The slides to his presentation can be  downloaded here and he can be contacted at cpeterson [at] umasslegal.org.

A YouTube version of the video can be accessed here and a full-quality (1.5 gig) version of the movie can be downloaded here.

Click here to download a high quality version of this video (MP4, 500 meg).

Recruiting schedule

For Fall semester, 2009 internships at MFHC
Applications available: April 13

Applications due in LS office: April 24

Interviews: April 27-29

Admission Decisions: May 1
Questions may be directed to Professors Arons or Levinsky.

International School on Digital Transformation
Porto, Portugal
University of Porto and the University of Texas at Austin
July 19-25, 2009

http://colab.ic2.utexas.edu/dm/international-school/

Applications are now open for the first International School on Digital Transformation, to be held July 19-24, 2009, at the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal. The School is accepting applications from advanced students and recent graduates from around the world with an interest in how digital technologies are changing societies and the world as a whole.

The International School on Digital Transformation will be an intensive six-day residential program, conducted in English and bringing together emerging and established scholars and professionals from around the world. During the week-long session, innovators in digital communications will serve as teachers and mentors, presenting their current projects and research and participating in discussions with advanced students and professionals beginning careers in the field. Presenters and students will be regarded as peers during the School.

The School will focus on these themes:

• Democratic transformations of society through digital media
• Innovations in transparency and political participation using new online tools
• Grassroots civic activities using digital technologies
• Building effective communities with the Internet
• Reaching out to new users with mobile and online technologies
• Prospects for digital communication in developing regions
• Digital arts and culture in a globalized, online world

The goals of the International School include:

•  Combining lectures on current research and innovation with practical experience, using accessible, low-cost digital technologies
•  Providing an informal venue for sharing expertise, perspectives, and best practices and for mentoring advanced students
•  Fostering a sustainable network of scholars and activists in the field of digital technology, communication and social change

Program

The basic daily schedule will consist of one 90-minute session of lecture and discussion in the morning: free time for teachers and students to interact, converse and explore the city in the afternoon; and two more 90-minute lecture and discussion sessions in the evening, followed by a communal meal.

The confirmed speakers for the International School on Digital Transformation include:

* Sunil Abraham
Director of Policy at the Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore, India; and current board member of Mahiti Infotech
* Patricia Aufderheide
Professor, School of Communication, American University; director,
Center for Social Media at American University
* Warigia Bowman
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy Leadership,
University of Mississippi
* Fiorella De Cindio
Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science Department,
University of Milan
* Martha Fuentes-Bautista
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
* Stephanie Hankey/Marek Tuszynski (tentative)
Co-founders and directors, Tactical Technology Collective
* Lisa Nakamura (associate faculty)
Professor, Institute of Communication Research; Director, Asian
American Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Tapan Parikh
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of California
at Berkeley
* Tiago Peixoto
Researcher, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
* Alison Powell
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
* Andrew Rasiej
Founder of Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident
* Nicholas Reville
Executive director, Participatory Culture Foundation
* Scott Robinson
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
* Jorge Martins Rosa
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon
* Christian Sandvig
Associate Professor, Department of Communication; faculty member,
Project on Public Policy and Advanced Communication Technology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Doug Schuler
Program Director, Public Sphere Project, an initiative of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility
* Leslie Regan Shade
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University
* Maripaz Silva (associate faculty)
* Laura Stein
Assistant Professor, Radio-Television-Film Department, University of
Texas at Austin
* Siva Vaidhyanathan
Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Media Studies and Law;
Fellow, Institute for the Future of the Book
* Katrin Verclas
Co-founder and editor of Mobileactive.org

The International School on Digital Transformation is a program of the University of Texas Austin-Portugal Colaboratory, or CoLab. The co-directors of the School are Drs. Sharon Strover and Karen Gustafson, and Gary Chapman, of the University of Texas at Austin.

The School will be held at the Rectory, a building of the University of Porto in the center of the city. Student housing will consist of nearby hotels, and the cost of the School will include a shared hotel room, two meals per day (breakfast and dinner) and the program itself. The week will also include a cultural activity offered to all School participants.

