Research Symposiums
Upcoming Research Symposium
May 16, 2022
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Viral Cultures: HIV/AIDS Cure and Curation in the Visual AIDS Archive Project
In her new book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press) Marika Cifor delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive. She details how contemporary activists, artists, and curators utilize these records to build upon the cultural legacy of 1980s and 1990s American AIDS activism to challenge the injustices that undergird current AIDS crises. She analyzes the power structures through which these archives are mediated, positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, reanimating the past in the digital age.
In this talk, Cifor proposes activist archiving as cure. AIDS activists, advocacy organizations, biomedical researchers and physicians, and people living with HIV/AIDS have devoted vast energy and resources to finding a medical cure for HIV/AIDS. Now well into the fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, a medical cure remains elusive. Since 1994, Visual AIDS has documented, collected, preserved, and made accessible the records of artists living with HIV and estates of artists who have perished. The holistic cure Visual AIDS demands with its activist archiving is requisite to responding to an epidemic that is political and cultural as much as biomedical. The Archive Project highlights the material and conceptual affordances of archiving as anti-AIDS activism. Its records and their activation through archival and curatorial practices hold imaginative capacities for challenging the persistent injustices that characterize the ongoing AIDS pandemic.
Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and adjunct faculty in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. Her research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, and HIV-status are represented and how they document and represent themselves in archives and digital cultures. Cifor is the author Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). She has published extensively in critical information studies, gender and sexuality studies, and digital studies on topics including affect and archives, feminist data studies, and community-based information practices.
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Past Research Symposiums
| Speaker | Date | Symposium Title |
|---|---|---|
| Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor of Science Technology and International Affairs (STIA) Program, Georgetown University | 5/9/2022 | Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India |
| Benjamin Xie and Jean Salac, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars | 5/2/2022 | Benjamin Xie: “Roles of Student Feedback for Equity in Large Computing Courses”; Jean Salac: “Moving from Equity to Justice in Computing Instruction for Youth” |
| Charlotte Lee, Associate Professor, UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering | 4/25/2022 | Organizational Ecologies and the Development of Information Infrastructures |
| Yunhe Feng, Maddy Jalbert and Lassana Magassa, UW Information School postdoctoral scholars | 4/18/2022 | Postdoc lightning talks |
| Kayla DesPortes, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and the Learning Sciences at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | 4/11/2022 | In Pursuit of Culturally Sustaining Education and Technology: Examining the Design of Artistic Computing and Data Literacy Experiences |
| Morteza Dehghani, Associate Professor of psychology, computer science, and the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern California | 2/28/2022 | Morality, Hate and Computation: Integrating diverse data to study extreme moral behavior in the wild |
| Nicholas Weber, UW iSchool | 2/14/2022 | An Architecture of Accountability for Civic Institutions |
| Cait McKinney, Assistant Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University | 1/31/2022 | On Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies |
| Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies, UCLA | 11/01/2021 | Visual Epistemology and Information Studies |
| Daniel Greene, assistant professor, University of Maryland | 10/25/2021 | The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope |
| Gordon Pennycook, assistant professor, University of Regina | 10/18/2021 | Lazy thinking and inattention to accuracy drive misinformation on social media |
| Afra Mashhadi, assistant professor, UW Bothell | 10/11/2021 | Analyzing biases that impact visit estimation of urban parks & green spaces |
| Michelle Johnson-Jennings, professor, UW School of Social Work | 10/4/2021 | Indigenous Land-Based Healing |
| Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public | 5/24/2021 | Student-Faculty Collaborations at the Center for an Informed Public |
| Joe Bak-Coleman, Kolina Koltai and Rachel Moran, postdoctoral researchers, UW Center for an Informed Public | 5/17/2021 | Postdoctoral Research at the Center for an Informed Public |
| Tara Dawson McGuinness, fellow and senior adviser, New Practice Lab | 5/10/2021 | Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology |
| Libby Hemphill, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information | 5/3/2021 | How Should We Save Social Media Data? |
| Adele Vrana and Anasuya Sengupta, co-directors and co founders, Whose Knowledge? | 4/26/2021 | Knowledge (in)justice online: the principles and practices of Whose Knowledge? |
| Jennifer Wemigwans, Assistant Professor - Adult Education and Community Development Program, Dept of Leadership, Higher and Adult Ed, University of Toronto | 4/19/2021 | Digital Bundles and the Role of the Helper |
| Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics | 4/12/2021 | Technological Refusal: Reflections on a Politics of Computing |
| Kevin Clark, director of original animation, Netflix | 4/5/2021 | Media Youth: Tech, TV & Games, Oh My! |
| Nicole Cooke, Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Associate Professor, School of Information Science, U of SC | 3/29/2021 | Re-envisioning LIS: Activating Social Justice |
