New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane
New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane
November 7 - 9, 2007
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
NMC Regional Conferences are one-of-a-kind events, each very much a reflection of the host institution. In fall 2007, the NMC comes to New Orleans for a very special regional event that will be held on the campus of Tulane University and hosted by Technology Services.
Photos from the Tulane University web site rotating images collection.
New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane
This year the New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane is scheduled for November 7 - 9. As the title suggests, the conference will be held in New Orleans at Tulane University; our hosts are our friends at Technology Services. Tulane is one of the country's leading educational and research institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane offers degrees in architecture, business, law, liberal arts, medicine, public health and tropical medicine, the sciences and engineering, and social work.
Attendees will enjoy visiting the historic city of New Orleans while institutions from the Southwest region and beyond visit Tulane University. Hotel accomodations have been secured at the Marriott Hotel on Canal Street, in the heart of the famous French Quarter. The conference events will take place in the newly renovated Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life.
Registration and Fees
Registration includes entrance to all conference activities as well as to all receptions and meal events. Registrations received on or before Friday, November 2 qualify for the Early Registration rate. After November 2, you will be required to pay the late fee. Registration will open in mid-October.
All attendees, including presenters, must register for the conference and pay the registration fee.
Conference Program
New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane
NMC Regional Conferences are a one-of-a-kind event, each very much a reflection of the host institution. In fall 2007, the NMC will be in New Orleans for a very special regional event to be held on the campus of Tulane University and hosted by Technology Services.
Conference Theme
The theme of the NMC’s series of regional conferences has traditionally been “New Challenges … New Ideas” and in past years that has always been interpreted as the challenges we face with new media — its applications and uses, helping campuses stay innovative — and the regional conferences have always showcased best practices in response to these challenges.
This year, the challenges still faced by the citizens of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina provide a backdrop to the regional conference that redefines every aspect of that theme. In a city known for its art and culture, the myriad stories of New Orleans’s courage and rebirth in the face of crisis have drawn deeply from the well of new media. These stories will be woven through the conference like threads in a tapestry, as we examine the role of new media in community.
Instead of looking at how to meet the challenges we face with new media, we will look to how new media has become a tool that not only has helped communities meet unprecedented challenges, but indeed one that allows those compelling stories to be broadly told, in ways that serve to inform, enrich, and strengthen those communities. Our colelctive exploration will focus around these three areas:
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Art, Music, and New Media: New technologies offer us not only new ways to work and to learn, but also new ways to create. This track will explore some of the unique modes of expression made possible by new media, the methods and tools of their creation, and the cultural implications of these intersections between art, music and technology. The impact of these developments on scholarship and discussions around new creative works in these areas are especially encouraged in this track.
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New Media and the Community Voice: As just one example, the impact of bloggers reporting from New Orleans in the days following Katrina has arguably changed the face of news coverage forever. This track will showcase what's new and different about today's digital technologies and how individuals and communities around the world are using them to address social issues and to build community.
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Digital Stories - The Power of One: Digital storytelling has never been more accessible, and the explosion of videos on YouTube and similar venues illustrates how important the idea of digital storytelling has become in today’s culture. This track will not only encourage sessions that cover the art and mechanics of digital storytelling, but will also provide a showcase for the ways in which digital storytelling is impacting teaching and learning.
Preliminary Conference Schedule
| Wednesday, November 7 | |
| 12:00 - 5:45 pm | Registration/Info Desk Open |
| 1:00 - 2:15 pm | Opening Plenary |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 - 4:00 pm | Conference Sessions |
| 4:00 - 4:30 pm | Break |
| 4:30 - 5:45 pm | Conference Sessions |
| 5:45 - 7:30 pm | Opening Reception Home of President & Mrs. Scott Cowen Sponsored by Tulane University |
| Thursday, November 8 | |
| 7:30 am - 5:15 pm | Registration/Info Desk Open |
| 7:30 - 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 9:45 am | Focused Panel Session |
| 9:45 - 10:15 am | Break |
| 10:15 - 11:30 am | Conference Sessions |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Luncheon - Keynote Presentation |
| 1:00 - 2:15 pm | Conference Sessions |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 - 4:00 pm | Conference Sessions |
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm | Break |
| 4:30 - 6:45 pm | Second Line & Reception Sponsored by Yale University |
| 6:45 - 7:30 pm | Concert of Electro-Acoustic Music led by Tae Hong Park |
| Friday, November 9 | |
| 8:30 am - noon | Registration/Info Desk Open |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:15 am | Conference Sessions |
| 10:45 am - noon | Closing Plenary |
See below the attached PDF for the conference program.
