Announcing the 2024-25 History and Theory of New Media Season
The History and Theory of New Media lecture series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The series promotes new, interdisciplinary approaches to questions about the uses, meanings, causes, and effects of rapid or dramatic shifts in techno-infrastructure, information management, and forms of mediated expression. The series is free and open to the public.
Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
2024
9/30 Muscogee (Creek) Tribal Town Futurity: Decolonial Imagining of Land Back
Laura Harjo, Mvskoke scholar and Associate Professor of Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminisms, University of Oklahoma
Online event, Zoom and YouTube links forthcoming. Presented as part of BCNM's Indigenous Technologies program. Co-sponsored by the Native American Studies program, the Arts Research Center (ARC), and the Department of City & Regional Planning.
10/11 Games @ Berkeley
Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future; Bo Ruberg, Professor, Film & Media Studies, School of Humanities, UC Irvine; Alenda Y. Chang, Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Christopher Goetz, Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; Phil Salvador, Library Director, Video Game History Foundation; Danny O'Dwyer, Founder, Noclip; Henry Lowood, Harold C. Hohbach Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections and Curator for Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries
In-person event at Banatao Auditorium (310 Sutardja Dai Hall). Presented as a History and Theory of New Media special event. Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
11/25 The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Knowledge-Based Research Framework
Mariaelena Huambachano, Professor, Environmental Humanities and Indigenous Studies, Syracuse University
Online event, Zoom and YouTube links forthcoming. Presented as part of BCNM's Indigenous Technologies program. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC).
2025
4/10 and 4/11 BCNM 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference
BCNN alumni Andrea Gagliano, Brooke Belisle, Caitlin Marshall, Cesar Torres, David Humphrey, Katherine Chandler, Kris Paulsen, Laura Devendorf, Naomi Bragin, R. Stuart Geiger, Tiare Ribeaux, Therese Tierney, Will Payne (and more!)
In-person event at Banatao Auditorium (Sutardja Dai Hall). Co-sponsored by the School of Information, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of African American Studies.
4/23 Data Are Made, Not Found
danah boyd, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
In-person event at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Studio 310. Presented with the Digital Humanities program, as the keynote lecture of the Digital Humanities Fair and the closing lecture of BCNM's 20th anniverary year. Co-sponsored by Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the School of Information.
Accessibility
BCNM events are free and open to the public. Our 2024-25 History and Theory of New Media lecture series will be held in person on the Berkeley campus, with the exception of our event with Laura Harjo, Muscogee (Creek) Tribal Town Futurity: Decolonial Imagining of Land Back, and our event with Mariaelena Huambachano, The Khipu Model: An Indigenous Knowledge-Based Research Framework, which will be held online, on Zoom and YouTube. We post video, with captioning, of our in-person events to our YouTube channel within a few weeks of the event date. For our online events, we provide live-captioning in Zoom and offer a separate Streamtext window for live-captioning with options to customize text size and display. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions.