Guest SpeakerS
all uplifting memes programming is cancelled for the spring 2020 semester due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
Spring 2020 Speakers
Dr. Maggie Melo & Laura March
Making Space for Memes: Creativity and Self-Expression in Makerspaces and Online Communities
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
11 am - 12 pm. This event has moved online! Join us on Zoom: https://unc.zoom.us/j/487553782
Assistant Professor in UNC Chapel Hill's School of Information & Library Science (SILS)
Dr. Maggie Melo
Ph.D. Candidate at UNC Chapel Hill's SILS
Laura March
Join the Uplifting Memes team for an afternoon event with Dr. Maggie Melo and Laura March of UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information & Library Science (SILS). This hybrid talk and interactive workshop will delve into the intersections of makerspaces, memes, and social justice. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to consider digital and analogue self-expression as an instrument of activism and advocacy while engaging in meme-filled creative experience.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please contact Maggie Murphy at mmurphy@uncg.edu at least one week prior to the event to request disability accommodations.
MATTHEW KENNEy
Assistant Research Professor of Computational Media Arts and Cultures in Duke University's Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
AI and Synthetic Media
Thursday, April 2, 2020
5 - 6 pm in the Jackson Library Hodges Reading Room (second floor in Special Collections and University Archives)
A description of this talk is coming soon! In the mean time, check out some past events with Matthew Kenney for ideas of what's in store!
Making Space: Creativity and AI with Matthew Kenney (NC State University, October 2018)
Invited Speaker: Research Computing Symposium (Duke University, February 2020)
Light refreshments will be served.
Please contact Maggie Murphy at mmurphy@uncg.edu at least one week prior to the event to request disability accommodations.
PAST SPeakers
emily stamey
Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum
Nothing New Under the Sun: Art History on the Internet and IRL
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
5 - 6 pm in the the Jackson Library Hodges Reading Room (second floor in Special Collections and University Archives)
Images from art history are often redeployed in internet memes for humor or social commentary. However, this is not a new phenomenon! Both memes (viral ideas) and remixes of famous artworks predate the existence of the internet. Join the University Libraries for a guest talk about art history memes in the context of art appreciation and visual culture from Dr. Emily Stamey, the Weatherspoon Art Museum's curator of exhibitions.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please contact Maggie Murphy at mmurphy@uncg.edu at least one week prior to the event to request disability accommodations. Click here to find this event in Spartan Connect!
amanda brennan
Tumblr's Meme Librarian and Internet Historian
Hamster Dance, Advice Dog, and a Couple of Frogs: A Brief History of Internet Culture
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
3:30 - 4:45 pm in the Elliot University Center (EUC) Auditorium
Amanda Brennan's official title is Head of Content Insights and Social at Tumblr, but she's better known as the Internet's meme librarian and an expert in viral content and online fandom communities. After graduating from Rutgers University with a Masters of Library and Information Science, she began her career at the Know Your Meme website, researching and cataloging memes and other internet phenomena. Amanda has worked at Tumblr since 2013 and in addition to overseeing Fandometrics, Tumblr's dynamic database that scientifically ranks entertainment fandoms, she is also responsible for keeping her finger on the pulse of cosplay and fandoms IRL for Tumblr at the annual San Diego Comic Con for five years running. Join us as Amanda Brennan takes us on a tour of Internet history, followed by an audience Q&A. This event is sponsored by the University Libraries' Uplifting Memes program.
Featuring an Uplifting Memes swag raffle/giveaway.
Please contact Maggie Murphy at mmurphy@uncg.edu at least one week prior to the event to request disability accommodations. Click here to find this event in Spartan Connect!