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YouTube and Podcast Series for Academic Departments and Centers

C. R. also produces, supports, or otherwise participates in several academic YouTube and Podcast series. Below are two examples: "Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series" from the UW Department of English and the Walter G. Chapin Simpson Center YouTube Channel

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"Literature, Language, Culture" on YouTube:

Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte: Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, and “The Golden Shovel”
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Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte: Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, and “The Golden Shovel”

Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte discuss how the poetic form from Terrance Hayes' "The Golden Shovel" grew out of deeper history of race and gender in America to help us better contextualize the famous Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool." Listen to the podcast version of this talk and more: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager, Jacob Huebsch. About the Series: This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture" and the Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry & Poetics. These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual vitality, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About Pimone Triplett: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/pimone-triplett About Charles LaPorte: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/charles-laporte About this episode's host, C. R. Grimmer: ✔︎ https://crgrimmer.com/ Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ - More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/
Laura Chrisman and Colette Moore on "Colonization in Reverse"
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Laura Chrisman and Colette Moore on "Colonization in Reverse"

Professors Laura Chrisman and Colette Moore discuss the different ways literature and language studies can function together when reading and teaching historical and literary texts. In this episode, you will learn more about the poem, "Colonization in Reverse," it's historical context, and how literature and language studies inform one another. Key texts include the poem, "Colonization in Reverse" by "Miss Lou" (Louise Bennett Coverley). Listen to the podcast version of this talk and more: ✔︎https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Lead Video Editor and Project Manager Jacob Huebsch. Episode Contents: [coming soon] About the Series: This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture" and the Annual Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry & Poetics. These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual vitality, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About Laura Chrisman: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/laura-chrisman About Colette Moore: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/colette-moore About this episode's host, C. R. Grimmer: ✔︎ https://crgrimmer.com/ Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ - More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/
Literature & Culture Lesson Plan: Prof. Ishii on Asian American, Queer, and University Studies
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Literature & Culture Lesson Plan: Prof. Ishii on Asian American, Queer, and University Studies

Rebecca Taylor gives a summary of the lesson plan she developed for literature and cultural studies-focused courses featuring Douglas Ishii’s Literature, Language, Culture episode, “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory.” Below, you will find a link to the lesson plan. We encourage you to adapt it for yourself and your students. If you are using this video in a training course for instructors, you can embed this video and attach the lesson plan, encouraging instructors to share their own adaptations. Through these lesson plans, we hope to expand the dialogue between the Department of English and educators in college and language arts classrooms. A video and podcast series, each Department of English Literature, Language, Culture episode highlights a department member’s research and teaching, along with resources to support viewers’ learning. We have curated a video playlist of six lesson plans related to three episodes: Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Douglas Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory “, and Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the threes episodes, Rebecca developed two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses. You can view the full playlist on our channel or by following the playlist link: ✔︎ https://bit.ly/LessonPlanPlayList Douglas Ishii’s Episode: ✔︎ https://youtu.be/ysZuObMO5sM Rebecca Taylor’s Literature and Cultural Studies Lesson Plan for Douglas Ishii’s Episode: ✔︎ INSERT LINK Rebecca Taylor’s Composition Lesson Plan for Douglas Ishii’s Episode: ✔︎ Video: https://youtu.be/yWjTmzfvM1U ✔︎ Lesson Plan: INSERT LINK Listen to the podcast version of this series and more: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch. About the Series: This video is part of the public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture.” These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual inquiry, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About this episode's host, Rebecca Taylor: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/rebecca-taylor Rebecca Taylor is a doctoral student, instructor, and Assistant Director of UW in the High Schools in the University of Washington’s Department of English, where she studies digital literacies, multimodal composition, and writing center pedagogies. She has taught academic writing for the better part of the last decade, most recently in Hong Kong, where she was a founding member of the University of Hong Kong’s Digital Literacy Lab. She has also been an English Language Fellow in Indonesia, and before that, an editor in Korea and Seattle. She has also taught at Edmonds College, which spurred her interest in scholarship centered in two-year intuitions, particularly in composition and writing center studies. Broadly, her academic interests lie in the intersection of multimodal literacy, digital literacies, writing center pedagogy, and student composition. Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/
Literature & Culture Lesson Plan: Lydia Heberling on Multimodal Literature + Indigenous Sovereignty
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Literature & Culture Lesson Plan: Lydia Heberling on Multimodal Literature + Indigenous Sovereignty

