LISA NAKAMURA (2014-15 Digital Humanities Lansdowne Speaker)
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, American Cultures, and Screen Arts and Cultures
Coordinator, Digital Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Nakamura is the author of Digitizing Race (Minnesota), Cybertypes (Routledge), “Indigenous Circuits” (American Quarterly), “Scambaiting, Digital Show-Space, and the Racial Violence of Social Media” (Visual Culture), “Gaming Rhetoric as Gender Capital” (Ada), and “Words with Friends” (PMLA), among many others. She also facilitates FemTechNet, a network of educators, activists, librarians, and researchers interested in digital feminist pedagogy.
MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY FROM THE MARGINS: RACE, GENDER, AND INDIGENOUS LABOR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 12:30pm
David Strong Building, Room C116
Lansdowne Lecture
Presented by the Digital Humanities Committee
URL: https://maker.uvic.ca/nakamura/
Poster: https://maker.uvic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nakamura.pdf
From 1965-1975 the legendary Silicon Valley company Fairchild Semiconductor operated a state-of-the-art integrated circuit manufacturing plant in Shiprock, New Mexico on Navajo land. In the face of concerns about high-tech pollution, increasingly empowered labor organizations, and a newly politicized and visible American Indian civil rights movement, indigenous electronic workers at Shiprock were pressed into service as examples of the peaceful coexistence and integration of the past and the future, the primitive and the modern, creativity and capitalism. Navajo women workers were described as ideal predigital digital workers, uniquely suited to the job by temperament, culture, and gender.
THE DIGITAL AFTERLIFE OF THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WOMAN OF COLOR THEORY AND ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 2:30pm
PACTAC, Technology Enterprise Facility (TEF), Room 170
Lansdowne Seminar
Presented by the Digital Humanities Committee, PACTAC, and the Maker Lab in the Humanities
URL: https://maker.uvic.ca/nakamura/
Poster: https://maker.uvic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nakamuraPACTAC.pdf
RSVP to ctheory@uvic.ca
Writing by foundational woman of color feminists has found new life on Tumblr. This paper analyzes the platform’s possibilities and constraints for insurgent critique.
If you have questions about Dr. Nakamura’s visit, then please email Jentery Sayers. Dr. Nakamura’s visit is supported by the Digital Humanities Committee and the Lansdowne Short-Term Visitor fund at UVic.
Jentery Sayers
Assistant Professor, English
Faculty Member, Cultural, Social, and Political Thought
Director, Maker Lab in the Humanities
University of Victoria
jentery@uvic.ca | maker.uvic.ca