The Digital Humanities Observatory will hold a symposium in Second Life, “The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint,” on Tuesday March 31, 2009. The day-long event will feature talks by John Fitzgerald (UCC), Ruth Hegarty (RIA), John Lavagnino, (NUIG), and Brad Scott (Publishing Consultant).

Full details can be found here: http://dho.ie/irishimprint

The DHO, in conjunction with King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College London, and the Informatica Umanistica programme at the University of Pisa, will broadcast the event. Please join the symposium for talks in the morning and a breakout session in the afternoon (there will be a separate breakout session held for second life attendees).

Meet us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Digital%20Humanities%20/132/19/36
from 10.00-16.00 (Dublin time; to get to the event, paste the URL  above into your browser, hit return, and when the Second Life page opens click on ‘Teleport Now’. It will open SL and teleport you to the location)