Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Digital Studies Institute Workshop Series: What Does Effective Teaching Look Like Right Now? (July 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75022 75022-19159633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Nicole Ellison and Cliff Lampe consider theoretical and practical perspectives of how to build online trust and community in humanities and social sciences remote classes.

Ellison is a professor of Information who studies computer-mediated communication, virtual communities, and relationship initiation and maintenance in online contexts.
Lampe is a professor of Information who researches the social and technical structures of large scale technology mediated communication.

Register here to join via BlueJeans Videoconferencing: https://forms.gle/45XzAcPiirZ6WAf97

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:00:50 -0400 2020-07-07T15:30:00-04:00 2020-07-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar july
Theorizing the Web Presents: Surveillance of Black Lives (July 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75117 75117-19269550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Dr. Allissa Richardson and Mutale Nkonde will discuss the layered and multifaceted impact of surveillance on Black people in the context of the Movement for Black Lives and the Covid-19 pandemic. Moderated by TtW Committee member and professor of Digital Studies, Dr. Apryl Williams, this talk will demonstrate how facial recognition systems used in policing; tracing software associated with the pandemic; and Black death imagery have created a treacherous techno-mediascape that extends both state matrices of power and systems of racialized, anti-Black oppression in the United States. This discussion will be streamed live on the TtW YouTube page and on Zoom. A recording will be available on our website. You can sign up here to receive the Zoom link and reminders about future episodes of TtW Presents:

https://theorizingtheweb.org/p/p2020/schedule/

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:04:08 -0400 2020-07-16T19:00:00-04:00 2020-07-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Presentation ttw
Digital Studies Institute Workshop Series: Privacy and Surveillance in Remote Teaching Platforms (August 4, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75030 75030-19324449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Kelly Cruz and Stephanie Rosen discuss the relationship between access to tools and the loss of privacy, and invite conversation about alternative models for online connection and community in remote classes.

Kelly Cruz is Associate General Counsel for U-M, specializing in student privacy rights, disability accommodations, student misconduct, and student policies.

Stephanie Rosen is a Senior Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist who brings insights from disability studies and activism to librarianship and digital scholarship.

Register here to join via Zoom Videoconferencing: https://forms.gle/45XzAcPiirZ6WAf97

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:22:54 -0400 2020-08-04T15:30:00-04:00 2020-08-04T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar privacy
Digital Studies Institute Workshop Series: Recognizing and Reducing Student Instability (August 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75023 75023-19159634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

John Cheney-Lippold and Megan Rim outline students' varying access to online learning, offering methods for structuring discussions of the persistent inequities the pandemic brings to the fore.

Cheney-Lippold is an associate professor of American Culture who teaches and writes on the relationship between digital media, identity, and the concept of privacy.

Rim is a PhD Candidate in American Culture who researches race, digital technologies, and surveillance and taught the Spring semester course “Life Under Surveillance in the Digital Age”

Register here to join via Zoom Videoconferencing: https://forms.gle/45XzAcPiirZ6WAf97

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jul 2020 13:58:12 -0400 2020-08-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-08-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar august
Critical Conversations (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78424 78424-20042429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please join the English Department next Wednesday on Zoom for the second Critical Conversations event of the semester. We have a great lineup of panelists and a very timely issue on the table, and we hope to see many of you there!

Sigrid Anderson | Hui-hui Hu | Silvia Lindtner | M. Remi Yergeau (chair)

Please RSVP by the end of the day on Tuesday to receive the Zoom Link

Sigrid Anderson is the Librarian for English Language and Literature and a lecturer in American Culture. Her research focuses on race and gender in print culture and new media. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010), and her current book project focuses on women writers’ use of regional magazines as a space to intervene in racialized land settlement questions in turn of the twentieth-century Los Angeles.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (2013), and a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015). He is a contributor to the upcoming BBC Radio 4 program "Under the Cloud" on October 13. A fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the NEA, he is an associate professor of English at UM.

Silvia Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). Lindtner's research interests include cultures and politics of tech production, labor, industry, and governance. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China's shifting place in the political economy of tech innovation. Her book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) demonstrates that the promise of entrepreneurial life influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.

Questions? Please contact Torre Puckett (puckettt@umich.edu), Sarah Jane Kerwin (sjkerwin@umich.edu), or Susan Scott Parrish (sparrish@umich.edu)

For more information and RSVP, visit the website: https://umcriticalconversations.wordpress.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:14:16 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion
Digital Studies Institute Teaching Workshop Series: Graduate Teaching During a Pandemic (October 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75259 75259-19379442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Paul Conway and Sarah Hughes discuss methods, guiding principles, past experiences, and advice for future teaching and learning in remote graduate seminars. This workshop will also invite conversation about graduate students’ experiences teaching remotely.

Paul Conway is Associate Professor in the School of Information, specializing in archival science, the digitization and preservation of cultural heritage resources, and the ethics of new information technologies.