Keynote Presenters
Opening Plenary Keynote
Words and Music, Crafts and Costumes, Ritual and... Radio: The Power of Old Media in New Orleans
Nick Spitzer, American Routes
In a conference devoted to the wide and dazzling array of new media in relationship to intimatec community life in New Orleans and elsewhere, much of what may be extended in the classroom, broadcast or global networks comes from original human forms of expression. The implications of which are: pre-modern forms of artistic communication still speak to us, old modern forms like radio offer time-tested models of extending oral tradition and traditional aesthetics, and new media at their best often aim to recreate and create anew community experiences that we may feel are lost when the market-driven rush to new technology values form and efficiency over content.
Nick Spitzer is the host of American Routes , the radio program from New Orleans devoted to the sources and symbols of blues and jazz, country and gospel, roots rock and soul, as well as related ethnic, regional, popular and classical styles of the music and musicians that define the landscape of American vernacular culture. American Routes is co-produced by American Public Media and reaches nearly a million listeners nationwide each week on 250 stations. Nick is also known for cultural features on All Things Considered and Nightline, documentary CD recordings, and PBS films. Long involved in work with cultural creolization and African-French communities Spitzer served as the first Louisiana State Folklorist and then spent a decade at the Smithsonian—initially as senior folklife specialist and as artistic director for the Folk Masters concert series produced in collaboration with Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap, and the annual American Roots 4th of July concerts broadcast from the National Mall. He was appointed Mellon professor in the humanities at Tulane University and is currently professor of folklore and cultural conservation at the University of New Orleans. In 2005 Nick received the New Orleans’ Mayor’s Arts Award. A strong advocate for the cultural rebuilding of the city post-catastrophe, he was named Louisiana Humanist of the Year in 2006. This year he is a Guggenheim Fellow researching traditions of creativity in Louisiana Creole communities.
Luncheon Plenary Keynote
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz: Commitment to New Orleans
Suzan Jenkins, Loyola University
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance located on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans provides ongoing school and community jazz education programs to help strengthen the school system, provide employment for New Orleans musicians, attract displaced musicians living in other areas of the country back to their hometown, and unite the city’s jazz, arts, and cultural communities. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance program is the world’s most intensive graduate-level college jazz education program attracting top young jazz musicians from around the globe. During the announcement, the inaugural New Orleans class, performed alongside jazz legends Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and New Orleans native, Terence Blanchard who serves as the program’s artistic director.
Recently, Herbie Hancock, chairman of the Institute, made this comment about the Insitute’s mission, “New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz – and jazz is what made this city the place we know and love. With our “New Orleans Initiative” and a strong partnership with Loyola University, the City of New Orleans, and the New Orleans University Consortium, we’re working to keep jazz alive and vibrant in its home by bringing the next generation of great jazz musicians here to learn and by introducing jazz and its history to young people throughout the city. We know that when jazz flourishes, New Orleans will flourish too.”
Learn more about this innovative program from Suzan Jenkins, Senior Vice President of the New Orleans Initiative, herself an award winning jazz musician and producer, with more than 20 years in the industry.
Closing Plenary Keynote
Not Since the Great Depression: The Post Katrina Documentary Impulse and New Media
Michael Mizell-Nelson, University of New Orleans, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Assembling content for an online database project regarding hurricanes Katrina and Rita provides daily opportunities to assess personal and community losses throughout the Gulf Coast. It also puts one into contact with the vast array of documentation efforts flourishing along the coast, particularly New Orleans, which serves as this catastrophe’s “Ground Zero.” Each individual’s story constitutes one invaluable piece in the immense debris field stretching from Texas to Alabama. New Media drives the documentation of the tragedies and ongoing recoveries; similarly, New Media must assist in making these invaluable materials accessible to both web surfers and scholars.
