Category: NMCC + UO Events

CFP: Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium

Call for Submissions

University of Oregon’s Eighth Annual
Data | Media | Digital Graduate Student Symposium

Submissions Due: Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We invite submissions from UO graduate students for 15-minute presentations on any aspect of data, media, or digital studies for a symposium in the UO Knight Library DREAM Lab on Friday, April 11, week 2 of the spring term at the Data|Media|Digital Symposium.

D|M|D is an opportunity to showcase the exciting multidisciplinary work produced by UO graduate students across campus. In addition to panels, we will have informal discussions over food and drinks, a hosted lunch, and a panel of short presentations by UO faculty working in these areas. We hope student participants will be able to attend the full day of panel sessions.

Presentations can be based on work in progress or research and work in the final stages of development. Proposals should specify clear scholarly or pedagogical goals and should articulate how the design or argument of a data/media/digital project might address those goals.

Any kind of data, media, or digital studies project is welcome. If you aren’t sure if your project fits our call, then it probably does, but please get in touch, and we can offer you our guidance.

Send your submission to nmcc.uo@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, January 28. Complete submissions will include the following:

  • Your (preferred) name (in the body of your email)
  • Your presentation title (in the body of your email)
  • Your home department at UO (in the body of your email)
  • Your degree program (Master’s, Doctoral) and your anticipated graduation term/year
  • A list (or selected list) of previous academic conference/event presentations (if this will be your first academic presentation outside of a class, that is okay and this will not impact the review of your submission; we request this information for our planning)
  • A separate PDF document with a 250-500 word abstract (or summary description of your project), the title of your presentation at the top, and your name. Please make sure this is a separate attachment and is not pasted in to the body of the email.

Decisions about all submissions will be shared in February.

You can share questions about D|M|D with any member of our organizing committee:

Event: Break The Game | film screening and director Q&A

Join the SOJC’s Game Studies minor for an evening with Jane Wagner, director of a new documentary about legendary Zelda speedrunner Narcissa Wright.

When: Thursday, May 30 at 4:30 PM

Where: EMU, Room 214 (Redwood)

What: Film screening and Q&A with the director

Sponsored by the Game Studies Minor, Media Studies Area, SOJC, UO Esports Program, Price Science Library, and the New Media and Culture Certificate

Description: Video games and the community around them have meant everything to Narcissa Wright. Her quests to set speed run records in numerous game titles have allowed her to own competitions and stages across the globe. But as much as she loves the challenge of conquering virtual worlds, her biggest challenge will come from the community whose love and affection she yearns for as she comes out as transgender. Hell-bent on setting a new speedrunning world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Narcissa struggles to balance the volatile nature of internet fandom and the prospect of building a fulfilling life outside the confines of pixels and sprites.

OHC Interview with Aimée Morrison now live

OHC’s interview with NMCC’s 2024 annual lecturer, Aimée Morrison, is now live on YouTube. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3pBypE8BBw&ab_channel=OregonHumanitiesCenter

 

Aimée Morrison’s lecture “Touch Grass” made a case for reclaiming learning techniques we’ve outsourced to technology and returning to the power of our hands, particularly in reference to hand-written notetaking. She then led a workshop for faculty and grads demonstrating the power of “sketch-noting.”

 

NMCC Alumna Returns for Guest Lecture

NMCC and Art History Alumna Emily Lawhead (PhD ’22) returns to UO to give the annual Gordon Gilkey Lecture for the History of Art and Architecture dept. Her presentation will share forthcoming research on AI and photography.   Please join us on Wednesday, May 22, at 5:30 to hear her wonderful and timely research.

“Art, Technology, and Discontent: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Photography” 5:30 pm, Wednesday, May 22, Pacific 123

Emily Lawhead (PhD ’22), Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Abstract: Heated debates have followed the emergence of new technologies in art for centuries. In fact, today’s discourse surrounding AI mimics historical reactions to and the trajectory of photography as an artistic medium. This talk will draw on the history of photography a data-based medium that has laid the groundwork for considering AI as a critical field of art history.

“Thinking with Your Hands:” A sketchnoting workshop with Dr. Aimee Morrison

On Friday, May 17 at 1:30 pm, Annual Lecturer Aimée Morrison will lead a hands-on workshop for NMCC affiliates interested in learning more about sketchnoting as a research practice. Tea will be served and art supplies will be provided!

Spots are limited – RSVP here! 

Grad students will receive priority, with any remaining spots going to faculty, staff, and undergraduate students in order of RSVP.

What is sketchnoting?

Also called visual note-taking, sketchnoting is the use of diagrams, symbols, drawings, doodles, illustrations, and other visual cues in combination with written notes. This creative, graphic note-taking style can improve focus and help with retention and synthesis of key information from a lecture or reading, and may be particularly helpful for neurodivergent folks. Here’s a quick video intro from Mike Rodhe, who has published a couple of books on the technique:

 

 

NMCC Annual Lecture: Dr. Aimee Morrison

Announcing the 2023-2024 NMCC Annual Lecture: Touch Grass, Thursday May 16th at 3pm, delivered by Dr. Aimée Morrison (Associate Professor of English Language + Literature), in the Knight Library Browsing Room. 

This talk considers how new media platforms, tools, and cultures might be leading us further and further away from our bodies and into our minds, to the detriment of each. The meme “Touch Grass,” an offhanded insult derived from therapy-speak lobbed at those we deem as having lost touch with reality from being extremely online, begins to capture a groundswell of discontent with the increasing virtuality of our everyday lives. By more closely delineating the links between embodied action and cognitive capacity, between producing and creating, we will consider how we might reorient our use of technology to support fully embodied human intelligence and ability, to allow us to “touch grass” more often and with less worry.

