Category: Research

“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers: Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”

[ February 28, 2013; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of  Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (with T. Boellstorff, B. Nardi, and C. Pearce; Princeton University Press, 2012), and the author of  Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the […]

“The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Power”—Joan Morgan

[ March 8, 2013; 3:15 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Collier House
Free Admission
UO campus
UO School of Music and Dance: A Presentation by the THEME Colloquium
Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice. She is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, […]

CSWS Noon Talk, Kate Mondloch — Mind Over Matter: Mariko Mori and the Neuroscientific Turn

[ January 23, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] a

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330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Room
1408 University St., UO campus
Free & open to the public

“This talk examines the neuroscientific turn across the humanities, and in relationship to art history in particular. I explore new media artist Mariko Mori’s (b. 1967, Japan) multimedia installation ‘Wave UFO’ as a provocative entry into debates about the increasing influence of […]

Phaedra Livingstone: CSWS Research Matters | Fall 2012

“Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales: A Feminist Analysis of Communication Practice in Exhibitions,” by Phaedra Livingstone, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA) and Coordinator, Museum Studies
Phaedra Livingstone’s paper is now available online in the Fall 2012 issue of CSWS Research Matters.
From her paper:

“I […]

Fembot Collective Launches Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

The Fembot Collective launched its long anticipated online publication Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology in early November. The inaugural issue, “Conversations Across the Field,” features articles by Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz, Mia Consalvo, Sarah Kember, Krista Geneviève Lynes, Vicki Mayer, Lisa Nakamura, Kim Sawchuk, and Carol Stabile. Fembot invites you […]

Michelle McKinley’s work wins NSF grant

Law professor McKinley’s work on enslaved groups wins NSF grant | Inside Oregon
Michelle McKinley is a CSWS faculty affiliate and member of the CSWS advisory board.