Michael Mizell-Nelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Orleans and the Content and Outreach Lead for the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. His research interests center upon the social and cultural history of New Orleans and 20th century US history. He is completing his book-length study of race relations in Jim Crow New Orleans. A background in broadcast video documentary production includes the feature-length Streetcar Stories and several documentary shorts, such as Vintage Drag, a documentary on 1930s and 40s female impersonators.
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- Blog Archive " Panel #3 (reflections)
But mainly I’m glad to have finally connected with the New Media Consortium. My old boss urged me to check them out some time before Katrina, but after the storm I was preoccupied. - The I-10 Witness Project
The I-10 Witness continues to interview New Orleans residents about their storm related experiences. - Ovolab - Phlink
As a voicemail system, Ovolab Phlink plays a greeting and records voicemail messages, keeping them on your Mac for later playback. - Open Sky Jazz
- Jazz in America
Thelonious Monk - Fine Art Giclee Printing - Bair Art Editions, Reproductions of Artwork, Photography
- Cone Editions Press - Home Page
- the Creatures in my Head - illustration and artwork by Andrew Bell
- LightWave® - Go Ahead, Make A Scene
- Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
- Creating Comic strips from your photos
- 741.5 Comics - Five-Card Nancy?
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
- ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
- Penny Arcade! - The Spur Of The Moment
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2007 New Orleans Regional Conference Audio Collection
A number of the keynote and special sessions at the 2007 NMC Regional Conference were captured in audio and are available on the NMC web site's podcast collection. For your listening convenience, all of the audio segments from this conference are available here in a single player:
Registration
Registration
Registration is now open for 2007 New Orleans Regional Conference at Tulane!
Please use our online form to submit your conference registration. To access the registration form, you must have or will need to create an account on the NMC web site. If you have an NMC web site account and not already done so, log in now. Otherwise, you can create your own NMC account now that will allow you to submit your registration.
Be sure when logged in to edit your profile (via the My Account link on the left) so we have your correct mailing address, phone number, and contact information.
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Once you are logged into your NMC web account... Register Now for 2007 New Orleans NMC Regional Conference at Tulane
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To receive discounted registration rates, please register no later than Friday, November 2. Payments may be made by VISA, MasterCard, check or purchase order.
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Late |
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| NMC Member | $249 | $295 |
| Non-Member | $399 | $449 |
| Tulane Host | $199 | $249 |
| Student | $199 | $249 |
Please send payments to:
New Media Consortium
2499 S. Capital of Texas Highway
Bldg. A, Suite 202
Austin, TX 78746
If you have any questions regarding registration, please send an email to Nancy Reeves at nancy@nmc.org, or via phone at 512 445-4200.
Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals
Proposals for presentations were solicited beginning the first week of September through September 30 for the New Orleans Regional Conference to be held November 7 - 9, at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. NMC Regional Conferences are one-of-a-kind gatherings, each very much a reflection of the host institution.
Participants were invited to take part in one that promises to be truly exceptional, as the NMC comes to New Orleans for a very special regional event to be held on the campus of Tulane University.
Find complete information about the conference, including full details on travel and lodging, look to the links to the left or go to the main conference information.
Conference Tracks
We’re looking for ways in which new media is being used to bring people together, to inspire them, and to document the challenges they have faced and overcome. We’re also looking for ideas on how this can be done, model programs and projects, and examples that draw on the web, on video, on music, and images.
Proposals will be solicited to add the threads of stories from your communities, your campuses.
Proposals detailing best practices in new media are always welcome at NMC conferences, but ideas for sessions are especially encouraged within these three tracks:
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Art, Music, and New Media: New technologies offer us not only new ways to work and to learn, but also new ways to create. This track will explore some of the unique modes of expression made possible by new media, the methods and tools of their creation, and the cultural implications of these intersections between art, music and technology. The impact of these developments on scholarship and discussions around new creative works in these areas are especially encouraged in this track.
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New Media and the Community Voice: As just one example, the impact of bloggers reporting from New Orleans in the days following Katrina has arguably changed the face of news coverage forever. This track will showcase what's new and different about today's digital technologies and how individuals and communities around the world are using them to address social issues and to build community.
