The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns for its 5th edition on April 14, 2023. Join us 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.
Click here for the PDF version of the full schedule
The NMCC is already getting ready for the 2023-2024 academic year and is hiring for the new NMCC GE!
To view the full job description visit the Division of Graduate Studies website.
We invite submissions for 15-minute presentations from UO graduate students on any aspect of Data, Media, or Digital Studies for a symposium Friday, April 14th (this is week 2 of spring term), tentatively to be held in UO Library’s DREAM Lab. An annual event co-organized by UO’s Digital Humanities program, the Media Studies program in the School of Journalism & Communication, and the New Media & Culture Certificate, we invite submissions from graduate students in any UO program or department.
Presentations can be based on work in progress or on 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 studies, media studies, 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).
The Data|Media|Digital Symposium will be an opportunity to showcase the exciting multi-disciplinary work being produced by graduate students across campus. We look forward to sustaining cross-disciplinary conversations and building inter-departmental community over the course of the day. To facilitate this goal, student participants are expected to attend all three panel sessions comprising the symposium (to the extent that their teaching and academic schedules will allow). In addition to panel sessions, we will have informal time for discussion over food and drinks, a hosted lunch, and a panel of short presentations by UO faculty working in these areas.
Submission Details: Enter your submission at https://tinyurl.com/dmd-2023 by the end of day (11:59 PM) on Friday, January 27 (this is week 3 of winter term). The submission form will request an abstract (or executive summary) of your proposed presentation as well as basic information including any relevant research experience (such as conference presentations, publications, etc.). To access the submission form, you will need to be logged in to your UO email account. For your abstract, please prepare a PDF with your name, affiliation, and presentation title at the top. We anticipate this will be an in-person event—if an alternative format is more suitable for presenting your work please propose this in addition to your abstract.
Decisions about all submissions will be conveyed by early February.
Questions about D|M|D can be directed to any member of our co-organizing committee:
Click HERE for a plain-text PDF flyer of this CFP.
Join UO Libraries’ Data Services reading group on Fridays January 20, February 3rd, and February 17, between 12pm and 1pm.
They will be reading How We Became Our Data by current NMCC Director Colin Koopman!
For more information and to register: https://uoregon.libcal.com/calendar/dataservices/book_club_w2023
If you are interested in developing an Omeka Digital Exhibit with us, send us an email at nmcc@uoregon.edu.Curious of what others have done? Check out completed Omeka digital exhibits on our website!
Join us for coffee and snacks at our Winter NMCC Open House on Thursday February 2nd from 4pm-5:30pm in the Graduate Student Center (Susan Campbell Hall room 111).Meet fellow certificate members and NMCC faculty, or say hello to those you already know. This event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the New Media and Culture Certificate program, so bring a friend!We also want to hear about any suggestions you have for NMCC workshops, events, or speakers — so bring your ideas.
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
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!