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

#FindYourReality

Tues. May 10, 12-5 PM
PDF of flyer + program schedule here.

You are invited to apply for the UO Libraries’ two-day workshop on Understanding and Establishing Digital Scholarly Identity for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

This workshop will be held on June 7th and 8th in the Knight Library DREAM Lab from 10am-3pm each day.

Announcing the 2021-2022 NMCC ANNUAL LECTURE:
The Illumination of Blackness: Afro-optimism and Digital Cultures, Thur. May 5th, 2022, 4:00-5:30 PM. Featuring André Brock (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Georgia Tech).

André Brock’s field-defining scholarship examines racial representations in social media, video games, black women and weblogs, whiteness, and technoculture. His monograph, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (NYU Press, 2020), explores the history and cultural practices of Web browsers, Black Twitter, and Black discourse—how Black everyday lives are mediated by networked technologies—to inform a deeply theoretical conception of Black technoculture. Distributed Blackness was recently honored by the 2021 Nancy Baym Annual Book Award and can be read (open access) online.

In addition to his main NMCC talk on Thursday May 5th, Dr. Brock will be facilitating a lunchtime workshop on Friday, May 6th for graduate students on “Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA)”: a multimodal analytic technique he developed for the investigation of internet and digital phenomena, artifacts, and culture. (More on CTDA here). The CTDA Graduate Student Workshop is open to all graduate students at the University of Oregon and lunch will be provided. Please Note: registration for the CTDA Graduate Student Workshop is now closed.

EVENT CO-SPONSORS: The Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities · University of Oregon Department of Philosophy · University of Oregon Department of Sociology · University of Oregon Department of Comparative Literature · University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies · University of Oregon Department of English

University of Oregon Spring 2022
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research.

April 7: Yuji Hiratsuka: “The Art of Color Intaglio Process and Aesthetics”
Made possible by the Gilkey Foundation Fund

April 14: Shawna X: “Processing”

April 28: Liz Magor: “I Have Wasted My Life”
George and Matilda Fowler Lecture

May 5: Elissa Auther: “Queer Maximalism”

May 19: Lewis Watts: “Faces and Places in the Diaspora”
Co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time in Lawrence Hall, Room 177, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403 and will also live stream on YouTube.

The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns to our traditional in-person day-long format this year! 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.

Program & Schedule · Click HERE for a PDF version.

Note: all in Knight Library DREAM Lab.
Click HERE for a PDF flyer for D|M|D 2022 · Visit the D|M|D Archives.

9:30 AM: Opening Remarks + Welcome by D|M|D Grad Symposium organizers: UO Faculty Maxwell Foxman (SOJC), Heidi Kaufman (English & DH@UO), and Colin Koopman (Philosophy & NMCC)

9:45-11:15 AM: PANEL A: INFRASTRUCTURES
Moderator: Gabriela Chitwood (History of Art & Architecture)

Shuxi Wu, Asian Studies: “Regional Internets: The Mobile Telecom-Led Model of Internet Development in Japan and China”
S. Hamid, SOJC: “An Automated Pig Is Still a Pig”
Paul Showler, Philosophy: “Consider the Robot: An Ecumenical Account of AI Rights”

11:15-12:00 PM: FACULTY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Helen Southworth, Professor, English: “Designing for the Diasporic Archive: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project”
Amanda Cote, Assistant Professor, SOJC: “The Digital Through the Material”

12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 PM: PANEL B: PROCESSES
Moderator: Maxwell Foxman (Media Studies, SOJC)

Kathleen Gekiere, English: “Caught in the Middle: Foraging Relationships with Matsutake and Huckleberries”
Hannah Gershone, Environmental Studies: “Transracial Adoptees and Uncertain Futurities: An Adoptee Art Archive”
Jared Hansen, SOJC: “Packaging Video Game Nostalgia: How Clone Consoles Sell New Experiences for Old Games”

3:00-3:30 PM: Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 PM: PANEL C: COMMUNITIES
Moderator: Heidi Kaufman (English + DH)

