Elizabeth Losh - Public Lectures

HACKTIVISM AND THE HUMANITIES: PROGRAMMING PROTEST IN THE ERA OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSITY
Digital Humanities 2009
University of Maryland
June 24, 2009

TOWN HALL IV
Computers and Writing
University of California, Davis
June 21, 2009

Assessing Technology Objectives in First-Year Writing Courses
Computers and Writing
University of California, Davis
June 19, 2009

PLAYING AT GOVERNMENT
State of Play
New York Law School
June 19, 2009

FROM THE CROWD TO THE CLOUD: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
The Berkman Center, Harvard University
May 5, 2009

PUTTING THE CLASSROOM IN THE COMPUTER: THE RHETORIC OF THE OPEN COURSEWARE MOVEMENT
Popular Culture Association
New Orleans, LA
April 10, 2009

NAUGHT'S HAD, ALL SPENT: THE ARDEN FAILURE AND THE CHALLENGES OF LITERATURE VIDEOGAMES
The Serious Games Summit at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2009)
San Francisco, CA
March 23, 2009

COMPOSING FOR THE SMALL SCREEN: RHETORICAL INSTRUCTION AND ONLINE VIDEO PUBLICS
Conference on College Composition and Communication
San Francisco, CA
March 13, 2009

MAIL AWAY: WAR CORRESPONDENCE AT HOME AND ONLINE
College Art Association
Los Angeles, CA
February 27, 2009

IN POLITE COMPANY: RULES OF PLAY IN FIVE FACEBOOK GAMES
ACM ACE
Yokohama, California
December 5, 2008

TV FOR ONE: TEACHING WRITING IN THE AGE OF YOUTUBE
The Future of Writing Conference
University of California, Irvine
November 7, 2008

TAKING IT TO THE STREETS: URBAN CIVILITY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES
American Studies Association
Albuquerque, New Mexico
October 16, 2008

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?: THE BAKED PROFESSOR, THE RUNAWAY RÉSUMÉ, AND OTHER CAUTIONARY TALES OF THE DIGITAL CAMPUS
USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy
September 9, 2008

THE FOURTH WALL: CAN OPEN SOURCE DO VIRTUAL REALITY?
Computers & Writing Conference
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
May 23, 2008

GAMES WITH PUBLICS: CREATING PLAY EXPERIENCES THAT FOSTER COLLECTIVE ACTION
DigiPen, Redmond Washington
April 11, 2008

THE PLAY'S THE THING: THE ARDEN PROJECT AND THE DILEMMAS OF THE SERIOUS GAMES MOVEMENT
Play: Toward a Critical Concept Concept
University of California, Irvine
April 4, 2008

HACKTIVISM FOR THE MASSES: WIKISCANNER AND THE NORTHWEST BOARDING PASS GENERATOR
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference
San Francisco, CA
March 20, 2008

IS AN 'ACADEMIC BLOG' AN OXYMORON?: A PUBLIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN FACULTY BLOGGERS AND STUDENT BLOGGERS
Humantiech, The University of California, Irvine
October 31, 2007

BLOGSPATS AND VISUAL ARGUMENTS: SEX, RACE, AND PHOTOSHOP
Association of Internet Researchers
Vancouver, Canada
October 19, 2007

ASSEMBLY LINES: WEB GENERATORS AS HYPERTEXTS
ACM Hypertext 2007 Conference
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
September 11, 2007

THE BIRTH OF THE VIRTUAL CLINIC: THE VIRTUAL TERRORISM RESPONSE ACADEMY AS SERIOUS GAME AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPACE
SIGGRAPH Sandbox Symposium
San Diego, CA.
August 4, 2007

INSTRUMENTALISM AND THE ETHICS OF VIDEOGAME PLAY: THE TACTICAL IRAQI CONTROVERSY

The Philosophy of Computer Games
Reggio Emilia, Italy
January 26, 2007

THE PALACE OF MEMORY: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND TOURS OF DUTY IN TACTICAL IRAQI AND VIRTUAL IRAQ
Joint International Conference on Cyber-Games and Interactive Entertainment
Perth, Australia,
December 6, 2006

ON THE GROUND WITH TACTICAL IRAQI
Serious Games Summit
Washington, D.C.
October 30, 2006

SOCIAL MARKETING, PUBLIC RHETORIC, AND THE BRANDING OF A DISEASE
Selling Us to Ourselves: Is Social Marketing Effective HIV PreventionPanel
New York, NY
September 26, 2006

MAKING THINGS PUBLIC: DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT-FUNDED VIDEOGAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATIONS
ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox Videogame Symposium
Boston, MA
July 28, 2006

IN COUNTRY WITH TACTICAL IRAQI: TRUST, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE LEARNING IN A MILITARY VIDEO GAME Digital Arts and Culture 2005
Copenhagen, Denmark
December 2, 2005

THE NEW HETEROGLOSSIA OF BLOGS AND WIKIS
Knowledge or Information? Blogs, Wikis, and Listservs
Humanitech, the University of California, Irvine
November 10, 2005

METAL DETECTORS AND DRUG TESTS: PRAGMATISM AND SKEPTICISM ABOUT PLAGIARISM DETECTION SOFTWARE
Originality, Imitation & Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplary Conference
The Sweetland Writing Center, the University of Michigan
September 24, 2005

USING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM TO SUPPORT TEACHING AND RESEARCH
READEX Symposium and Workshop
Chester, Vermont
April 29, 2005

VIRTUALPOLITIK: FOSTERING ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION IN THE S.P.I.D.E.R. PROJECT
Center for Studies in Higher Education
University of California, Berkeley
November 18, 2004

Guest Teaching

COUNTERFACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Arts - 65A
University of California, Irvine
January 28, 2009

GAMES AND APPARENT AUTONOMIES
German 230
University of California, Irvine
January 14, 2009

YOU TOO CAN BE FAMOUS
University of Southern California
July 15, 2008

BUSH'S MEMEX: COLD WAR TECHNOLOGIES AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Informatics 131: Human-Computer Interaction
The University of California, Irvine
July 1, 2008

FAILURE IN GAMES
Computer Games III
The University of California, Irvine
April 24, 2008

THE RHETORIC OF INFORMATION SCIENCE 1945-1949
The Social Analysis of Computerization
Information and Computer Science, the University of California, Irvine
July 6, 2006

WRITING IN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
English 398 Graduate Seminar : Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
University of California, Irvine
November 22, 2004

Workshops and Colloquies

CREATING AND SUSTAINING COURSE PRESENCE
University of California, Irvine
March 5, 2009

ONLINE PEDAGOGICAL SPACES
University of Southern California
January 30, 2009

CAREERS IN NEW MEDIA AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES
University of California, Santa Barbara
October 24, 2008

THE F-WORD: LEARNING FROM FAILURE IN SERIOUS GAMES
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
September 18, 2008

ACADEMIC HONESTY COLLOQUY
Campus Writing Coordinator and the Division of Undergraduate Education
University of California, Irvine
Mayl 1, 2008 

UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP (LOMA TECH TALK)
The University of California, Irvine
April 21, 2008

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
TechExpo 2008, The University of California, Irvine
February 5, 2008

DIY TEXTS
Humanitech, The University of California, Irvine
January 31, 2008

TEACHING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA: BLOGS, WIKIS, YOUTUBE, AND SECOND LIFE
The University of California, Irvine
March 21, 2007

PODCASTING
Humanitech, The University of California, Irvine
March 14, 2007