Rebecca Taylor gives a summary of the lesson plan she developed for literature and cultural studies-focused courses featuring Lydia Heberling’s “Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series” episode, “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” Below, you will find a link to the actual lesson plan. We encourage you to adapt it for yourself and your students. If you are using this video in a training course for instructors, you can embed this video and attach the lesson plan, encouraging instructors to share their own adaptations. Through these lesson plans, we hope to expand the dialogue between the Department of English and educators in college and language arts classrooms. A video and podcast series, each Department of English Literature, Language, Culture episode highlights a department member’s research and teaching, along with resources to support viewers’ learning. We have curated a video playlist of six lesson plans related to three episodes: Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Douglas Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory “, and Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the threes episodes, Rebecca developed two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses. You can view the full playlist on our channel or by following the playlist link: ✔︎ https://bit.ly/LessonPlanPlayList Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ https://youtu.be/-RM9l7YgznA Rebecca Taylor’s Literature and Cultural Studies Lesson Plan for Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ *COMING SOON* Rebecca Taylor’s Composition Lesson Plan for Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ Video: https://youtu.be/_G3cYXImsjE ✔︎ Lesson Plan: *COMING SOON* Listen to the podcast version of this series and more: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch. About the Series: This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture.” These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual inquiry, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About this episode's host, Rebecca Taylor: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/rebecca-taylor Rebecca Taylor is a doctoral student, instructor, and Assistant Director of UW in the High Schools in the University of Washington’s Department of English, where she studies digital literacies, multimodal composition, and writing center pedagogies. She has taught academic writing for the better part of the last decade, most recently in Hong Kong, where she was a founding member of the University of Hong Kong’s Digital Literacy Lab. She has also been an English Language Fellow in Indonesia, and before that, an editor in Korea and Seattle. She has also taught at Edmonds College, which spurred her interest in scholarship centered in two-year intuitions, particularly in composition and writing center studies. Broadly, her academic interests lie in the intersection of multimodal literacy, digital literacies, writing center pedagogy, and student composition. Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/
Composition Lesson Plan: Prof. Michelle Liu's "Literature, Language, Culture" Episode
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Composition Lesson Plan: Prof. Michelle Liu's "Literature, Language, Culture" Episode

Rebecca Taylor gives a summary of the lesson plan she developed for composition-focused courses featuring Michelle Liu’s “Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series” episode, “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19.” Below, you will find a link to the lesson plan. We encourage you to adapt it for yourself and your students. If you are using this video in a training course for instructors, you can embed this video and attach the lesson plan, encouraging instructors to share their own adaptations. Through these lesson plans, we hope to expand the dialogue between the Department of English and educators in college and language arts classrooms. A video and podcast series, each Department of English Literature, Language, Culture episode highlights a department member’s research and teaching, along with resources to support viewers’ learning. We have curated a video playlist of six lesson plans related to three episodes: Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Douglas Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory “, and Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the three episodes, Rebecca developed two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses. You can view the full playlist on our channel or by following the playlist link: ✔︎ https://bit.ly/LessonPlanPlayList Michelle Liu’s Episode: ✔︎ https://youtu.be/RMy0A-wz3BU Rebecca Taylor’s Composition Lesson Plan for Michelle Liu’s Episode: ✔︎ *COMING SOON* Rebecca Taylor’s Literature and Cultural Studies Lesson Plan for Michelle Liu’s Episode: ✔︎ Video: https://youtu.be/erBNumBP6Is ✔︎ Lesson Plan: *COMING SOON* Listen to the podcast version of this series and more: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch. About the Series: This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture.” These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual inquiry, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About this episode's host, Rebecca Taylor: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/rebecca-taylor Rebecca Taylor is a doctoral student, instructor, and Assistant Director of UW in the High Schools in the University of Washington’s Department of English, where she studies digital literacies, multimodal composition, and writing center pedagogies. She has taught academic writing for the better part of the last decade, most recently in Hong Kong, where she was a founding member of the University of Hong Kong’s Digital Literacy Lab. She has also been an English Language Fellow in Indonesia, and before that, an editor in Korea and Seattle. She has also taught at Edmonds College, which spurred her interest in scholarship centered in two-year intuitions, particularly in composition and writing center studies. Broadly, her academic interests lie in the intersection of multimodal literacy, digital literacies, writing center pedagogy, and student composition. Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/
Composition Lesson Plan: Lydia Heberling on Reading Multimodal Literature and Indigenous Sovereignty
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Composition Lesson Plan: Lydia Heberling on Reading Multimodal Literature and Indigenous Sovereignty