Molly McBride, Anthropology: “Cyborg Lesbians: TikTok’s Algorithm and the Construction of Sexuality”
Samantha Lorenzo and Megan Denneny, SOJC: “Conformation or Conspiracy: Exploring the Infiltration of Pop Culture Ideologies Among Millenials”
Andrew Wilson, SOJC: “Isolation Play: Video Game Uses and Gratifications During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

5:00-5:15 PM: Closing Remarks

Data|Media|Digital is an annual collaboration between the following University of Oregon units: Digital Humanities (Department of English), New Media & Culture Certificate, School of Journalism & Communication, with Digital Scholarship Services, University Libraries. Please visit the following sites for further information on Data|Media|Digital classes, programs, & events at the University of Oregon:

New Media and Culture Certificate for Grads (NMCC)
DH Minor, Department of English
PhD in Communication and Media Studies, SOJC
MA in Multimedia Journalism, SOJC
Media Studies Major and Minor, SOJC
Digital Scholarship Services (DSS), UO Libraries

ALGORITHMIC BIAS WORKSHOP

Fri. February 18th, 2PM, LLCS (Living Learning Center South) 101
Part of the Responsible Data Science Workshop Series (Winter and Spring 2022)

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. The first workshop is coming up on Friday, February 18th at 2:00 in LLCS (Living Learning Center South) 101, on the topic of Algorithmic Bias with NMCC faculty-affiliate, Ramon Alvarado (Assistant Professor of Philosophy).

The Algorithmic Bias Workshop will offer a set of conceptual tools for identifying forms of bias at different stages of the machine learning pipeline. We will also explore strategies for mitigating the unwanted effects of algorithmic bias. If these issues are relevant to your work, please come, bring a computer, and be prepared with questions.

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.

The New Media and Culture Certificate is a transdisciplinary program open to graduate students working at the intersection of new media and culture in any masters or Ph.D. program at the University of Oregon.

The NMCC connects you to students working at the intersection of new media and culture and a wide range of topics from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as affiliated faculty committed to providing support for new media scholars at UO, regardless of their home department.

Though you’re welcome to apply at any point in their studies, there are limits to the number of credits taken before acceptance into the Certificate program that can count toward NMCC requirements. As such, you should apply as early in your graduate program as possible, and ideally as soon as you decide you want to pursue NMCC. Applications for the program are due by the middle of Week 5 every term. For Winter 2022, that deadline is fast approaching: Tuesday, February 1st.

Join us for a Virtual Q&A session on Friday, January 28th, 3-5 PM. Drop by any time with your questions + queries about the application process or the program more broadly.

Join us:

NMCC Winter 2022 Virtual Q+A
Date + Time: Friday, January 28th, 3-5 PM
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/nmccwinterqa
Passcode: protocol

Thurs, February 3rd, 3 PM, Virtual Book Launch
Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism

Join NMCC faculty affiliate Carol Stabile and the Reanimate Publishing Collective for a celebration and discussion of Fredi Washington: A Reader in Black Feminist Media Criticism, with special guest speaker Laurie Avant Woodard (City College of New York).

Published as part of the Reanimate publishing collective’s commitment to recovering the unheard voices of women and women of color in media industries, Fredi Washington transcribes the 305 columns Washington wrote for The People’s Voice and makes them available in open access format through the University of Minnesota Press’s Manifold platform. The reader also includes an introduction to the life and work of Washington written by Laurie Avant Woodard, who is writing the much-awaited first biography of Washington.

REGISTER NOW: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/frediwashingtonbooklaunch

JOIN US for the NMCC FALL 2021 Invited Panel:
MODEL REALITIES: Technological Projections & Their Politics

in-person: Friday, Nov. 19th, 2:00-4:30 PM
Crater Lake Room (EMU 145/146)

Lexi Neame, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Reed College:
“Model Affordances: Climate Science and the Prophetic Tradition”

Jake Fraser, Assistant Professor of German and Humanities, Reed College:
“The Reality of Computer Simulation: Cybernetics and the History of Simulated Futures”

Followed by Refreshments + NMCC Community Social.