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.