Rebecca Taylor gives a summary of the lesson plan she developed for composition-focused courses featuring Lydia Heberling’s “Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue Series” episode, “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” Below, you will find a link to the actual lesson plan. We encourage you to adapt it for yourself and your students. If you are using this video in a training course for instructors, you can embed this video and attach the lesson plan, encouraging instructors to share their own adaptations. Through these lesson plans, we hope to expand the dialogue between the Department of English and educators in college and language arts classrooms. A video and podcast series, each Department of English Literature, Language, Culture episode highlights a department member’s research and teaching, along with resources to support viewers’ learning. We have curated a video playlist of six lesson plans related to three episodes: Michelle Liu’s “What Asian American Studies, Literature, and Art Teaches us During COVID-19”, Douglas Ishii’s “Crazy Rich Asians, Critical University Studies, and Queer of Color Theory “, and Lydia Heberling’s “How Reading Multimodal Literature Can Support Indigenous Sovereignty.” For each of the three episodes, Rebecca developed two lesson plans: one adapted for composition courses and one for literature and culture courses. You can view the full playlist on our channel or by following the playlist link: ✔︎ https://bit.ly/LessonPlanPlayList Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ https://youtu.be/-RM9l7YgznA Rebecca Taylor’s Composition Lesson Plan for Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ *COMING SOON* Rebecca Taylor’s Literature and Cultural Studies Lesson Plan for Lydia Heberling’s Episode: ✔︎ Video: https://youtu.be/z9CELc5GwJs ✔︎ Lesson Plan: *COMING SOON* Listen to the podcast version of this series and more: ✔︎ https://www.anchor.fm/uwengl This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager Jacob Huebsch. About the Series: This video is both part of the a public scholarship dialogue series from The University of Washington (Seattle Campus) Department of English: "Literature, Language, Culture.” These video and podcast episodes share our innovative work in fostering intellectual inquiry, inspiring enthusiasm for literature, honing critical insight into the ethical and creative uses of the English language, preparing future teachers, and crafting the stories that animate our world. Whether you seek short-form discussions from experts in literature, language, teaching, and cultural studies, or are simply curious about our department’s community, you can subscribe to our channel here to make sure you stay up to date on the series: ✔︎ http://bit.ly/uwsubscribe About this episode's host, Rebecca Taylor: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/people/rebecca-taylor Rebecca Taylor is a doctoral student, instructor, and Assistant Director of UW in the High Schools in the University of Washington’s Department of English, where she studies digital literacies, multimodal composition, and writing center pedagogies. She has taught academic writing for the better part of the last decade, most recently in Hong Kong, where she was a founding member of the University of Hong Kong’s Digital Literacy Lab. She has also been an English Language Fellow in Indonesia, and before that, an editor in Korea and Seattle. She has also taught at Edmonds College, which spurred her interest in scholarship centered in two-year intuitions, particularly in composition and writing center studies. Broadly, her academic interests lie in the intersection of multimodal literacy, digital literacies, writing center pedagogy, and student composition. Join the UW English Department dialogue: ✔︎ https://twitter.com/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://instagram/UW_Engl ✔︎ https://facebook.com/UWEngl Podcast Edition: ✔︎ Podcast edition: https://anchor.fm/uwengl/ More on the Department of English at The University of Washington: ✔︎ https://english.washington.edu/

The University of Washington, Seattle
Department of English
Series Editor and Producer
Co-Video Editing with Jacob Huebsch

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"Literature, Language, Culture" Podcast:

The University of Washington, Seattle
Department of English
Series Editor and Producer
Co-Video Editing with Jacob Huebsch

The Walter G. Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities YouTube Channel

Learning to See: Literature, Moral Perception and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics, Edward Slingerland
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Learning to See: Literature, Moral Perception and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics, Edward Slingerland