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Digital Stories - The Power of One: Digital storytelling has never been more accessible, and the explosion of videos on YouTube and similar venues illustrates how important the idea of digital storytelling has become in today’s culture. This track will not only encourage sessions that cover the art and mechanics of digital storytelling, but will also provide a showcase for the ways in which digital storytelling is impacting teaching and learning.
Participants were encouraged to submit a proposal for a session in one or more of these conference tracks.
Sessions can include demonstrations, panel discussions, and descriptions of exemplary projects or activities. Dialog, discussion, and interaction are the hallmarks of NMC events, as well as the pervasive use of new media. Proposals should include a paragraph about the approaches planned for the session, and a listing of any special needs or equipment that may be required for your session.
Submitting a Proposal
Our online form to submit proposals for conference sessions is now closed. To access this form, you must have or create an account on the NMC web site. If you have an NMC web site account and not already done so, log in now. Otherwise, you can create your own NMC account now that will allow you to submit your proposal.
Be sure when logged in to edit your profile (via the My Account link on the left) so we have your correct mailing address, phone number, and optionally a photo and brief bio.
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Once you are logged into your NMC web account... Submit a Session Proposal for the 2007 NMC Regional Conference
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For full consideration, proposals should be submitted no later than September 30, 2007, as the review and selection of session proposals begins on that date.
Questions or ideas for potential sessions should be directed to Rachel Smith, rachel@nmc.org, or via phone at 512 445-4200.
Accomodations and Travel
New Orleans Information Links
- New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau
- City of New Orleans
- New Orleans French Quarter
- New Orleans Online
- More on New Orleans
Lodging Information
Attendees at the New Orleans Regional NMC Conference at Tulane will stay at the New Orleans Marriott located in the French Quarter. Transportation will be provided for attendees from the hotel to campus for the conference, which are approximately five miles apart.
New Orleans Marriott Hotel in the French Quarter
555 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 USA
Phone: 1-504-581-1000
Fax: 1-504-523-6755
Reservations toll-free: 1-888-364-1200
Hotel web site
Special room rates of $169 for single/double occupancy have been secured for meeting attendees at the New Orleans Marriott in the French Quarter. When making your hotel reservation please be sure to mention that you are with the "New Media Consortium" group to receive the special rates. To ensure the special rates and room availability, please make your hotel reservation no later than Friday, October 19, 2007.
Please note: The Marriott Hotel has extended the hotel cut-off deadline to Friday, November 2. Call now to make your reservations!
New Orleans Marriott Hotel is a full service hotel and provides the following guest services:
- Newly renovated French Quarter hotel suites and rooms located in the heart of downtown New Orleans.
- New Revive® bedding package featuring plush down-filled comforters and cotton-rich linens.
- Amenities include cable TV, in-room coffee, and complimentary newspaper delivered to your door.
- Spectacular views of the Mississippi River from your New Orleans hotel suite or room.
- All rooms fully equipped with high-speed Internet access ($14.95 per day) and a work desk for business travelers.
- Restaurant and coffee house with room service available.
- Easy access to New Orleans attractions, including Bourbon Street, from your French Quarter suite.
- Daily valet parking is $30 per day.
Traveling to New Orleans
- Airline Travel
Information about airlines and the New Orleans airport can be found at Louis Armstrong International Airport - New Orleans Weather
Sponsorship
2007 NMC Regional Conference
The 2007 NMC Regional Conference was held on November 7 - 9 at Tulane University in New Orleands, Lousiana. The following sponsorship opportunities were available for special recognition.
Wednesday Night Reception (Sponsored by Tulane University)
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.
Thursday Luncheon with Keynote Presentation ($2,500)
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.
Thursday Night Reception (Sponsored by Yale University, The Center for Media & Instructional Innovation)
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.
Continental Breakfast (2 of these at $1,500 each)
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.
Refreshment Break (2 of these at $1,000 each)
Includes: right to display signage or banner with company logo at the event; special recognition in the conference program; special recognition on the conference website; special recognition at the conference.
Sponsorship is on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are interested in participating as a sponsor, please call Nancy Reeves at (512) 445-4200 or email nancy@nmc.org.