Sarah Hughes is a doctoral candidate in the joint program of English department and Education, and a DSI graduate certificate student.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcQ9XSu-gzOMDsGz3k8G0Y7_1GFgUNi65Qm0dDzo9Z-rV50A/viewform?gxids=7628

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:53:07 -0400 2020-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar graduate teaching
Digital Studies Institute Teaching Workshop Series (November 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75260 75260-19379443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:44:06 -0400 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar
The Digital Underground: Theory+Practice (January 28, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80728 80728-20777544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98985906314.

You are invited to the new DSI’s research group, “The Digital Underground: Theory+Practice” (DIG-undr). "DIG-undr" is a project of the Tangent Lab, an open-ended research collective founded by Imani Cooper Mkandawire (DSI+Comparative Literature) and Irina Aristarkhova (DSI+Stamps School) to imagine and engender inclusive machines. Our group seeks to mine affinities and tensions between digital theory and various forms of practice (industry, art, design, activism), as well as the academy and its “outside” (the publics, the users, digital infrastructure).

The group will meet once a month in January, February, March and April 2021. This is an open research group and our first meeting will be on January 28, 2021, 2-4 pm on Zoom. At this first meeting we will discuss pressing research challenges related to theory+practice configurations, unique intellectual community around theory+practice collaborations at the DSI, and brainstorm a collective project. In Winter 2021, we are particularly interested in digital theory around AI, data science, machine learning, social robots, VR/AR and art, architecture, design and activism (democracy, racial justice, feminism, social change). Please see the poster attached herewith.

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Other Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:36:56 -0500 2021-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Other digitalug
Privacy@Michigan: Privacy Day Discussion with Guest Speaker Sarah Igo (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80919 80919-20832763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

What’s in a number? In the case of the U.S. Social Security number, the now-familiar nine digits hold a fascinating story about modern citizenship, governance and data. Starting in 1936, the SSN was affixed to more and more American lives, spurring new uses of punch cards and filing systems as well as novel dilemmas about personal data. This talk gives a brief history of the SSN and what it reveals about the changing state of “our” information.

Speaker: Sarah Igo, acclaimed author and historian
Presentation: “Nine Digits: A Brief History of Data, Privacy and the SSN”
Webinar: Thursday, January 28 • 4 – 5 p.m.
More info: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:36:43 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Privacy@Michigan Webinar - Speaker: Sarah Igo
Midwest Media Aesthetics Workshop 1 (February 12, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81679 81679-20941463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Register https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcOqrqjsiHNRWOR3EIcuw3h5A_N4RbPlm

Schedule

11:00 to 11:30: Opening Remarks by James J. Hodge (NU) and Introductions

11:30-1: Panel 1

Hanah Stiverson (UM), "'Relentlessly Patriotic’: The Commodification of Male Supremacy and White Nationalism”
Eric James (NU), "Network Romanticism: How Some Horny Boys Dreamed Up a Matchmaking Algorithm"
Evan Wisdom-Dawson (UC) “Extinction and Obsolescence: Reframing Environmental Media"

Response: Tung-Hui Hu (UM)

1-1:30: Lunch Break

1:30-3: Panel 2

Gary Kafer (UC), "Gaming Borders: Flow, Failure, and National Belonging in Papers, Please"
Jasmine An (UM), "Paper-work Poetics: the aesthetics of bureaucratic paperwork in 21st century poetry"
Myrna Moretti (NU), "Everyday User: Understanding Habit in the Electronic Era"

Response: Patrick Jagoda (UC)

3-3:15: Short break

3:15-4:15: Panel 3

Arianna Gass (UC), "Interpenetration and Clipping - Graphical Perversions"
Martha Henzy (UM), "Being Present in Virtual Space"

Response: James J. Hodge (NU)

4:15-4:30: Closing remarks

Sponsored by the Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University and the Center for Global Culture and Communication

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:47:00 -0500 2021-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar
Pathways to Publishing (Part II) (March 24, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83043 83043-21259014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Back by popular demand, DSI Postdoc Elisabetta Ferrari will present a reprised discussion of how to bring your Digital Studies work to publication. The conversation will include an overarching glimpse into the peer-reviewed journal publishing process and related topics, including article preparation and revision, journal research, working with editors, editorial timelines and guidelines, and more. Participants are encouraged to prepare questions in advance.

Elisabetta Ferrari is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan's Digital Studies Institute whose research addresses the social and political implications of digital technologies, with an emphasis on activism and social movements. Ferrari has published her research in academic journals such as New Media & Society, Media, Culture & Society and Communication, Culture & Critique.

Open to all in the university community. Please RSVP for the Zoom link and share with interested graduate students.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTG1ZBZLo4RswSDDyV0C64ykex3CbY-KZi9e1K17AODnFuWQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:26:44 -0400 2021-03-24T14:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Workshop / Seminar