Below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the winter 2024 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.
Harvey Mudd College Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies
Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, California) invites applications for the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies, beginning fall 2024. Applications are invited from artists and scholars working at the intersection of art and science, technology and society (STS).
Applicants’ methods can draw from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, including, but not limited to anthropology, art, design, environmental studies, gender studies, geography, history, literature, media studies, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology. The successful candidate will have a PhD or MFA by the time of appointment, a strong and ongoing creative practice or research program, and the potential for excellence in teaching.
This 1 to 2-year early-career fellowship balances teaching and professional practice. The fellow will teach two undergraduate courses per academic year, and will be encouraged to take advantage of the resources available to support teaching development at the Claremont Colleges. Potential resources for artists include the Makerspace, numerous labs and shops, and the Media Art Project space.
While pursuing their own independent research/creative practice, we expect the fellow to act as a catalyst for conversations among faculty and students. The fellow will work with the Hixon-Riggs director to lead a faculty reading or art-viewing group in the first year, and to organize and host a workshop or conference in the second year.
The annual salary for the position is $85,000 and includes health benefits. In addition, the fellow will receive a professional allowance of $3000 per year to support travel and research/creative practice. Additional internal funding is possible. Second-year renewal is contingent upon successful performance in the first year.
Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, academically challenging institution that offers majors in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Across departments, the college is committed to broadening participation in STEM fields.
This position, funded by the Hixon Riggs Program for Responsive Science and Engineering, is housed in the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts – an interdisciplinary department supporting the college’s liberal arts program. HMC’s membership in the Claremont Colleges consortium allows significant opportunities for collaboration with colleagues at the other Claremont Colleges and the Claremont Graduate University, especially in the Intercollegiate STS Program. Situated approximately 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, Claremont offers easy access to LA’s cultural scene. The 2024 fellowship is concurrent with the Southern-California-wide Getty-sponsored set of exhibitions, PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
Applications must be submitted to: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25895. Preference will be given to applications received by Dec. 10, 2023. Applicants are asked to submit: a letter of application, a CV, a research/artist’s statement, sample work, a teaching portfolio including testimony of effective teaching and a statement of teaching philosophy, two sample syllabi for proposed courses, and three letters of recommendation. In these materials, we encourage applicants to explain how this position will advance their career goals, and to describe how a commitment to diversity and inclusion shapes their professional work. We expect to complete Zoom interviews by Jan. 28, 2024.
Harvey Mudd College enthusiastically welcomes applications from talented individuals from all backgrounds. The College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be given consideration for employment without regard to age, race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. Further questions may be addressed to Rachel Mayeri, Hixon-Riggs Director and chair of the search committee: mayeri@g.hmc.edu.
UO Libraries seeks to fill a Winter 2024 Term GE position for LIB 350M/DSCI 350M Humanities Research Data Management, which is now a required elective for the Digital Humanities minor and Data Science Cultural Analytics program.
This course provides students with theoretical and practical experience in collecting, processing, archiving, and publishing humanities data (images, video, sound, text, maps, etc.) gathered from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs). With the goal of building thematic digital collections as researchers, students learn digital methodologies focusing on the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of working with humanities research data throughout its curation lifecycle.
This includes hands-on experience finding, assessing, organizing, and reformatting data; creating and remediating descriptive metadata; evaluating and determining copyright and licensing; writing a data management plan using the standards set by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and sharing thematic research digital collections using GitHub and the opensource platform CollectionBuilder.
This job is a great opportunity for any GE looking to boost their digital research skills associated with digital humanities, cultural analytics, and public humanities scholarship. Job posting can be found on the Division of Graduate Studies website, due 10/20/23.
Welcome to the fall term, New Media and Culture certificate network! We’re excited to continue supporting your work on and beyond campus. As the year progresses, here’s a quick reintroduction to this year’s NMCC team.
Interim Director Mattie Burkert (she/they) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. Dr. Burkert directs the Minor in Digital Humanities and is a scholar of digital humanities, early modern and eighteenth-century literature, theater and performance, and the histories of science, technology, and gender.
Program Assistant Zoë Gamell Brown (she/they) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies’ inaugural cohort, and they are pursuing a New Media Culture certificate. Zoë’s research explores the shoals where race and Indigeneity meet within Boviander ecologies, using critical autotheory to practice creative, culinary, and spiritual care.
We look forward to continuing to connect with and grow the NMCC network on campus and virtually. If you are receiving this email as a current or prospective student, know that NMCC is here to support your interests and new approaches to digital technology, collaboration, creativity, and scholarship. If you want to add the NMCC to your degree, contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu.
Kick off the term with us at our NMCC Open House on Friday, October 20. Join us between 2:30 and 4:30 pm PT in the UO DREAM Lab, located on the first floor of Knight Library in room 122.
There’ll be time to meet NMCC staff, learn more about the certificate, and connect with NMCC affiliates over light snacks and beverages. We will also be welcoming ideas for future programming you want to see take place.
