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 …
The Dark Side of the Digital
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesConference Website At least since the 1980s, the digital has been the occasion for enthusiastic, often utopian, dreams. In almost every area of human and nonhuman endeavor—finance, consumer culture, technoscience, education, medicine, communication, or the arts—digital technologies have been heralded …
Anthropocene Feminism
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCoined by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen at the inception of the 21st century, the concept of the Anthropocene postulates a new geological epoch defined by overwhelming human influence upon the earth beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the …
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 …
#BlackLivesMatterUWMKE: What Should We Do?
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAn EmergentC21 forum to identify challenges and opportunities for UWM to join in ongoing racial justice movements in Milwaukee. Community Panelists Jeremy Triblett Angela Walker Khalil Coleman Jayme Montgomery Baker UWM Respondents Anne Bonds (Geography) Rob Smith (Cultures & Communities) …
After Extinction
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesWhat comes after extinction? In ongoing debates about the Anthropocene, the question of extinction is very much present, in relation both to the anthropogenic Sixth Extinction and to the premediated extinction of humans. Our predominant understanding of extinction today relates …
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Ferguson Conjuncture: Why the Humanities Matter Now View Facebook Event Cosponsored with the Comparative Ethnic Studies Program, History Department, Africology Department, Cultures and Communities Program, Urban Studies Program, and College of Letters and Science.
C21 Fellows’ Presentations and Open House
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPresentations by Last Year's Fellows, Followed by an Open House 3:30 pm Curtin 175 | Fellows' Presentations 5:00 pm Curtin 939 | C21 Open House Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in welcoming a new assemblage of …