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This Thursday & Friday: Dartmouth Hosts Talks about Race and Technology!!
Free and open to the public. Share, share widely!
Thursday February 23rd 2012 Carson L01, 4:30pm
Lisa Nakamura, “Trash Talk” as Waste and as Resource: The Rhetoric of Instrumental Racism as Procedural Strategy in Online Games”
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media and Cinema Studies Department and Professor of Asian American
Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor
of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal
of Cultural Studies. She is working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds.
Friday February 24th 2012 Haldeman L01, 2:30 – 5:30pm
Robot Skin: The Consumption of Race through Technoscience
Panel with Thuy Linh Tu, Minh-ha Pham, Aimee Bahng, and moderated by Lisa Nakamura
Reception to Follow
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU, where she is also the director of the American Studies Program. She is the author
of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Asian Chic (Duke, 2011) and co-editor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. She is currently conducting research
on the uses of science in the multinational cosmetics industry.
Minh-Ha T. Pham is an Assistant Professor in the History of Art & Visual Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University. Broadly, her research traces
the historical relations of art, society, and technology through fashion. Her research appears in a wide range of academic and popular publications including Feminist Media Studies (2012); Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 76 26.1 (2011); Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36.2 (Winter 2010-11); Ms. magazine (November 2011) and The American Prospect.
Aimee Bahng is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her book manuscript, “Speculative Acts: Science and Fiction in an Age of Finance Capitalism” examines cultural narratives
of futurity, including but not limited to financial discourses of security and risk as well as speculative fiction by North American women of color. Parts of her research have been published in MELUS and Critical Studies.
Respondent:
Lisa Nakamura (also speaking the day before, Feb 23rd 2012 Carson L01, 4:30pm)
Lisa Nakamura is the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media and Cinema Studies Department and Professor of Asian American
Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor
of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Race After the Internet (Routledge, forthcoming 2011). She has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, PMLA, Cinema Journal, The Women’s Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal
of Cultural Studies. She is working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Workers Without Bodies: Towards a Theory of Race and Digital Labor in Virtual Worlds.
These talks are sponsored by the Digital Humanities Chair and Asian American Studies.
Hope to See You There!