This interactive Digital Humanities event—somewhere between a scholarly talk, a poetry reading, some video viewing, and some doing—will serve as an invitation and invocation for your participation, with others, in an ongoing experiment in knowing and working with the internet differently.

Professor Juhasz has developed Fake News Poetry Workshops​ as one way to counter the internet’s dominant and dominating modes, and to fight together the corrupt use of digital media to create, fuel, and weaponize fake news and the people, machines, and corporations that make it.

This presentation/event, like its sister workshops, will use analog structures (about digital things and ways) to generate, hold, and share some “DH/Poetics/Gender/Media answers to fake questions.”

BIO:
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is a core faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Juhasz has a PhD in Cinema Studies from NYU (1991) and attended the Whitney Independent Studio program as a videomaker (1988). She has taught at NYU, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Claremont Graduate University, USC, Pitzer College, and CUNY, on YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film and video as well as media production, history, and theory.​

Coffee and snacks will be provided at 9:30 am.

This event is organized and co-sponsored by the Department of Media Study, the Humanities Institute Digital Humanities Research Workshop​, the Poetics Program, and the Digital Scholarship Studio and Network.

Alexandra Juhasz will also be speaking with Katherine Cheairs and DMS Assistant Professor Margaret Rhee on Monday March 9th at 6:30 pm in CFA 112 as part of the PLASMA lecture series. The screening and discussion is entitled “Metanoia: AIDS, Women, Incarceration and Video Activism” ​and is organized by Margaret Rhee.