[Wamvan] unconference in Oregon this Thursday and Friday: Fembot collective

[Nadine Chambers]

http://fembotcollective.org/

Hi everyone:

I happened to meet one of the organizers at a free Feminist conference in
England - Sorry for the late posting on this I just looked at it!

The first day is about pushing past basic standpoints and I am thinking
about something that Joanna said about the goal of WAM! to be gender and
other intersections where others are minorities or marginalized. I think
reading between the line in my opinion is that this is to be addressed in
the conference.....

The second day with a hack-a-thon looks really interesting as well!

They know I have sent this late but please do send this out to your
networks here and abroad - Perhaps others you know interested in this work
would be able to be there.

I am hoping to get the time to go. Anyone else interested please PM me -
humble travel by bus if I do.


Fembot Unconference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism

July 18-19, 2013

White Stag, Portland, Oregon

This event is free and open to UO faculty members, students, as well as the
general public.



The Fembot Collective, and its peer-reviewed journal *Ada*, value and
feature intersectionality in terms of content, membership, editorial
practices, and organizational structure. This unconference addresses issues
related to our networks and their geographical and institutional
limitations at a critical juncture in Fembot’s history. In order to ensure
that our politics are mirrored in our practices, we have invited four
consultants (see below) with demonstrated expertise in participatory media
theory and production to provide guidance in thinking about these issues.



Day one will initiate a series of discussions organized around questions of
accessibility, participation, strategies of inclusion, editorial bias, and
the crafting of *Ada* Issue Four which will address these issues in journal
form. Day two will be dedicated to a hack-a-thon — a full-day session that
will convene a group of technologically proficient programmers and
designers to collaborate on building a digital tool that emerges from the
previous day’s conversations. The hack-a-thon in particular will allow us
to build beyond the humanities and social sciences to feminists working in
computer science and high-tech industries.



Consultants

Brittney Cooper (Rutgers)

Michelle Habell-Pallán (U of Washington)

Margaret Rhee (UC Berkeley)

Kristen Warner (U of Alabama)

To find out more or register to attend, please email Bryce at
bpeake at uoregon.edu.

Sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of
Oregon in Portland, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of
Journalism and Communication, and UO Libraries
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