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

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

#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