Initial Registration for Winter Term 2023 opens on Monday November 14; below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the Winter term:
If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.
We are excited to announce that next year’s 2022-23 NMCC ANNUAL LECTURE will be presented by Dr. Autumn Womack of Princeton University on October 27, 2022. The title of her talk will be “Unruly Matters: Data, Blackness, and Aesthetics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.”
The talk will take up themes from Dr. Womack’s new book The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930. The book traces a genealogy of media of racial datafication at the turn of the twentieth century to discern forms, assumptions, and “data crises” that we are all aware are still with us today. Womack’s archival range extends from W.E.B. Du Bois’s social surveys to Zora Neale Hurston’s engagements with film and takes up as well as a number of other literary and photographic interventions.
Simone Browne (Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness) writes that Womack’s book “calls for an urgent rethinking of the information technologies, data regimes and disciplinary measures employed to enumerate black social life,” such that “The Matter of Black Living reveals the ruptures and possibilities of black creative innovation. A brilliant read.” In that tone, save the date now and come join us in Fall for what will be a brilliant lecture.
Dr. Autumn Womack is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, and earned her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University (find more here).
This year’s NMCC Lecture is sponsored by NMCC, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Department of Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of English.
Additionally, there will be a workshop for graduate students on the topic of “Black Archives: Theory and Practice.” The workshop is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 28th at 10:00 AM in the Knight Library Dream Lab. Register now at: https://bit.ly/BlackArchivesWorkshop
TALK + RECEPTION DETAILS:
Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Knight Library Browsing Room
2:00 – 4:00 PM
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Friday, October 28th, 2022
Knight Library DREAM Lab (1st floor)
10:00 – 11:30 AM
Register now at: https://bit.ly/BlackArchivesWorkshop
Thorsten Quandt is Full Professor of Online Communication at the University of Münster, Germany. His work focuses on societal changes connected to the Internet and new media. Recent research includes studies on “dark participation” online propaganda, dysfunctional online use, and the transformation of journalism. His research group’s approaches and methods operate at the intersection of communication studies, psychology, and data science. Previous academic stations include the University of Hohenheim, the Free University Berlin, and LMU Munich, and he was a visiting professor at Stanford University, the Univer
Recent studies in connection with Prof. Quandt’s talk:
Following her NMCC Annual Lecture on Thursday October 27 from 2pm-4pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room, Dr. Autumn Womack will be facilitating a workshop on October 28 from 10am to 11:30am in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for graduate students titled “Black Archives: Theory and Practice”.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Friday, October 28th, 2022
Knight Library DREAM Lab (1st floor)
10:00 – 11:30 AM
Register now at: https://bit.ly/BlackArchivesWorkshop
Initial Registration for Fall Term 2022 runs from through next week (May 25th); below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the term:
If you are curious if a course not listed on the website can count towards the certificate, please check out our course petition process or contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu for more information.
On May 27th from 3-5, in McKenzie Hall 375, a line-up of UO philosophers and historians (Ramón Alvarado, Christoph Rass, Colin Koopman, Ian McNeely, Lindsay Braun, and Vera Keller) will each address a single “tool of knowledge,” that is, the often forgotten but extremely powerful, mundane ways we organize and access knowledge. The event will feature plenty of time to discuss the convergence and divergences of these tools across time and place!
Friday, May 20th, 3PM in 220 HEDCO Education Building
Part of the Responsible Data Science Workshop Series
The “Responsible Data Science” series is a joint venture of the UO Data Science Initiative, Department of Philosophy, School of Law, and Oregon Health Sciences University. Each workshop in the series will focus on a different topic of concern for data-centric research environments.
Workshop #3 will be held on Friday, May 20th at 3:00p in Hedco Education Bldg Room 220. The focus will be on data privacy. We will consider a few important dimensions of privacy ethics: 1) the meanings and understandings of privacy, 2) particular toolsets, or analytics, for interrogating potential privacy biases in datasets, and 3) hands-on application of these analytics to real-world (and maybe also a few fictionalized) cases. The analytics we will consider are based on published work in Helen Nissenbaum’s 2009 book Privacy In Context (link) and the taxonomy of privacy developed by Deirdre Mulligan, Colin Koopman, and Nick Doty in their 2016 article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (link).
This workshop will be led and hosted by Ramón Alvarado (UO Philosophy) and Colin Koopman (UO Philosophy), with the assistance of Philosophy Ph.D. students Paul Showler, Brooke Burns, and Asher Caplan.
Advanced Registration Requested: send a quick email indicating interest to Paul Showler in the Philosophy Department at pauls@uoregon.edu. Please be sure and include your name, position title, and campus affiliation.
Thinking with Data: Beyond Data Visualization – Data as Art!
May 19th at 3:30pm in the Knight Library DREAM lab.
In Person + Online. There will be drinks and snacks!
Register here to attend the lecture in person or remotely.
Dr. Greg Matthews, Associate Professor and Director for Data Science at Loyola University, will discuss the historical importance of context and technology in art. He argues that “Data Art” is the next logical step for the art world and discusses how people can get involved in making data art.
According to Dr. Matthews, “Artists throughout history have created art that is a reflection of the society that they are living in and experiencing. One of the most dominating features of the society we are currently living in is the massive amount of data that is continuously being collected; we live in a big data world. It is natural then that artists would begin to reflect on this aspect of society and incorporate data into their art. In this talk, I give a brief history of technology and data in art followed by a summary of data art from the 21st century.”
Professor Matthews will also appear at Coffee + Data && Code on May 20th at noon for a more informal hybrid conversation and more snacks (register for Coffee + Data && Code here).
Tues. May 17th, 2022: HA&A Sponenburgh Lecture
DR. NICOLA CAMERLENGHI (Associate Professor, Dartmouth College)
“Sculpture at the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome: A Digital Approach to 1600 Years of History”
Nicola Camerlenghi is Associate Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches and researches early Christian and medieval architecture with a focus on the city of Rome. He is particularly invested in approaching these topics through digital tools, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, GIS Mapping, 3D Modeling, Photogrammetry, and Laser Scanning.
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2022 5:30 | MCKENZIE HALL 229
ZOOM LINK: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92138652758
