CIS 2014 – Department Sessions
“Technology and the Future of Being Human,” is
the theme for Hope’s 2014 Critical Issues
Symposium.
At CIS, we embody our commitment to open inquiry
and civil discourse, and to do so, guided by the
highest standards of intellectual integrity and in a
spirit of Christian love. As always, the Critical Issues
Symposium seeks to enhance discernment,
understanding and cooperation for all constituencies
of Hope College about a topic of vital importance to
our global society.
This year’s CIS program will be held on September
23-24, 2014, dates which will come up quickly after
classes begin. Our two keynote speakers are Douglas
Rushkoff and Gloria Mark.
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, as well as a
dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be
Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc. and the novel Ecstasy Club. He wrote the graphic novels
Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of
Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. Rushkoff earned his PhD in New Media and Digital
Culture from Utrecht University with a dissertation entitled Monopoly Moneys: The media
environment of corporatism and the player's way out. He graduated magna cum laude from
Princeton University, received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a
post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, a Fulbright award to
lecture on narrative in New Zealand, and a Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and
economics around the world.
Gloria Mark is a professor in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine.
Her research focuses on the studying the impact of digital technology in real-world contexts.
Her current projects include studying precision tracking of digital media use, mood and stress
among information workers and the Millennial generation, the use of ICTs in environments
disrupted by conflict, and workplace social media. She received her PhD in Psychology from
Columbia University. Prior to joining UCI in 2000, she worked at the German National
Research Center for Information Technology (GMD, now Fraunhofer Institute) and has been
a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM. In 2006 she received a Fulbright
scholarship where she worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. She has
published over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top conferences and journals in the fields of
Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. She has been the
technical program chair for the ACM CSCW’12, ACM CSCW'06, and ACM GROUP’05
conferences, and is on the editorial board of ACM TOCHIand Human-Computer Interaction.
Her work has also appeared in the popular press such as The New York Times, the BBC,
NPR, Time, andThe Wall Street Journal.
Department-sponsored sessions have proven to be a popular part of the CIS program since
they were introduced in 2004. In these sessions, departments focus on the issue at hand in a
way specific to their disciplines. Though designed for Hope students, department events are
open to the public and publicized for community members who are interested in your
discipline as it relates to the CIS theme. Department Sessions may begin as early as 2:15 pm
on Wednesday.
If you should have questions or need more information, please call me at your convenience.
As in previous years, I write to encourage you to consider hosting a departmental session as
part of the 2014 Critical Issues Symposium. We are right now seeking to plan the specifics of
these sessions. Please read the attached guidelines on how to create such a program and
receive partial funding.
The form can be accessed on the home page of the CIS web site.
http://www.hope.edu/cis/
Please note: The departments are responsible for all aspects of the session, including procuring a speaker,
handling travel arrangements, lodging, stipend, room reservation, catering (if needed), and other related
needs. However, Jasmine Lowell will gladly assist in making these arrangements and will post any relevant
information on the CIS web site and in the CIS program booklet. Please alert Jasmine of your plans, by
contacting her at lowell@hope.edu.
Application for Funding for CIS Departmental Session
(Return to lowell@hope.edu)
Hosting Department: _____________________________________________
Event Coordinator from Department: _______________________________
Phone: ____________________
E-mail: ___________________________
Room Reservation Number: _______________________ (please contact Events & Conferences
to reserve an appropriate space: the entire campus is already reserved for CIS but you must
ask for a specific location and AV/tech set-up for your session.)
Event Time: __________________________ (2:15 or later on Wed. is preferred)
General Description of Speaker/Event and connection to the CIS Theme:
(As your plans develop, please provide name as speaker would like it to appear in publicity and
title of the presentation to Jasmine Lowell before September 1, 2014.)
Budget for Event: (please list department contribution and expected expenses)
Amount Requested from CIS Committee: _____________________________
Committee Approval/Date: ________________________________________