This is a casual gathering, so drop by as your schedule allows.
The 2023 Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop welcomes proposals from scholars across disciplines to workshop works-in-progress papers that focus on issues of surveillance and/in society, with a particular emphasis on scholarship that brings media, communication, or information studies perspectives to these issues. Our broad theme is focused on the interconnections between “Media, Information, and Surveillance.” Proposals that align with the theme of the conference will receive some priority in the selection process. By framing the conference theme around issues of media, information, and surveillance, we hope to foster connections and dialogue about how approaching and understanding emerging surveillance practices and technologies from media studies, communication theory, information science, and critical data studies perspectives can provide new insights or open new directions for surveillance studies research. For example: How can theories, concepts, and approaches from media studies and the information sciences inform how we conceptualize, study, and regulate emerging forms of data-intensive surveillance?
*Important note about full drafts: Proposals will be accepted on the basis of abstracts, but full drafts of accepted papers must be submitted in time for discussants and other participants to read and prepare comments as noted below. These need not be final, polished drafts, but they should be substantially complete. They should also be at a stage where feedback can be incorporated into the papers prior to submission for publication. If authors of accepted abstracts do not submit a full draft paper by the Sept. 16 deadline, their paper will be removed from the program and will not be workshopped at the conference.
Participation Note: There will be opportunities to participate at the conference even if you do not submit a paper. For example, we will be assigning Discussants for each paper at the conference (as authors will not present their own work). If you have an interest in serving as a discussant for a paper at the conference, please sign up for updates via our listserv https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/ssnoregon2023-discussants or check the conference website for updated information later this summer.
Authors should submit an abstract as part of their application to have their research workshopped at the conference. Your abstracts should be in English and be between 500 and 700 words. You should clearly and concisely link your ideas and research to existing scholarly literature (and fully reference cited literature in a references section following your abstract). Abstracts should identify the theories, concepts, methods, and conclusions of your paper, and should also demonstrate your awareness and understanding of the existing relevant literature and explain how your work relates to, informs, or diverges from the existing body of knowledge. If you wish to cite your own work in your abstract, you should refer to your work in the third person – for example, “As Newell and Reeves (2023) argued,” instead of something like “in our prior work….” Please remember that substantially completed full drafts (which need not be polished but should be complete enough for meaningful discussion and feedback during the conference) will be required for all accepted proposals. Finally, there is no opportunity nor obligation to publish papers workshopped at the conference.
Note: Abstracts which reveal the identity of the author(s), are not accompanied by full references to prior work (those cited in the abstract), or which are significantly below 500 words or above 700 words will be rejected without review.
You should submit your abstracts through EasyChair.
For a full description of the workshop visit the workshop call for paper webpage.
Please direct any of your questions to the conference co-chairs, Bryce Newell (bcnewell@uoregon.edu) and Joshua Reeves (reevejos@oregonstate.edu). Please put “SSN Oregon 2023” in the subject line of your email.
Initial Registration for Fall Term 2023 opens on May 22; below are the NMCC’s course offerings for the Fall 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.
Join us on Thursday April 27, 2023 from 2pm to 3:30pm in the Knigth Library Browsing Room for this NMCC cosponsored talk by Catherine Malabou titled “Morphing Intelligence and the Anarchist Potential of AI and the Internet.”
Catherine Malabou is a French philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and professor of modern European philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University, London. She is known for her work on plasticity, a concept she culled from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which has proved fertile within contemporary economic, political, and social discourses. Widely regarded as one of the most exciting figures in what has been called “The New French Philosophy,” Malabou’s research and writing covers a range of figures and issues, including the work of Hegel, Freud, Heidegger, and Derrida; the relationship between philosophy, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis; and concepts of essence and difference within feminism.
To read Malabou’s latest book, check out Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artifical Brains.
UO Libraries has great skills & community building events all Spring term. For the detailed schedule of the when/where/what of their coding workshop, book club, co-working sessions and reference manager workshops check out the UO Libraries’ Data Services events page.
The annual Data|Media|Digital Graduate Student Symposium returns for its 5th edition on April 14, 2023. 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.
Click here for the PDF version of the full schedule
Registration for the 2023 Summer Education Institution (SEI) for Digital Stewardship of Visual Information is now open!
Registration rates for SEI 2023: $225 for members of ARLIS/NA and VRA and $250 for non-members.
SEI is a fantastic learning and networking opportunity for Gallery, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM) professionals and students interested in creating and maintaining sustainable digital collections. SEI 2023 is a virtual workshop, and will open on Monday, June 12, with an orientation activity facilitated by the SEI Team. Most days feature two curricular workshops led by instructors and optional social events, during which the SEI Team plans to make time and space for SEI attendees to build community socially and professionally. SEI will close on Friday, June 16 with a wrap-up activity, also facilitated by the SEI Team.
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to write to the SEI Co-Chairs at seiworkshop.contact@gmail.com or via their website.