UODS Roundtable 4/1 1pm: UO graduate certificate in New Media

Digital Scholars Roundtable:
UO Graduate Certificate in New Media
Friday April 1 1:00-2:30
McKenzie Collaboration Center
175 McKenzie

The worlds in which scholars now live and work are undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. In the humanities and social sciences, scholarship on new media and culture continues to proliferate, myriad efforts to digitize texts and artifacts are underway, and researchers across disciplines are learning how to develop and use digital tools. All these changes affect and alter how we do research, how we publish it, and how we think about the products of scholarly research; indeed, they alter what it means to know anything at all.

As our graduate students – MA and PhD alike – enter an ever more competitive job market, their experience and proficiency with new media will also contribute to their success as scholars and potential employees. UO Digital Scholars have been organizing an effort to create a graduate certificate program in new media and culture. We hope you (faculty, students, administrators) will join us for a roundtable discussion about the possibility of such a certificate program.

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Next UODS Works-in-Progress event: Friday 4/15 noon – 1:30
Ed Madison (SOJC)
Tween TV
Engaging 5th Graders in Critical Thinking
with Digital Video Production and Mobile Media

3/18/11 Day of Digital Humanities: sign on now

The general invitation to participate in the 3^rd annual Day of Digital Humanities is out!  Though the ‘official’ deadline to apply appears to be 3/14/11, you may join up to the last moment to add your voice, images, and critique to this international collaborative event.

Willing and interested in documenting what you do DH-wise that day? DDH is open to tweets, blogging, Flickr-streams, Flip-video, hyperlinks, Facebook feeds, etc. Get the details here: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011. Worth paying special attention to their directions for WordPress tags (all of which will use the prefix DDH-).

UO Digital Scholars will announce  a UO-specific Twitter #hashtag for DDH soon, so that we may  aggregate UO-specific DDH tweets here.

Roland Kelts on Multipolar Japan, 3/10 4pm

Pop Culture from a Multipolar Japan
Roland  Kelts, Author and Journalist
Knight Library Browsing Room
March 10, 4:00 pm

Is there something more to the U.S.’s fascination with Japanese anime and manga?  How are anime films and manga comics cultural channeling zones, opened by the horrors of war and disaster and animated by the desire to assemble a world of new looks, feelings and identities? Roland Kelts addresses the movement of Japanese culture into the West as sign and symptom of broader reanimations.  With uncertainty now the norm, style, he argues, is trumping identity, explaining, in part, the success of Japanese pop and fashion, design and cuisine in the West.  As Western mindsets encounter a rapid decline in longstanding binaries – good/evil, woman/man, black/white – Japan’s cultural narratives evolve in borderless, unstable worlds where characters transform, morality is multifaceted, and endings inconclusive.  Animation allows an aesthetic freedom wherein these transformations and gender ambiguity may be given fuller play than in live action films.  Nothing appears fixed.  No surprise, perhaps, argues Kelts, coming from the only people to have suffered the immediate transformations of two atomic bombs and the instant denigration of their supreme polar father: the Japanese Emperor.

Roland Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer, editor and lecturer who  divides his time between New York and Tokyo. He is the author of Japanamerica : How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US and the forthcoming novel, Access. He has presented on contemporary Japanese culture worldwide and has taught courses in Japanese popular culture at numerous universities. His fiction and nonfiction appear in such publications as  Zoetrope: All Story, Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Japan, The Millions, The Japan Times, Animation Magazine, Bookforum, and The Village Voice. He is the Editor in Chief of the Anime Masterpieces screening and discussion program, the commentator for National Public Radio’s series, “Pacific Rim Diary,” and the author of a weekly column for the Daily Yomiuri newspaper. His blog is: http://japanamerica.blogspot.com/

This event is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and cosponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. For more info, please call 541-346-1521.

IT Connections interview with Gardner Campbell

IT Connections writer Nate Gilles interviewed Gardner Campbell after his November talk at Knight Library. Link to that interview (published 2/28/11) here:

http://it.uoregon.edu/itconnections/gardner-campbell

Sorry, this link was broken (redundant URLs) for a few days!