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“Global Feminisms in Media Development” with Gabriela Martínez

Gabriela Martínez / photo by Jack Liu

CSWS Noon Talk: “Global Feminisms in Media Development” with Gabriela Martínez
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
12:00-1:00pm
Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Room

This talk looks at the different ways in which “feminism” gets to be articulated around the world, and in particular in the developing world, through media development. It also reveals how grassroots media development and other media discourses contribute to the empowerment of women and minority communities. Presented by Gabriela Martínez, associate director of CSWS and associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication.

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Game Studies, UT Dallas

We seek candidates for a position in game studies, design, or development, with an outstanding record of teaching and scholarship or game development. Candidates must hold an MFA or PhD at time of appointment. Areas of expertise may include but are not limited to digital game design, game programming, games and cognition, simulation, educational and serious games, interactive narrative, and new media studies. We welcome applications from candidates working both in the digital games industry and in academia. We are interested in candidates with a background in a variety of academic fields, including computer science, education and learning, the humanities, or cognitive science. The successful applicant will enhance and contribute to the numerous ongoing research projects in Arts and Technology.

Qualifications for Assistant or Associate Professor in Game Studies

  • PhD or MFA in appropriate field
  • A record of scholarly publication and/or funded research sufficient to merit appointment
  • Commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary education promoting the convergence of the arts and humanities with advanced digital technology and engineering
  • Professional experience highly desirable 

Selection process begins May 1, 2014 and continues until position is filled. The search committee will not consider incomplete applications. Qualified applicants could receive a joint appointment in one of the program’s partnering Schools. The appointment for the position will begin August 1, 2014. Indication of gender and ethnicity for affirmative action statistical purposes is requested as part of the application.

To apply for this position, go to http://provost.utdallas.edu/facultyjobs/pap130312
For further information concerning the School of Arts and Humanities and its programs, visit http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/

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Writing Internship for Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, NY

harvestworksJOB | NON-PROFIT:
Writing Internship For Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

Harvestworks offers several internships, in return for time worked, interns can enroll without charge in our internationally acclaimed classes, gain teaching experience through our “Interns Teach Interns” initiative, and receive access to lab equipment free of charge. Individual arrangements (e.g. in compliance with the requirements of your school) up to a full-time position, or positions for credit, can be made if necessary. We’re looking for a new intern who has writing experience and an interest in art/technology. The ideal intern will be great at finding new and useful content from around the web that would be of interest to the Harvestworks audience (e.g. new music, new media art, sound art, hacks, performance videos, new technologies and software, Internet culture, etc. …). The intern will then be in charge of daily blog posts, but will also have the opportunity to work on Harvestworks projects and performances.

Work from distance is not a problem but we strongly encourage NY-based people to meet at Harvestworks and become part of the community.

Ideal writers should already be active on social media platforms. We are looking for writers who are willing to build on our existing platform to connect and grow their audience as they develop their personal and professional skills, learn about art and technology, and become part of a larger art community. Most importantly, their passion must show through!

The deadline to apply is April 12, 2014.  See full details at http://www.harvestworks.org/writing-internship/

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Copyright and Media Pluralism in China

Copyright and Media Pluralism in ChinaFriday, April 18, 2014
8:30-9am Registration
9-4:30pm Symposium
UO School of Law Room 142

China’s media and entertainment industries are increasingly privatized. How do copyright and big media business affect China’s traditional model of central state media control?

This one-day conference proposes to explore these and related questions concerning the complex interplay between Chinese political philosophy and the emerging private media sector. 

Presented by the UO School of Law and cosponsored by the Oregon Review of International Law, the Confucius Institute for Global China Studies, and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

http://law.uoregon.edu/homepage/symposuim_schedule/

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2014 Computer Security Day at UO

uo_stacked_facebook_largeFriday, April 11, 2014
Jaqua Auditorium

Please join us for the Fourth Computer Security Day at the University of Oregon on April 11, 2014. This one-day event will feature a slate of distinguished speakers from academia, industry, and government, discussing current challenges and future opportunities in cybersecurity. The range of topics will be broad and diverse, ranging from examining future trends in computer security, to understanding cybersecurity within the federal government, to exciting new research in authentication mechanisms and securing systems and data. There will be plenty of opportunities to engage with the speakers and other attendees.

Additionally, there will be a student poster session and faculty talks to provide more information on research initiatives with the University of Oregon’s Department of Computer and Information Science, as well as breakout sessions to discuss trends and needs.

Admission is free, but registration in advance is required and space may be limited. Please contact us to register at  secday@cs.uoregon.edu.

For more information, visit http://securityday.cs.uoregon.edu/

 

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Want to learn how to use Scalar?

The Scalar development team will be offering a series of free online webinars this summer.

The “Introduction to Scalar” webinars will cover basic features of the platform: a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths, tags, annotations and importing media. The “Intermediate Scalar” webinars will delve into more advanced topics including the effective use of visualizations, annotating with media and a primer on customizing appearances in Scalar.

Introduction to Scalar: May 29, 10am-12pm (PST)
Intermediate Scalar: June 19, 4-6pm (PST)
Introduction to Scalar: July 10, 10am-12pm (PST)
Intermediate Scalar: July 31, 4-6pm (PST)

Spaces are limited, so sign up now!

To register for the online webinars, please visit the registration page.

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.

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“The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness” CFP

The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness

The Third Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group
October 16-18, 2014
University of California, Santa Barbara

Co-Organizers: Jen Boyle (Coastal Carolina University) + Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee University)

Email proposals (no more than 300 words) to cutebabel14@gmail.com by April 15, 2014.

Cute cues: infancy, youth, helplessness, vulnerability, harmlessness, play, enjoyment, awkwardness, needs, intimacy, homeliness, and simplicity. At other times, cuteness is cheapness, manipulation, delay, repetition, hierarchy, immaturity, frivolity, refusal, tantrum, and dependence. Cuteness is a threshold: “too cute” is a backhanded compliment. Or, cuteness is a beach where forces congregate. A dolphin breaching in the ocean may be cute, but not a beached one. And more than the pop cultural kawaii (literally, “acceptable love”), “cute”—the aphetic form of “acute”—also carries the sense of “clever, keen-witted, sharp.” The Latin acutus embraces the sharpened, the pointed, the nimble, the discriminating, and the piercing. To be cute is to be in pain. Cuteness is therefore a figure of Roland Barthes’s punctum or Georges Bataille’s point of ecstasy. As we gather at the Pacific Rim, let us, a la Takashi Murakami, recast the premodern in cuteness. The OED cites the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” as 1834. Sianne Ngai, in 2005, offered a critical
study of the cuteness of the twentieth-century avant-garde. But was there ever a medieval or early modern history or historiography of cuteness? Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages, or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? Has the humanities, or the university, ever been cute? Cuteness is the cheap bastard child of beauty: what’s beautiful may not be cute, but what’s ugly and monstrous may be.

This panel will feature curated materials (images, videos, texts, essays, sound bytes, trinkets, texts, objects and artifacts from the premodern and present) as a pre-session, submitted 2 to 3 months in advance of the conference and made available online (space provided by conference organizers); and a conference 40-minute dialogue, preceded by 5-minute “flash talk” show-and-tells where participants re-introduce their curated pieces. Pres-session curated materials will also be part of a media exhibit space associated with the conference. We welcome a diverse range of approaches (including but not limited to): aesthetics, material culture, affect, gender, queerness, childhood, youth, disability, camp, Sado-Cute, and Superflat.