Dr. Morrison will also lead a grad workshop on sketch-noting on the afternoon of Friday, May 17th. More details to come.

Spring 2024 Data|Media|Digital Symposium

The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns for its 6th edition on April 19, 2024.

Join us in the Knight Library DREAM Lab for a full day of presentations on a wide range of topics related to data studies, media studies, and digital studies, showcasing the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced across campus.

DMD graphic with monospace font and typographic motifs resembling computer code

09:15-09:30a  Arrival, morning coffee/pastries
09:30-09:45a  Opening Remarks and Welcome

 

D|M|D Grad Symposium organizers: 

  • Mattie Burkert (CAS/English & Digital Humanities)
  • Maxwell Foxman (SOJC/Media Studies & Game Studies)
  • Courtney Cox (CAS/Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies & Black Studies)

 
09:45-10:45a

 

 PANEL A: Digital 

  • Andrew J. Wilson (SOJC), “‘God Bless the South, Brother’: A Paratextual Analysis of War of Rights Steam Reviews”
  • Will Arangelov (SOJC), “Developing Relationships and Self-Disclosure in the Gaming World: A Case Study on the Discord Platform”
  • Intisar Alshammari (English), “Digital Medievalism in the Classroom: Beowulf as a Model”
10:55-11:45a

 

 FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

  • Courtney Cox, IRES
  • Lana Lopesi, IRES
12:00-01:00p Lunch for presenters (Bartolotti’s Pizza in EMU)
01:15-02:30p  PANEL B: Media 

  • Emrakeb Woldearegay (SOJC), “Making Dissent Visible through Facebook Activism? The Tale of Three Ethiopians”
  • Stephen Ssenkaaba (SOJC), “Challenging Mainstream Media Narrative through Podcasting: The Case of Uganda’s Youth Podcasters”
  • Asher Caplan (Philosophy), “A Conduct-Based Inquiry Epistemology: John Dewey and the Educationist Response to Disinformation”
02:30-03:30p Abstract workshop and coffee/snack break
03:30-04:45p PANEL C:  Data

  • Nishat Parvez (SOJC), “Examining How Data Journalists in Bangladesh Keep Reporting Honest: Transparency, Ethical Data Visualization, and Protecting Secrets in Investigative Journalism”
  • Maxim Shapovalov (Geography), “Role of Surface Albedo for Explaining Differences of Modeled Greenland Ice Sheet Melt”
  • Genevieve Pfeiffer (English), “What’s Language Got to Do with It? Human-Language Model Entanglement”
  • Audrey Kalman (SOJC), “Denim Archive: Making Meaning of Clothing and Identity through Documentation”

Call for Presentations: Data|Media|Digital Symposium

Text reading "New Media and Culture Certificate, D|MD Symposium, Applications due: January 30, April 19, 2024 | UO Knight Library DREAM Lab" is over a lavender background. There is a half sun graphic next to the text.

Description
We invite submissions from UO graduate students for 15-minute presentations on any aspect of data, media, or digital studies for a symposium in the UO Knight Library DREAM Lab on Friday, April 19, week 3 of the spring term at the Data|Media|Digital Symposium.

D|M|D is an opportunity to showcase the exciting multidisciplinary work produced by graduate students across campus. We welcome student participants to attend all of the symposium’s panel sessions to the extent their schedules allow. In addition to panels, we will have informal discussions over food and drinks, a hosted lunch, and presentations by UO faculty.

Eligibility

Presentations can be based on work in progress or research and work in the final stages of development. Proposals should specify clear scholarly or pedagogical goals and should articulate how the design or argument of a data/media/digital project might address those goals.

Any kind of data, media, or digital studies project is welcome. If you aren’t sure if your project fits our call, then it probably does, but please get in touch, and we can offer you our guidance.

Application 
Enter your submission at https://bit.ly/nmcc-dmd by 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, January 30, week 4 of the winter term. The submission form will request an abstract of your proposed presentation and basic information, including any relevant research experience.

Decisions about all submissions will be shared in early February. We look forward to sustaining cross-disciplinary conversations and building an inter-departmental community at the UO.

Contact

You can share questions about D|M|D with any member of our co-organizing committee:

  • Mattie Burkert: mburkert@uoregon.edu, New Media and Culture Certificate Director
  • Courtney Cox: cmcox@uoregon.edu, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
  • Maxwell Foxman: mfoxman@uoregon.edu, School of Journalism and Communication

NMCC Winter 2024 Course Listing

Below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the winter 2024 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.

Talk by Catherine Malabou: Thursday April 27, 2023 from 2pm to 3:30pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room

Morphing Intelligence and the Anarchist Potential of AI and the Internet. A Talk by Catherine Malabou. Thursday April 27, 2023. 2pm-3:30pm. Location: Knight Library Browsing Room

Join us on Thursday April 27, 2023 from 2pm to 3:30pm in the Knigth Library Browsing Room for this NMCC cosponsored talk by Catherine Malabou titled “Morphing Intelligence and the Anarchist Potential of AI and the Internet.”

Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London. She is known for her work on plasticity, a concept she culled from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which has proved fertile within contemporary economic, political, and social discourses. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting figures in what has been called “The New French Philosophy,” Malabou’s research and writing covers a range of figures and issues, including the work of Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism.

To read Malabou’s latest book, check out Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artifical Brains.