BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // January 19, 2011


[TUESDAY 1/25] Berkman Luncheon Series: "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites" with Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/zuckerman_roberts)

[WEDNESDAY 1/26] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group, featuring Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/01/berkman)

[SAVE THE DATE 2/1] Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde on his new book, "Common as Air" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/02/hyde)

Special note: The deadline for the call for papers for the "Rethink Music" conference is this Monday, 1/24: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6456.


[TUESDAY 1/25] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS
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1/25/11, 12:30 pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Topic: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites
Guests: Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York

Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York will discuss the recently released Berkman Center report on "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites."

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/2011/01/zuckerman_roberts


[WEDNESDAY 1/26] CYBERSCHOLARS
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1/26/11, 6:00pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St. 2nd Floor
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.

This month's presenters will include:Brian Kernighan on "What Should an Educated Person Know about Computers?"; Yanni Loukissas on "Visualizing Human Presence Tools for the Social Study of Human, Remote, and Autonomous Operations"; and Bryan Choi on "The Anonymous Internet".

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2011/01/berkman


[2/1] LEWIS HYDE on COMMON AS AIR
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2/1/11, 7:00 pm, Harvard Humanities Center / Barker Center
RSVP is required to ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Topic: Comon as Air
Guests: Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde, Berkman Center Fellow & Professor at Kenyon College, will discuss his new book, "Common as Air."

Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde is currently at work on a book about our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to produce.

A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Robert Darnton's review of Common as Air in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Darnton-t.html

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/02/hyde


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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1/19: "WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn’t?" featuring Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain // Churchill Club, San Francisco (http://www.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=892)


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.

-JOHN PALFREY on "The Path of Legal Information" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/11/palfrey)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: TIM WU on THE MASTER SWITCH (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu)


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