[Commlist] What is Communication? (2021) Speaker Series

WHAT IS...?

COMMUNICATION

April 19 & 22 • May 6, 13 & 20, 2021

University of Oregon | Remote • Speaker Series

What is Communication? (2021) will investigate instantiations and 
permutations of communication via models of exchange, modes of inquiry, 
and meanings of community. While communication has been conceptualized 
as models of transportation, transmission, and ritual, communication is 
also characterized by modes of sharing, imparting, connecting, and 
participating. These characteristics can contribute to democracy, as 
well as facilitating the commons and community/fellowship.

Communication is sensorial, including the auditory, visual, kinesthetic, 
tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and interoceptive, and can involve 
humans, nonhumans, plants, and/or machines. Most importantly, 
communication imbues meanings—experiences/cultures, languages/ideas, 
feelings/emotions, interactions/transactions, politics/economics, 
situations/contexts, and networks/environments.

This year’s event takes a problem-solving approach to communication by 
examining systems of networks and flows, gender and ICT4D, surveillance 
and algorithms, platforms and democracies, familial commonalities and 
ecological interdependencies.

What is Communication? (2021) builds on the previous two years’ 
gatherings. What is Technology? (2019) examined practical arts and 
tools, techniques and processes, moral knowledge and imagination, as 
well as technology as intelligent inquiry and problem-solving. What is 
Information? (2020) investigated tapestries, temperaments, and 
topologies of the mathematical and semantic, physical and biological, 
cultural and environmental, economic and political, as well as 
information’s transformational æffects. This year marks the eleventh 
annual What is...? and the sixth collaboration with scholars from the 
natural sciences, social sciences and arts. The series continues to 
enact a collaborative network of transdisciplinary research, cultivating 
communication as the heart of nature and society.

Keynotes:

  *

    Monday, April 19, 2021 • 9:00-10:00am PT [NOTE: Different day of
    week and time than others below.]
    Elihu Katz, Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of
    Jerusalem, and Yonatan Fialkoff, Smart Family Institute, Hebrew
    University of Jerusalem, Israel
    “How Did Mass Become Network?”

  *

    Thursday, April 22, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
    H. Leslie Steeves, African Studies/Media Studies, University of
    Oregon, and Janet D. Kwami, Communication/Film/Center for
    Sustainability, Furman University
    “Power, Voice & Influence Through ICTs: Reflections on Digital
    Inequalities in the Global South”

  *

    Thursday, May 6, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
    Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Information & Society/Communication, University
    of Pennsylvania
    “Algorithmic Manipulation: How Shall We Respond to the Threats and
    Challenges Before Us?”

  *

    Thursday, May 13, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
    Kathryn C. Montgomery, Communication, American University, and Jeff
    Chester, Center for Digital Democracy
    “Understanding and Regulating the Commercial Surveillance System”

  *

    Thursday, May 20, 2021 • 12:00-1:00pm PT
    Suzanne Simard, Forest & Conservation Sciences, University of
    British Columbia, Canada *
    “Trees Communicate Through Networks in Complex Adaptive Systems”

    * in cooperation with UO Women in Graduate Science


    FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Please see whatis.uoregon.edu
    <http://whatis.uoregon.edu> for more details.


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