| Roderic Crooks, Department of Informatics, UC-Irvine | 12/7/2020 | Access Is Capture: Edtech, Datafication, and Racial Capitalism |
| Andre Brock, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology | 11/30/2020 | Interrogating the Role of Belief in Technology Design and Use |
| Marisa Duarte, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University | 11/16/2020 | McDonalds WiFi is Not a Solution: Challenges to Digital Divide Research in Indian Country Amid COVID-19 |
| Tanu Mitra, UW iSchool | 11/9/2020 | Algorithmic Governance: Auditing Search and Recommendation Algorithms for Misinformation |
| Bill Howe, UW iSchool | 11/2/2020 | Integrative Data Equity Systems |
| Alicia Cheng, MGMT Design | 10/26/2020 | This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot |
| Tonia Sutherland, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa | 10/19/2020 | Speaking for the Dead |
| Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University | 10/12/2020 | Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society |
| Temi Odumosu, Malmö University, Sweden | 10/5/2020 | Colonial JPEGs and Questions of Care in Collections |
| Sid Suri, principal researcher, Microsoft | 4/27/2020 | Ghost Work: The Labor that Powers AI |
| Eric Gordon, director, Engagement Lab at Emerson College | 4/22/2020 | Meaningful Inefficiencies: Incorporating play and care into the design of socio-technical systems |
| Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google | 2/14/2020 | The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics |
| Bernie Boscoe, postdoctoral researcher, UW iSchool | 2/7/2020 | With Strings Attached: Reusing Open Data in Research |
| Bo Zhao, assistant professor, Geography, UW | 2/3/2020 | Deep Fake in Geography? When Geospatial Data Encounter Artificial Intelligence |
| Lisa Nathan, associate professor, University of British Columbia School of Information | 1/27/2020 | Changing Course: Information Schools & Our Climate Crisis |
| Zetta Elliott, children's literature author | 1/21/2020 | Fairies Are for White Girls' and Other Lies My Sister Told Me |
| Andrea Hartzler, associate professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, UW | 12/2/2019 | UnBIASED: Understanding Biased Patient-Provider Interaction and Supporting Enhanced Discourse |
| Amy J. Ko, associate professor, UW iSchool | 11/26/2019 | Big Ideas Behind the Whyline |
| Jens Molbak, founder, WinWin | 11/25/2019 | Building a 'Tri-Sector' Open Data Tech Platform to Drive Societal Progress at Scale |
| Greg Vanderheiden, director & founder, Trace R&D Center, University of Maryland - College Park | 11/22/2019 | Underestimating Barriers Posted by Cognition and Digital Literacy |
| Michelle H. Martin, Beverly Cleary Professor for Children & Youth Services, UW iSchool | 11/18/2019 | A tribute to black childhood in music, story, and pictures |
| Michaeil Best, associate professor, Georgia Institute of Technology | 11/5/2019 | Value Sensitive Design & U.N. Peacekeepers |
| Anind K. Dey, Amy J. Ko & Jacob O. Wobbrock, UW iSchool faculty members | 11/4/2019 | Lasting Impact: A Panel with 3 Recent iSchool Award Winners |
| Emma Spiro, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 10/29/2019 | Online Social Behavior during Crisis Events |
| William Jones, research professor emeritus, UW iSchool | 10/28/2019 | Information, knowledge and successful aging |
| Megan Finn, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 10/21/2019 | We are all well: A partial history of public information infrastructures after disasters |
| Chirag Shah, associate professor, UW iSchool | 10/14/2019 | Counteracting Bias and Increasing Fairness in Search |
| Jevin West, associate professor, UW iSchool | 10/7/2019 | Calling BS in an Age of Misinformation |
| Tung Bui, chair, professor & director, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawai'i | 9/30/2019 | Toward the institutionalization of communication practices in social media platforms |
| S. Craig Watkins, director, Institute for Media Innovation, University of Texas at Austin | 6/10/2019 | The Digital Age: Why Educators Should Develop Future Ready Schools |
| Hans Jochen Scholl, professor, UW iSchool | 6/3/2019 | Disaster Response in the Pacific Northwest |
| Miranda Belarde-Lewis, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 5/20/2019 | Indigenous Curation: How Community Voices, Tribal History, and Native Art Can Inform Information Science |
| Julia Flanders, professor of practice & director, Digital Scholarship Group, Northeastern University | 5/13/2019 | The Shape of Data |
| Susan Hildreth, professor of practice, UW iSchool | 5/21/2018 | Co-Creating MLIS Curriculum for Cultural Competence and Community-Driven Learning: Making Progress for the Future of Libraries |
| Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Associate Dean for Research, Syracuse University | 4/12/2018 | Gravity Spy: Humans, Machines and The Future of Citizen Science |
| Anna Lauren Hoffmann, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 1/8/2018 | Toward a Conception of Data Violence: Data Justice Beyond Distributions |
| Jevin West, assistant professor, UW iSchool | 12/4/2017 | Calling BS on Phrenology 2.0 |
| Batya Friedman, professor, UW iSchool; and Emily Bender, professor, UW Linguistics Department | 11/20/2017 | Articulating How NLP Data and Systems Do and Don't Represent the World: Toward Mitigating Bias and Enabling Better Science |
| Joseph T. Tennis, associate professor, UW iSchool | 11/13/2017 | Through Formal Analysis and Theories of Meaning: Extending the Trajectory of S. R. Ranganathan’s Theoretical Frameworks in Classification Research |
| Bob Boiko, teaching professor, UW iSchool | 11/6/2017 | Figuring Out What’s Next in Pedagogy and Learning Systems |
| Volker Wulf, Professor of Information Systems and New Media at the University of Siegen Germany | 12/5/2016 | Grounded Design: A Practise-based Approach to the Design and Use of IT Artefacts |
| Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland-College Park | 10/6/2016 | Interactive Visual Discovery in Event Analytics: Exploring Education & Other Data |