* UPCOMING EXPERIENCES *
Extra! Extra! Don't Kill the Messenger: Migrating to Stay Alive
Symposium • April 4-7, 2024
EMU Ballroom • Global Studies Institute


Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability 29 Conference
Conference • April 19-21, 2024
Lawrence Hall • College of Design


Oregon Humanities Center • celebrating 40 years • Humanities Matterspresents

Science and the Humanities

Vera Keller
History
Nicolae Morar
Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Cera Smith
Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies

April 23, 2024 • 3:00pm
Knight Library Browsing Room
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• AI and the Humanities •
Ramón Alvarado, Philosophy/Data Science Initiative/Data Ethics
Mattie Burkert, English/Digital Humanities/New Media & Culture and London Stage Database
Colin Koopman, Philosophy/Our Data, Our Selves web project
March 1, 2024 • Recorded Livestream


WHAT IS EXPERIENCE? (2022-2023-2024) reflects on six years—two trilogies—of the What is…? Series. Experience has a long history in philosophy and more recently in systems, intersectionality, networks, criticism, dialogue and debate, organizing, responsibility, care ethics, sociology, critical cybernetics, globalization, sense-making, planning, critical advertizing, and ecofeminism. Some areas of exemplary inquiry include autopoiesis, feminism, flow, activism, politics, organization, peace and justice, economics, relational ethics, science and technology studies, ecological futures, democratization, multimodal communication education, social ecology, transformational change and justice, as well as fusions of art-science-design, recognizing patterns in the world, and interplays of change and continuity in the 21st century.

Dedicated to the experience and memory of

Brenda Dervin
Todd Gitlin
Hazel Henderson

bell hooks
Richard Hunt
Don Ihde
Robert Irwin

Elihu Katz
Klaus Krippendorff
Janet D. Kwami

Bruno Latour
Paul Lester











Jerry Mander
Humberto Maturana
Jack McLeod
Maria Mies
Vincent Mosco
Antonio Negri
Nel Noddings
Herbert Simons
Annabelle Sreberny
James R. Taylor
Peter Weibel
Herbert Zettl

And, All Those We Remember

2022-2024 marks the twelfth annual What is…? and recognition of collaborative transdisciplinary research networks cultivating experiences as the heart of culture, nature, and pluriverse. What is…? will return!


WHAT IS…?

2021 2020 2019
What is Communication? (2021) What is Information? (2020) What is Technology? (2019)
2018 2017 2016
What is Universe? (2018) What is Life? (2017) What is Media? (2016)