Tomorrow, Friday, January 23,
9-10:30am
Digital Scholarship Center (Knight 142)
As you know, our open houses bring together grad students and faculty from across campus to discuss all things “new media.”NMCC Director Kate Mondloch and NMCC GTF Caroline Parry will be on hand to answer questions and introduce upcoming programming for winter and spring terms.
All are welcome and coffee and treats are on us!
Monday, February 2, 2015 2:30 pm Reception
3:00 pm Lecture Gerlinger Lounge — FREE
A public lecture by Lynn Spigel, Francis E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, Northwestern University will be held at the Gerlinger Lounge on February 2. In her lecture, Spigel will be exploring a collection of family snapshots depicting people posing in front of their TV sets in the 1950s and 1960s and how they used TV as a backdrop for social performances of family life and social identities of gender, class, and race:
“This talk explores my new collection of over 5000 family snapshots depicting people posing in front of their TV sets in the 1950s and 1960s. I consider how snapshot cameras functioned as an appendage technology for television at the time when TV first came into US homes. Snapshots were a “thing to do” with TV beyond TV’s more obvious function as a spectator medium.
These snapshots provide visual evidence of the social life into which TV inserted itself. They show us how people arranged their rooms for television and how they used it as an object of display. But, most importantly, they show us how people used TV as a backdrop for social performances of family life and social identifies of gender, class, and race.
In addition to considering these photos as a new form of visual evidence for the social practices surrounding TV’s innovation, I also explore their status as forms of “analog nostalgia” by considering why they have reappeared as valuable collectibles on the vintage market and online websites today.” -Lynn Spigel
Spigel, the Francis E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University, is the author of TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television; Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs; and Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. She has co-edited volumes including The Revolution Wasn’t Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict; Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader; and Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition.
There will be a reception with Lynn Spigel at 2:30 pm, followed by the lecture at 3 pm. Coffee and desserts will be served before and after the event.
This event is co-sponsored by the School of Journalism & Communication/Media Studies Program.
Friday, March 6, 10a.m.-1p.m.
Knight Library Browsing Room
On March 6, Resident Scholar Gabríela Martínez, hosts a symposium on Media, Democracy and Technologies: Possibilities and Challenges at the School of Journalism and Communication.
Featuring Madeleine Bair, Witness; Danny O’Brien, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Endalk Chala, Zone 9 Bloggers; and Tewodros Workneh, UO School of Journalism and Communication. Introduction and moderation by Gabríela Martínez, UO School of Journalism and Communication.
Cosponsored with the UO School of Journalism and Communication.
February 17, 2015
12:00-1:00 pm
Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society on February 17, 2015, at noon. She will speak on the subject of Slut-Shaming, based on her research on media habits. She comes from a feminist perspective.
Wendy Chun is professor and chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature, which she combines and mutates in her current work on digital media.
She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006), and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011); she is coeditor (with Tara McPherson and Patrick Jagoda) of a special issue of American Literature entitled New Media and American Literature, coeditor (with Lynne Joyrich) of a special issue of Camera Obscura entitled Race and/as Technology, and coeditor (with Thomas Keenan) of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2005).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics is dedicated to education and public discussion of current issues in law and politics.
Interested in attending?
Please RSVP to csws@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5015.
This workshop is a sneak-peek of workshops to be offered to students, staff, and faculty.
The kits are a resource of the Digital Scholarship Center at University of Oregon Knight Library.
Space is limited! Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/LYqbD9OUgN
Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 7 p.m.
110 Knight Law Center
Featuring Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect and weekly columnist forThe Washington Post. A frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, in 2009, he was named one of “the most influential commentators in the nation” by The Atlantic Monthly.
He is the author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg. He serves as a vice chair of National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Part of the Public Affairs Speaker Series presented by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and cosponsored by the UO Department of Political Science. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Digital Scholarship Center (Knight 142)
6pm
On Wednesday, January 21st, Ada (A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology) in association with Fembot, will be hosting a peer review session at the Digital Scholarship Center for Ada, Issue 7: Open Call, edited by Carol Stabile (@castabile) and Radhika Gajjala (@cyberdivalivesl)!
Ada is a feminist multimodal journal dedicated to issues of gender in new media and technology. You can check out previous issues of Ada over on the Fembot website, here.
All students are welcome, and pizza will be provided!
Please contact Carol Stabile with any questions regarding the event, or about Ada in general!
For more information about, Ada, Fembot, and the submission guidelines and/or review process for the upcoming Ada issue check out the following links:
It’s time to brush off that resume, put together a CV, write a compelling cover letter and get a job!
Kristi Lodge, Asst. Director of the Career Connections at the UO Career Center provides practical advice about putting together a CV, including how to incorporate conference presentations, research, publications, and GTF experience.
She’ll also cover how to convert a resume to a CV, tips for writing a cover letter, and where to go if you would like one-on- one assistance during your job search.
Please RSVP for this workshop.
Offered by Kim Wollter (Graduate School), Keli Yerian (Linguistics), Katy Lenn (UO Libraries), this workshop is targeted for students just beginning the research and writing process. Topics that will be covered are research strategies, organization strategies, the scholarly writing process, writing techniques, revisions, drop-in appointments with the Graduate School Thesis/Dissertation Editor, university style formatting, and ETD submission.
Please RSVP for this workshop.
Writers, researchers, coders, students: have you ever gone to Wikipedia looking for information about women, trans, and/or gender non‐conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians, and others, only to find the same gender marginalizations that occur in traditional Encyclopedias? Have you ever wondered what a feminist app or program might do or look like? Then join Ms. Magazine, the Fembot Collective, and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s first ever Wikipedia Edit-‐a‐Thon + Hack‐a‐Thon!
On Friday, March 6th, Fembot will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will they be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, they will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries that will outlive the participation of their creators – ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-‐conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.
At the first Fembot Hack‐a‐thon, they created the Fembot Bot: an auto-‐tweeting bot designed to auto-‐reply to sexist and racist hashtags. Sadly, Twitter shut down the Fembot Bot too quickly. Join Fembot in their memory on Saturday, March 7th, when they will collaborate with coders, software designers, and others at the Annenberg School to build some awe‐inspiring feminist tools and interventions.
Send suggestions on who you’d like to see written into Wikipedia to admin@fembotcollective.org; look for registration information and other details on the Fembot website in early winter!
Event Sponsors: the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Fembot Collective, Ms. Magazine, and the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