In the Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall—unable to see, unable to act. This talk unpacks scattered and vague references in the Analects to construct a coherent account of how the Odes was used in early Confucianism as a tool for virtue ethical self-cultivation, as well as how the Analects itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise. It will be argued that early Confucians anticipated modern virtue ethical theorists in putting learning to see as itself the most fundamental of moral problems, a position that is supported by contemporary work on cognition and perception. Edward Slingerland is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Asian Studies and directs the Database of Religious History (DRH). The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center. *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/
Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition, James Gregory
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Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition, James Gregory

Katz Distinguished Lecture Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition James Gregory (History, University of Washington) How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? In the 1930s, California, Oregon, and Washington began to develop a relationship based on the role of radical social movements that has added to their regional affinities ever since. Appearing first in the 1980s, the term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in the political systems and reputations of these states. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions. James Gregory is Professor of History at the University of Washington, former director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and President-Elect of the American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch. He is the author of numerous books, including Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (University of North Carolina Press 2005), and directs the Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium of online public history projects, featuring the award-winning Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (2004-2020). His talk is based on the Mapping American Social Movements Project, which researches the historical geography of social movements that have influenced American life and politics since the late 19th century. Video Chapters 00:00 Introductions 09:50 James Gregory, Left Coast Rising 20:57 Origin of the Term 22:18 Progressive Era Political Institutions 24:00 The American Left: Slippery Definitions 27:30 Radical and the Democratic Party 41:35 Republican Response to Radicalism 47:02 Who moves West and why do they Vote Blue? 59:40 Left Coast/Silicon Coast 1:04:43 What's next for the Left Coast? The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi. *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/
"What Could Go Wrong?" by Cennydd Bowles
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"What Could Go Wrong?" by Cennydd Bowles

Technology ethicist and interaction designer, Cennydd Bowles, comes to the University of Washington for a guest lecture. After a range of embarrassing and sometimes dangerous slip-ups, technology companies have been quick to defend themselves. These impacts weren’t intentional, they argue: they were mere unforeseen side-effects of innovation. Perhaps. But technologists weren’t exactly looking too hard. The industry's resolute faith in progress has meant the few voices of internal dissent have often gone unheeded. Now a dramatic AI leap forward poses even greater opportunities and dangers. Can designers and technologists anticipate the social and ethical impacts of their work before they occur? And are we ready for what they might find? Cennydd Bowles is a technology ethicist and interaction designer, author of Future Ethics, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Elon University, North Carolina. Cennydds views on the ethics of emerging technology and design have been quoted by Forbes, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has spoken on responsible innovation at Facebook, Stanford University, and Google. Video Chapters 00:00 Introduction 04:10 Tech Policy and Governance 10:07 Issues in Contemporary AI 17:03 Issues in Future AI 25:10 Three Approaches to Risk Mitigation 25:18 Regulation 29:46 Internal Change 41:18 Public Engagement The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi. *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://twitter.com/simpsoncenter​ ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/
AI, Art, and Copyright
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AI, Art, and Copyright

This roundtable brings together artists, legal experts, and cultural historians to discuss pressing issues related to art and intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence. Kelly McKernan (they/them) is an independent artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They create original watercolor and acryla gouache paintings for galleries, commissions, and their online store. Since early 2023, Kelly has been advocating for artists’ rights as part of the historic class action lawsuit Andersen et al vs Stability AI. Geoffrey Turnovsky is Associate Professor of French at UW and co-director of the UW Textual Studies Program. He specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, emphasizing the history of print, authorship, reading, and copyright. His book, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France, will appear in June. Takiyah Ward is a multidisciplinary, Seattle-born creative who has explored her talents in a number of ways over the years—from custom sneakers and clothing (TDUB Customs) to murals and art activations (Vivid Matter Collective) to media and storytelling (Art Of The Matter). She also recently founded The Re-Sole 206, Seattle’s first dry cleaner for sneakers. Kat Walsh is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. A longtime open knowledge advocate, she was at CC as a coauthor of version 4.0 of the CC license suite in 2012-15 and returned to CC in 2021. She was previously chair of the Wikimedia Foundation and a board member of the Free Software Foundation. Video Chapters 00:00 Introduction 06:44 Kat Walsh - Copyright, Creative Commons, and AI 16:35 Kelly McKernan 36:22 Takiyah Ward 45:49 Geoffrey Turnovsky - History of Copyright 58:45 Moderated Roundtable The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://twitter.com/simpsoncenter​ ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/
The Power of Absence: Thinking with Archival Theory in Algorithmic Systems
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The Power of Absence: Thinking with Archival Theory in Algorithmic Systems

