Extra Credit: Event

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue 

Fri Feb 10, 2012, 4:00 pm  |  English Lounge (Room 4406)

[8]What Do Keywords Do?
    Links:
      8. http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/What-Do-Keywords-Do

Lecture: Bruce Burgett, Glenn Hendler

  The _Oxford English Dictionary_ defines "keywords" as words that are of
  "great importance or significance." In the digital universe, keywords
  organize vast quantities of complex information. These words are nodal
  points in many of today's most dynamic and vexed discussions of political
  and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. Drawing on their
  experience editing _Keywords for American Cultural Studies_, _Bruce Burgett
  _(Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington) and _Glenn
  Hendler_ (English and American Studies, Fordham University) will discuss the
  critical and creative potential of keywords to catalyze interdisciplinary
  conversation. This a public program connected to “[9]Revolutionizing
  American Studies.” For further information on this and other Seminars in the
  Humanities, see http://centerforthehumanities.org/seminars.
    Links:
      9. http://centerforthehumanities.org/seminars/revolutionizing-american-studies

  _Co-sponsored by the Revolutionizing American Studies Seminar and the PhD
  Program in English_