Model train car from Chris Burden’s installation Metropolis II (2010), on exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Find out more at LACMA website.
© 2010 Chris Burden/licensed by The Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo credit Despina Kakoudaki
We are happy to launch this new series of events in collaboration with the MA Program in Literature, Culture, and Technology, offered in the Department of Literature at American University. These interdisciplinary conversations highlight the complex relationships that characterize our mediated world, bringing together scholars, students, researchers, critics, and entrepreneurs in the humanities, the sciences, and a diverse range of technology fields.
You can find more about the MA in Literature, Culture, and Technology here:
https://www.american.edu/cas/literature/ma/
Our Spring 2023 speakers include:
Gabe Bullard, journalist and editor, and recent graduate of our MA program in Literature, Culture, and Technology. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a founding producer of the NPR show 1A, and is currently managing producer of NPR and WBUR’s award winning radio show Here & Now.
Join us for Nostalgia Acts: Spotify, Streaming, and the Rise of Old Music. Gabe Bullard will discuss the cultural and legal trends that allow streaming music platforms such as Spotify to favor and revive older music.
Amanda Parrish Morgan, author most recently of STROLLER (Bloomsbury 2022), which the New Yorker named one of the best books of 2022. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, LitHub, Guernica, The Millions, n+1, Electric Literature, and The Washington Post, among others. She teaches at Fairfield University and the Westport Writers’ Workshop.
Join us for Self-Driving Strollers: Intimacy, Technology, and the Automation of Care. Amanda Parrish Morgan will discuss the baby stroller and other technological innovations in the intimate space of the family.
More details to follow soon!