Initial Registration for Fall Term 2022 runs from through next week (May 25th); below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the 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.
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!
Friday, May 20th, 3PM in 220 HEDCO Education Building
Part of the Responsible Data Science Workshop Series
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.
Workshop #3 will be held on Friday, May 20th at 3:00p in Hedco Education Bldg Room 220. The focus will be on data privacy. We will consider a few important dimensions of privacy ethics: 1) the meanings and understandings of privacy, 2) particular toolsets, or analytics, for interrogating potential privacy biases in datasets, and 3) hands-on application of these analytics to real-world (and maybe also a few fictionalized) cases. The analytics we will consider are based on published work in Helen Nissenbaum’s 2009 book Privacy In Context (link) and the taxonomy of privacy developed by Deirdre Mulligan, Colin Koopman, and Nick Doty in their 2016 article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (link).
This workshop will be led and hosted by Ramón Alvarado (UO Philosophy) and Colin Koopman (UO Philosophy), with the assistance of Philosophy Ph.D. students Paul Showler, Brooke Burns, and Asher Caplan.
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.
Thinking with Data: Beyond Data Visualization – Data as Art!
May 19th at 3:30pm in the Knight Library DREAM lab.
In Person + Online. There will be drinks and snacks!
Register here to attend the lecture in person or remotely.
Dr. Greg Matthews, Associate Professor and Director for Data Science at Loyola University, will discuss the historical importance of context and technology in art. He argues that “Data Art” is the next logical step for the art world and discusses how people can get involved in making data art.
According to Dr. Matthews, “Artists throughout history have created art that is a reflection of the society that they are living in and experiencing. One of the most dominating features of the society we are currently living in is the massive amount of data that is continuously being collected; we live in a big data world. It is natural then that artists would begin to reflect on this aspect of society and incorporate data into their art. In this talk, I give a brief history of technology and data in art followed by a summary of data art from the 21st century.”
Professor Matthews will also appear at Coffee + Data && Code on May 20th at noon for a more informal hybrid conversation and more snacks (register for Coffee + Data && Code here).
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
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.If you have any questions about the event, please contact Genifer Snipes at gsnipes@uoregon.edu.
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
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 Spring 2022, that deadline is fast approaching: Tuesday, April 26th, 2022.
Join us for a Virtual Q&A session on Tuesday, April 19th, 3-5 PM. Drop by any time with your questions + queries about the application process or the program more broadly.
Join us:
NMCC Spring 2022 Virtual Q+A
Date + Time: Tuesday, April 19th, 3-5 PM
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/nmccspring2022qa
Passcode: kittler
Friday, April 22nd at 2:00p in Knight Library Room 101
Part of the Responsible Data Science Workshop Series
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 second workshop in the series will be held in Spring term 2022 on Friday, April 22nd at 2:00p in Knight Library Room 101 with NMCC director, Dr. Colin Koopman.
The focus will be on tools for understanding the conceptual underpinnings and historical contexts of data structures, fields, and variables defining our databases. There will be discussion of the value of equality and the very meaning of equality itself (does equality imply sameness, difference-sensitive treatment, or something else?). And there will be an overview of tools for assessing and identifying potential inequalities in data design itself. If you can, please bring a data set (or more precisely a database schema) with you (either one you use, have used, or plan to use) and we’ll take a hands-on approach.
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.