"The Power of Absence: Thinking with Archival Theory in Algorithmic Systems" with Lauren Klein and Jihan Sherman Lauren Klein and Jihan Sherman explore the value of archival theory as a means of grappling with algorithmic bias based on a collaboration with Daniela Rosner and Romi Morrison. Rather than seek to mitigate biases perpetuated by datasets and algorithmic systems, archival theory offers a reframing of bias itself. Drawing on a range of archival theory from the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, Black studies, queer theory, and feminist STS, we propose absence—as power, presence, and productive—as a concept that might more securely anchor investigations into the causes of algorithmic bias, and that can prompt more capacious, more creative, and more joyful future work. This work, in turn, can intervene into the technical as well as the social, historical, and political structures that serve as bias’s source. Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. Lauren works at the intersection of data science, AI, and the humanities, with an emphasis on questions of gender and race. She is coauthor (with Catherine D’Ignazio) of the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), and coeditor (with Matthew K. Gold) of Debates in the Digital Humanities (Univ. of Minnesota Press), among other publications. She is currently completing Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, forthcoming from the MIT Press, and envisioning the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, which will launch in Fall 2023. Jihan Sherman is an architect, designer, and artist. She is a storyteller, creative, and maker. She is curious, questioning, and learning. Jihan is the founder of the multidisciplinary creative practice, Estelle + Boots. Her research and practice explore design, culture, and materiality, with a particular focus on absent heritages and lived experiences of design. Her most recent research with African American craftswomen explores design counter-narratives and craft-based approaches to technology design that center on care, healing, and the lived experiences of Black women. Jihan holds a PhD in Digital Media, a Master of Architecture and BS in Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology. *Video Chapters* 00:00 Introduction 06:21 Lauren Klein - What is Absence? 11:45 Absence as Power 20:10 Absence as Presence 20:46 Absence as Productive 29:30 Jihan Sherman - Absence in/as Design Speculation 33:15 AI Language Translation 37:13 Quilts 44:56 Shift toward Absence The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://twitter.com/simpsoncenter​ ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/
Sharon Stein on "The University and its Responsibility for Repair"
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Sharon Stein on "The University and its Responsibility for Repair"

"The University and its Responsibility for Repair: Confronting Colonial Foundations and Enabling Different Futures" For the past 500 years, higher education has been entangled in the reproduction of social and ecological violence around the globe. This presentation asks how universities, and those of us who work and study within them, might meaningfully reckon with and enact repair for our complicity in historical and ongoing coloniality and unsustainability. It approaches reparations as a potentially regenerative process of enacting material redistribution and restitution, (re)building relationships grounded in respect and reciprocity, and repurposing our institutions to be more relevant and responsible in the context of the current polycrisis. The talk will also review several resources for navigating the complexities of confronting the colonial foundations of higher education and enabling different futures. *Video Chapters* 00:00 Introduction 00:39 Acknowledging the Land and Its People 03:28 Reckoning with the Colonial Past & Present 06:38 An Invitation to Ongoing Inquiry 15:30 Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective 19:28 5 Propositions 30:06 Range of Responses 36:02 Move to Reparations in Practice 43:16 Challenges, Complexities, and Circularities of Change 51:22 Hyper-self-reflexivity Questions *About Sharon Stein:* Sharon Stein (Educational Studies, University of British Columbia) is the author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Johns Hopkins, 2022), founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and a co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Collective. The Simpson Center for the Humanities is a proud co-sponsor of this event. Captioning was provided through 3Play Media services. Video editing was provided by Communications Manager at the Simpson Center, Yasi Naraghi. *Subscribe to the Simpson Center YouTube Channel:* ✔ https://www.youtube.com/c/simpsoncenter?sub_confirmation=1 *Follow the Simpson Center Social Media:* ✔ https://twitter.com/simpsoncenter​ ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/ ✔ https://www.instagram.com/simpson.cen... ✔ https://www.facebook.com/simpsoncenter​ *More on the Simpson Center for the Humanities:* ✔ https://simpsoncenter.org/

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