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Lisa Nakamura Public Lecture and Seminar

Nakamura
March 25, 2016
All Day
Hale Hall Black Cultural Center/Page Hall

Professor Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures and the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She co-facilitates the FemTechNet Project, a network of educators, activists, librarians, and researchers interested in digital feminist pedagogy. She is also coordinator of Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of: Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White) (Routledge, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2007, winner of the Asian American Studies Association award in Cultural Studies); Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002); and Race In Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gilbert Rodman) (Routledge, 2000).

Lisa Nakamura Seminar
11-1pm |  Room 110A, Frank W. Hale Jr., Black Cultural Center, 154 W. 12th Ave
Seminar: “Radical Digital Pedagogy and Woman of Color Feminism”

Lisa Nakamura Public Lecture
5-7pm | Page Hall 20, “Workers Without Bodies: A Feminist Critique of Labor on the Internet”

The lecture will be a summary of ideas from her forthcoming book with University of Minnesota Press and the seminar will address radical digital pedagogy and woman of color feminism. Her scholarship interrogates the racial/ethnic assumptions embedded in the representations of race in digital media, particularly within gaming cultures. Currently Nakamura is working on a new monograph on Massively Multiplayer Online Role playing games, the transnational racialized labor, and avatarial capital in a “postracial” world.