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!
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
University of Oregon Spring 2022Presented 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.