The estimated cost of the International School on Digital Transformation will be between €300 and €400. Travel to Porto, Portugal, is not supported; students must find and pay for their own travel to Porto.

The student application, and more specific information for students, are available at this link.

Porto, Portugal

Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996, Porto is known for its spectacular architecture and medieval alleyways, and it is also compact, allowing visitors to easily explore the central city on foot. Porto is on the Douro River and also near the Atlantic Ocean. It is famous for its port wine from the inland Portuguese wine region along the Douro River valley.

During the free afternoons, students and teachers may explore the sidewalk café culture on Santa Catarina Street, a nearby pedestrian shopping area, or walk across the Dom Luís I Bridge spanning the Douro River to the promenade, restaurants, and port houses in Vila Nova de Gaia, directly opposite central Porto. Short river cruises may be taken in barcos rabelos, flat-bottomed boats traditionally used to ferry shipments of port wine.

While Porto is famous for its ancient Roman ramparts and Gothic churches, it is also home to the Casa da Música concert hall, a superb example of modern architecture, finished in 2005, that has become an icon of the city. The Serralves Museum is a major cultural institution which hosts rotating exhibitions of contemporary art and which features a world-class garden.

In the late evenings, Porto hosts a thriving clubbing culture, and the city’s nightspots attract DJs from around the world.

Porto has an international airport and is also served by trains from Lisbon and from Spain. By train, Porto is approximately three and a half hours north of Lisbon.

Please direct questions regarding the program to Karen Gustafson, at kegustafson@mail.utexas.edu.

Labor Center alums Edgar Chen, Jenn Doe, John Donahoe, Steve Linsky, TeriMerisotis, Amanda Plumb, Harream Purdie, Penny Schwarz, and ULA student LouHmielski will join STEPC, Women’s Studies and Afro-Am alums for thisnetworking event.

Making Connections: Life After UMass - A Student/Alumni Networking Event

Thursday, April 2, 2009 . 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Student Union . Cape Cod Lounge

UMass Amherst grads from Afro-American Studies, the Labor Center, STPEC and Women’s Studies return to campus to meet students and offer internship and career information.

Come meet organizers, teachers, advisors, health care professionals, human service workers, researchers, managers, lawyers, business people, and more.

Participants and organizations include: (partial list)

• The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
• Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA)
• Research and Information Services, W. E. B. DuBois Library, UMass Amherst
• Naturopathic Physician (private practice)
• Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes
• Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
• Department of Economics University of Massachusetts
• Girls Incorporated of Holyoke
• Service Employees International Union
• Sociology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women
• Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
• Boston EITC Coalition (Living Wage)
• Local 34, Federation of University Employees
• Social Documentary.net
• Multicultural Affairs, Saint Michael’s College
• Freelance journalist/publicist
• Attorney
• Mediator. . .and more!

Sponsored by Career Services www.umass.edu/careers

Come for the yummy food, stay for the career connections.Stop by for a few minutes or stay the whole time. Open to all.

For information contact the cosponsors:
W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
www.umass.edu/afroam 545-2751
The Labor Center www.umass.edu/lrrc 545-5907
STPEC www.umass.edu/stpec 545-0043
Women’s Studies www.umass.edu/wost 545-1922

d’Errico is one of the founders of the Legal Studies Department. He has authored many influential texts in the field of critical legal studies, including Corporate Personality and Human Commodification, an article which dissects the idea, origins, and effects of corporate personhood in American law.

He will be giving a talk entitled “Indigenous People and the United States: A Manifesto.”

The event flyer can be accessed here.

Diane Curtis, the prelaw advisor, runs a blog full of information that legal studies majors might find interesting. So we’re importing a feed of her posts direct into this blog. When you see a post written by “Diane”, that’s from her blog. Click the title to travel back to her blog.

There’s also a direct link to her blog in the “Contributors” category on the right hand navbar.

Neat huh? Thanks Diane!

Download it in PDF form here.