Workshops
Analyzing Social Media
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGanaele Langlois is an important theorist of web 2.0 who thinks critically about social media and user-generated content, especially emphasizing how it shifts our attention from knowledge content to the conditions that make such content possible. She will lead a workshop on Infoscape Research Lab’s open tools that help analyze blogs, YouTube, Twitter, as well as the web in general.
Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-Rich Timelines with Timeline JS
Lapham 271 3209 North Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Digital Future Workshop Derek Mueller (Written Communication, Eastern Michigan) 9:00 am - 12:15 pm, Lapham 271 This half-day workshop will introduce Timeline JS, a platform designed by VéritéCo and Knight News Innovation Lab for assembling media-rich timelines. Although timelines …
Interrogating Big Data
Curtin 108 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Digital Future Workshop Matthew Jockers (English, University of Nebraska) 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (lunch included), Curtin 108 Matthew Jockers’ research and teaching is focused on computational text analysis, specifically an approach he calls “macroanalysis.” He was the co-founder …
Workshop: Feminist Theory
Curtin Hall 939 A discussion of Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle (PM Press, 2012) The book can be ordered through the publisher. About the Workshop The Feminist Theory Research Workshop aims to bring together …
Nick Montfort (Digital Media, MIT)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesExploratory Programming Workshop An MIGC workshop This workshop introduces how to think with computation, focusing on how computing can be used with language and literature. Programming is introduced as a way to iteratively design both artworks and humanities projects, in …
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheme: MOSAIC See MIGC Website Keynote talk Jason W. Moore (Sociology, Binghamton University) “Expulsions, Inclusions, and the Double Valence of Violent Abstraction: How Modernity Works Through Nature to Accumulate Capital and Destroy Lives” Friday, February 17 3:30 pm Curtin 175 …
Discussion with N. Katherine Hayles
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join us for a brown-bag discussion of computer cognition and the politics of information with N. Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Literature at Duke University. Later on Friday Hayles will also be giving a special lecture, …