*From:* gam351@nyu.edu <gam351@nyu.edu>
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:53 AM
*Subject:* CFP: Culture Mapping 2020
Hi there,
I was wondering whether you could circulate the below CFP for this year’s
Culture Mapping symposium to the folks in your department — we think it’d
be of interest! Thanks!
NewYorkScapes, NYUDH, and the Digital Culture/s Colloquium are thrilled to
announce the 2020 Culture Mapping Symposium, to take place April 17-18 at
NYU’s Washington Square campus. The deadline for submissions is February
17, 2020.
This year, we are also glad to be able to offer two travel grants for
students and/or early career practitioners. Simply apply inside the
submission form! Presenters can expect to hear back in March.
*CULTURE MAPPING 2020: FUTURES*
*CALL FOR PAPERS, PROJECTS, AND WORKS-IN-PROGRESS*
In *Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media*, scholar and feminist
digital humanities practitioner Jacqueline Wernimont examines recordkeeping
technologies used to account for human lives and bodies, beginning as early
as the 15th century. The book, in part a robust critical historiography,
challenges us to interrogate and engage mindfully with contemporary data
issues and methods, and with the ways in which they shape our narratives
regarding the value of lives and cultures.
In the introduction, Dr. Wernimont describes the project as “speculative
and experimental, reading mediations and making a mess of apparent order in
service of alternative futures.” By tracing the long, fraught histories of
technologies of human enumeration, *Numbered Lives *refuses to take for
granted the epistemological and ontological models undergirding quotidian
quantum media; for Wernimont, it is through this interdisciplinary and
media-archaeological that “we can [perhaps] find matrices that will help us
create more just futures.”
Culture Mapping 2020 takes the occasion of a new decade to assemble
scholars, students, artists, and other practitioners to reflect together on
their own work and processes to a similar end: in service of alternative,
capacious futures that feature justice, accessibility, and critical
pedagogy as core concerns. We invite proposals that explore the
intersection of culture studies, “mapping” in its myriad registers, and
digital methods through the lens of this theme.
Proposals from across the humanities, arts, and social sciences are
welcome. Faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, staff
and administrators, and community members are all encouraged to
participate. Potential areas of engagement include but are not limited to:
• Digital cartography & GIS as tools for humanities research and teaching
• Visualizing literary and historical materials, including speculative
fiction
• Digital-born media, art, literature, and games that thematize futurity
• Resistant, anti-racist, decolonial, indigenous, and feminist mapping
• City and community planning; urban studies
• Speculative design and emerging technologies, including XR and
participatory media
• Activist methodologies and pedagogies
• Data management planning and digital project maintenance
Submissions can take the form of traditional paper / project presentations
(10-20 minutes), five-minute lightning talks, performances, installations,
or roundtables (30-40 minutes). You may also propose a workshop on a
methodology — technical or otherwise — in which you have expertise and
which you feel would be of broad interest.
To submit a proposal, please complete the online submission form.
(nyu-2Ddot-2Dyamm-2Dtrack.appspot.com)
*The
submission deadline is February 17, 2019.*
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