Digital Studies Speaker Series
The Digital Studies Speaker Series is a semester-long speaker series of Zoom presentations from experts in various disciplines who will speak to the connections between 鈥淒igital Studies鈥 as an evolving area of academic study and its interdisciplinarity. Please join the School of Arts and Humanities as we explore the connections between digital studies and their own disciplines for curriculum development and innovation.
Thursday,
October 16,
2025
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Brian Kim Stefans is on the faculty in the Department of English at UCLA. He holds
an M.F.A. in Electronic Literature from Brown University. His interests include electronic
literature and digital humanities, and modernist and contemporary poetry.
Learn more about Professor Stefans .
Learn more about Professor Stefans .
Thursday,
October 30,
2025
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Hannah Tardie (they/them) is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work exists
as sculpture, installation, essays, event organization, and performance. Tardie views
electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy,
attachment, and queer relationality.
Learn more about Professor Tardie .
Learn more about Professor Tardie .
Thursday,
November 13,
2025
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Clay Shirky is Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education and chairs the University鈥檚
Future of Technology-Enhanced Education Committee.
Shirky is also an Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Center of Journalism in FAS and an Associate Arts Professor in Tisch School of the Arts鈥 Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Learn more about Professor Shirky .
Shirky is also an Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Center of Journalism in FAS and an Associate Arts Professor in Tisch School of the Arts鈥 Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Learn more about Professor Shirky .
Tuesday,
November 18,
2025
| 4:30
- 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand is the Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities, Professor
of French, and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies, Applied Intercultural Arts
Research, Latin American Studies, LGBT Studies, and Public and Applied Humanities
at the University of Arizona.
Learn more about Dr. Durand .
Learn more about Dr. Durand .
