BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
February 17, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

Four great events next week, and you're invited! In addition to talks in our ongoing Law Lab and Berkman Luncheon series on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, we're hosting two special events. On Monday, 2/22, Jonathan Zittrain will explore "Minds For Sale" -- how a range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. And on Thursday, 2/25, Lawrence Lessig will participate in a Wireside Chat on "Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video," an event the Open Video Alliance will be simulcasting from Harvard Law School to over a dozen venues across the country. We hope you'll join us for one or more of these events. Bring your friends and colleagues too!

[1] [MONDAY 2/22/10] Law Lab Speaker Series: "Whither Blind Justice? Effects of Physiognomy on Judicial Decisions" with Leslie Zebrowitz, Brandeis University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/02/zebrowitz)

[2] [MONDAY 2/22/10] Berkman Special Event: Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for Sale" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain)

[3] [TUESDAY 2/23/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Augmented Museum" with Jeffrey Schnapp, Berkman Fellow and Pierotti Chair in Italian and Comparative Literature at Stanford (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/schnapp)

[4] [THURSDAY 2/25/10] Berkman Special Event: Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig: Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/lessig)

[MONDAY] LAW LAB SPEAKER SERIES on EFFECTS OF PHYSIOGNOMY ON JUDICIAL DECISIONS
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2/22/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Whither Blind Justice? Effects of Physiognomy on Judicial Decisions
Guest: Leslie Zebrowitz, Brandeis University

Although we value ‘blind justice’, judges and juries are not blind to the physical appearance of defendants. Moreover, research shows that peoples’ facial appearance influences impressions of their honesty and judgments of their culpability, effects that have been shown to bias decisions in the courtroom. I will discuss research that documents these effects, placing them into a theoretical framework.

About Leslie:

Leslie Zebrowitz is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations in the Department of Psychology at Brandeis University.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/02/zebrowitz

This talk is part of the The Psychology and Economics of Trust and Honesty Speaker Series, led by Berkman Fellow Judith Donath and hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Law Lab. For more information, see this page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5831.

[MONDAY 2/22] MINDS FOR SALE with JONATHAN ZITTRAIN
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2/22/10, 5:30 PM ET, Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Registration Required ($5): http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain

Topic: Minds for Sale
Guest: Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society

The Harvard Alumni Association and the Berkman Center invite you to join Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School Professor and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center, for an evening of discussion on “Minds for Sale.”

Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace.

What are some of the issues arising as armies of thinkers are recruited by the thousands and millions? A fascinating (and non-scare-mongering) view is offered of a future in which nearly any mental act can be bought and sold.

About Jonathan:

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000.

Zittrain's research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE AUGMENTED MUSEUM
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2/23/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: The Augmented Museum
Guest: Jeffrey Schnapp, Berkman Fellow and Pierotti Chair in Italian and Comparative Literature at Stanford

From Jeffrey:

My talk is concerned with my ongoing work as a scholar/curator and technologist on the notion of the augmented museum. The phrase "augmented museum" refers to three complementary developments:

--a digital era re-imagining of the traditional bricks-and-mortar museum that explores the possibilities of linking interior exhibition spaces to the exterior environment either via innovative partnerships between institutions or the curation of public spaces as an extended feature of museum-based exhibitions

--new approaches to the display of physical collections that allow for enhanced access, interactivity, and interaction with the scholarly community

--experimentation with "bottom up" participatory models of museum-based education as a complement to traditional "top down" approaches

My talk will map the overall contours of the augmented museum and look at a concrete experiment: The Tunnels, a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space.

About Jeffrey:

Jeffrey Schnapp is a Fellow at the Berkman Center and occupies the Pierotti Chair in Italian and Comparative Literature at Stanford, where he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab in 2000 with the aim of creating a transdisciplinary platform devoted to testing out future scenarios for the arts and humanities in a post-print world.

SHL is a hybrid institution, a kind of Media/Tech Lab wedded to a Humanities & Arts research center, devoted to thinking outside of the box, to experimenting with public forms of scholarship and culture, to exploring the interstices between research and art practice, to developing models and tools for collaboration and teamwork, and to providing the opportunity for students at all levels to learn through making and doing.

His current research interests lie in the domain of mixed reality approaches to scholarship, curatorship, and cultural programming and in a broad range of challenges placed under the general banner of "animating the archive." During the course of the 2009-2010 academic year, with support from the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, and with museum partners on both sides of the Atlantic, Jeffrey's research group is launching a new open source virtual world entitled Sirikata.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/schnapp

[THURSDAY 2/25] WIRESIDE CHAT with LAWRENCE LESSIG: FAIR USE, POLITICS, AND ONLINE VIDEO
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2/25/10, 6:00PM ET, Austin North Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
RSVP is required for those attending in person via the form on this page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/lessig
This event will be webcast live
Co-organized by the Open Video Alliance (OVA)

Free and Open to the Public

Topic: Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig: Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video
Guest: Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

On February 25, 2010, Lawrence Lessig will deliver a talk on fair use and politics in online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.

In conjunction with the Cambridge event, OVA is hosting screenings in cities around the world. Many of these screenings will be followed by special presentations. In New York, check out a curation by the ReMixed Media Festival. In Los Angeles, take part in a Critical Commons workshop. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out a live audiovisual demonstration by Eclectic Method at Stanford Law School. For more details, or to host your own event, visit http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.

Lessig's talk will explore copyright in a digital age, and the importance of a doctrine like fair use for free expression on the Internet. Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption.

If you have questions or comments, or if you'd like to host your own event, please email us at conference@openvideoalliance.org.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/lessig

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 2/24-26: Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy // Featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain and Berkman Fellow Julie Cohen // New School, NY (http://www.socres.org/limitingknowledge/)

[2] 2/25: Dilemmas of Privacy and Knowledge, a lecture by Berkman Faculty Associate Harry Lewis // Cornell University (http://www.ucpl.cornell.edu/)

[3] 3/6: Gov 2.0 Camp New England // Harvard Kennedy School of Government (http://gov20ne.eventbrite.com/)

[4] 3/10: OnCopyright 2010 Conference // Copyright Clearance Center (http://www.oncopyright2010.com/)

[5] 3/12: Cloud Computing Conference // Berkeley Center for Law & Technology // Berkeley, CA (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/cloudcomputing/about.html)

[6] 3/19-3/21: LibrePlanet Conference // Harvard Science Center (http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010)

[7] 3/26: Fourth Law and Information Society Symposium: Hate Versus Democracy on the Internet // Center on Law & Information Policy (http://law2.fordham.edu/ihtml/cal-2uwcp-calendar_viewitem.ihtml?idc=1032...)

The Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference has extended its deadline for proposals to March 1 (http://www.cfp2010.org/submissions/)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

-Berkman Luncheon Series with JURE LESCOVEC on Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/02/leskove...)

-Radio Berkman 142: On and Out with MARY GRAY and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman142)

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

4/30-5/1: ROFLCon II at MIT (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon)

6/28-6/30: COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & the commons/cyberspace (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5608)

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