Brian Kerr

Event announcement. There’s an empty page for the conference, with details having just arrived via e-mail:

Annual UMInDS Spring Conference
April 4, 2008 Pendleton Room Michigan Union

Disability and War

1:00 pm Poster Session by UM Students and Faculty

2:00 pm Panel: Disability at War

• Rick Briggs, Brain Injury Association of Michigan “Traumtic Brain Injury — The Signature Wound of the War on Terror”
• Sally Chivers, University of Trent “Disabled Veterans Soldier On: Canadians Coming Home from Afghanistan”
• Nina Berman, Documentary Photographer “Purple Hearts“

3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session Continued

4:00 pm Keynote Address Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
U Illinois Chicago/ Temple University
“The Social Romance of Reintegration: Returning Veterans Films and the Forging of U.S. Disability Collectives”

Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
For information contact Carrie Baker at 734 647-6251 or mcarrie@umich.edu

(tags: accessible april 4 2008 conference disability events umich uminds war)

From Community and Privacy by Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander, partying like it’s 1965:

Until one stops using popular or generalized words to describe specific objects and events, one will continue to be deceived by the associations with them and will fail to arrive at the essential functional aspect of things and places that is the planner’s actual concern in problem — analysis and design.

(tags: analysis arrival aspects concerns cybernetics design essence events failure function functional aspect objects places things words)

Arbcamp was today: here are some pictures. About 80 people attended, and I think it was a good investment of a day in about eighty ways.

There’s much to say — and more to do —
    but for, now, let “thank you” suffice.

(tags: annarbor arbcamp events goodnight openspace thanks)

October 27 2007 — you’re invited — arbcamp.org — clickthrough urgently

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Kaliya is putting together this event:

The She’s Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved.

It is designed to provide women who self-identify as geeky and who are engaged in various technology-focused disciplines with a gathering space in which they can exchange skills and discuss ideas and form community across and within disciplines.

If you’re in the lesser rustbelt area and interested, I can put you in touch with a few Ann Arbor area folks who were thinking about making the trip — in which case you could begin your week with She’s Geeky and end it by telling us about what happened at ArbCamp that weekend!

(tags: events invitations mountainview october 22 2007 shesgeeky)