Comparative Literature is a co-sponsor for Dr.  André Brock’s talk, “The Illumination of Blackness: Afro-optimism and Digital Cultures” will take place on THURSDAY, MAY 5th, from 4:00-5:30 PM in the EMU Crater Lake Room. Full details below or at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/newmediaculture/2022/02/15/nmcc-annual-lecture-spring-2022-andre-brock/.

Also, for grad students only, Dr. Brock will be running a workshop on on Friday, May 6th on Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA): a multimodal analytic technique he developed for the investigation of internet and digital phenomena, artifacts, and culture. The CTDA Graduate Student Workshop is open to all graduate students at the University of Oregon and lunch will be provided. Space is limited + filling up quickly, so register soon! https://bit.ly/CTDA-Workshop-May6