The University of California, Irvine is organizing a great conference titled "New Media, Technology and Humanities." (February 17-18, 2006).
The focus is on three main themes: Media Archaeology, Digital Humanities, and Gaming. The speaker list is impressive. Among the others are Lev Manovich, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Mark Hansen, John Seely Brown, Tara McPherson, and Stanford Humanities Lab's Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood.
More information is available here.