach to information design and analysis, as reflected by the extremely successful Spring 2005 ISIS Research Capstone course, in which seven undergraduates from different disciplines collaborated with Duke Campus Services to design a new online campus map. The ISIS Research Group functions as a network of interdisciplinary faculty and students at Duke who have assembled under ISIS to collaborate in designing and building innovative technology-inflected research initiatives. One of the most successful recent research initiatives combined members from the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems, ISIS, and the Department of Music to create soundSense, an interactive media space that explores of the possibility of representing human movement via information sonification. The ISIS Events Forum supports and helps create various on-going speaker series devoted to investigating ISIS-related themes at Duke, such as the Duke Podcasting Sympoisum and regularly recurring discussions, such as the popular Visualization Friday Forum and TechTuesdays, which bring together scholars and researchers from across campus to address the multidisciplinary issues inherent in information technology research and development.
Music Department
Whether it's the Wind Symphony giving an open-air concert in the Duke Gardens, the Chorale singing carols in the Chapel, or the Jazz Ensemble sharing the stage with celebrated guest artists in beautiful Baldwin Auditorium, music is very much a part of Duke. Regardless of whether you are considering a professional career in music or want to pursue it as an avocation, whether you want to refine your skills as a performer, explore your creative potential as a composer, or deepen your understanding as a listener, come and explore the opportunities that await you at Duke: a curriculum that combines theory, history, ethnomusicology, and performance; a low student-faculty ratio; a distinguished faculty of scholars, composers, and performers with expertise in a broad range of subjects; thirteen different vocal and instrumental performing groups, open to majors and non-majors alike; annual concert series focusing on a wide variety of periods and styles; a music library with over 85,000 books, scores, journals, and microfilms, housed in the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building; and superb practice facilities and a wide-ranging collection of historical instruments. At the graduate level the Department of Music offers programs leading to the A.M. and Ph.D. in Composition and Musicology, and the A.M. in Performance Practice. The programs include courses, seminars, and independent study in composition, ethnomusicology, music history, music theory and analysis, performance practice and interpretation, and interdisciplinary studies.
Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
The Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies works with faculty members and administrators from Duke's nine schools to instigate and facilitate interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and instruction and is responsible for approving, reviewing, and helping to manage over sixty interdisciplinary centers and institutes. The VPIS also has subject-area oversight for University-wide initiatives in innovation and entrepreneurship, for experimental uses of new technologies, for interdisciplinary humanities and humanistic social sciences, and for greater integration of the arts into the academic mission of the University. The office is additionally responsible for: sponsoring the annual Common Fund competition for interdisciplinary research; working with the development staff to raise funds for interdisciplinary programs; overseeing hiring and guidelines for University Professors implementing the Interdisciplinary Infrastructure Fund; collaborating with deans and department chairs to overcome obstacles to interdisciplinarity (including ICR distribution, team-teaching credit, and flexible scheduling); and helping to create structural changes in support of interdisciplinarity, including new Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure guidelines and hiring procedures.
Office of Information Technology
The Duke University Office of Information Technology (OIT) is a multi-faceted team of IT professionals working to support and enhance the university' s core mission in an environment of education, research, and service. The breadth of service provided by OIT ranges from behind-the-scenes work on building and maintaining Duke's IT architecture to collaborating with peers to seek-out and implement innovative enterprise technology solutions to servicing thousands of members of the Duke community face-to-face, over the phone, and via e-mail to support their IT needs such as e-mail, personal computing and wireless phones. The OIT staff, which is constantly expanding its skill set, includes many innovators in their respective fields who network with industry leaders from around the world to keep up-to-date on important technological advances in fields with far-reaching impact on the academic environment. These areas of interest include identity management, IT security, Wi-Fi, e-mail, high-performance computing, content management, mobile computing, calendaring and wireless communications. Within the university, Duke OIT is taking a leadership role in realizing one of the institution's highest strategic goals -- to "intensify the use of information technology." Collaborating with groups from throughout the Duke community to implement appropriate new technologies, OIT staff and administrators are active participants with major Duke IT groups and are constantly engaged in outreach to educate faculty, staff, and students on technology issues.
Program in Literature
Program in Women's Studies
The Program in Women’s Studies at Duke University is part of an historical educational enterprise inaugurated by social movement and dedicated to the study of identity as a complex social phenomena. In the field’s first decades, feminist scholarship reoriented traditional disciplines toward the study of women and gender and developed new methodologies and critical vocabularies that have made interdisciplinarity a key feature of Women’s Studies as an autonomous field. Today, scholars continue to explore the meaning and impact of identity as a primary—though by no means transhistorical or universal—way of organizing social life by pursuing an intersectional analysis of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality. In the classroom, as in our research, our goal is to transform the university’s organization of knowledge by reaching across the epistemological and methodological divisions of historical, political, economic, representational, technological and scientific analysis. In our Program’s dual emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality, we offer students new knowledge about identity while equipping them with a wide range of analytical and methodological skills.
