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Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities
Established in 1993 with a generous gift from David B. Stern and Nancy Guitteau, the Kritikos Professorship brings to the university and to the state distinguished scholars, critics, and leaders in the humanities. This lectureship was created to foster the education of UO students and faculty, and to promote intelligent, critical, public discourse across Oregon. Kritikos Professors are known for speaking their minds, even if what they have to say is currently unfashionable. Kritikos lectures are published each year and are available through the Humanities Center.
Past Kritikos professors have included John Shelby Spong, Louis Menand, Richard Rodriguez, Kenneth Miller, Robert Alter, William Kennedy, Milton Viorst, and Victor Davis Hanson.
2009-10 Kritikos Professor in the Humanities, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library
"Digitize, Democratize: Google, Libraries, and the Future of Books"
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30 p.m.
175 Knight Law Center, UO Campus"Digitize, Democratize: Google, Libraries, and the Future of Books"
Friday, November 13, 2009
5:30 p.m.
UO in Portland,
White Stag Block, 70 N. W. Couch St.The legal battles surrounding Google Book Search raise basic questions about the digital future facing all of us--not just authors and publishers but ordinary readers and everyone concerned with access to information. Research libraries should have a say in shaping that future. Digitization gives them an opportunity to democratize knowledge by opening their collections to the outside world. But how can they share their intellectual wealth when commercial firms want to market it? What will be the place of printed books in a world where most works will be "born digital" and read in new ways by "digital natives"? Libraries are developing strategies to cope with these issues, which are vital to our country's future and deserve widespread discussion before the general public.
Complete list of previous Kritikos Professors
updated: 10/23/09
