[UW-GIS-L] UW Libraries GIS Symposium, May 25th @ 10 am

[Kian A Flynn]

The UW Libraries GIS Symposium is next week! We're looking for a few more UW students, faculty and staff to give short talks on their GIS-related research or other geo-visualization projects. Submissions will be reviewed as they are submitted. Deadline for submission is May 20th (Friday). Submit proposals here: https://www.lib.washington.edu/commons/events/gis-2022

UW GIS Symposium info:
Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Time: 10am – noon
Location: Zoom
Website and registration: https://lib.washington.edu/commons/events/gis-2022

Keynote Info:
"GoFundUS: A Critical and Creative GIS and Geovisualization Project to Unmap and Understand Inequalities in Medical Crowdfunding," Jin-Kyu Jung, UW Bothell, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences & Nora Kenworthy, UW Bothell, School of Nursing and Health Studies

What would be the ways in which digital spatial information and mapping can constitute the means for, and be part of, social transformation, confronting/contesting social, spatial, and digital health inequality in the era of Big Data and data spectacle? What interventions from critical/qualitative/creative GIS and geovisualization could demonstrate how digital data could be reappropriated and repurposed to produce spatial knowledges that are situated, reflexive, non-masculinist, emotional/affective, inclusive, and polyvocal and flexible rather than foundational? After years of intensive ethnographic, quantitative, and geospatial efforts to understand the experiences of people using a medical crowdfunding campaign like GoFundMe, we embarked on a project to develop a public interactive web map site—GofundUS—which uses non-linear ‘storyscapes’ to disrupt the affects, narratives, and ontologies of crowdfunding platforms, creating transformative spaces for new affective engagements, knowledges, and narratives to emerge. Our presentation will showcase and critically analyze some of the speculative strategies used to create these storyscapes, including polyvocal composite poetry from campaign text fragments, creatively reconstituted campaign pages embedded with social “metadata” that is typically invisible to platform users, and creative geovisualizations that map the affective and unknowable terrains of crowdfunding economies. The talk will also demonstrate how multi-epistemological ‘processual’ approaches of making, engaging, and representing spatial knowledge and complexity can transcend the persistent limitations of scientific/quantitative social scientific GIS mapping approaches.

​​Hope to see you there!
Kian

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From: Kian A Flynn
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Subject: Save the date & call for proposals: UW Libraries GIS Symposium, May 25th @ 10 am


Hi all,

The 6th Annual UW GIS Symposium is a little more than 3 weeks away!


We're looking for UW students, faculty and staff to give quick lightning talks on their GIS-related research or other geo-visualization projects. Submissions will be reviewed as they are submitted; space is limited. Deadline for submission is May 20th (Friday). Submit proposals here<https://washington.libwizard.com/id/e915d806c537a89c07fbb19dbfb0a10f>.



UW GIS Symposium info:

Date: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022

Time: 10am – noon

Location: Zoom

Website and registration: https://lib.washington.edu/commons/events/gis-2022

Keynote Speakers: Jin-Kyu Jung, UW Bothell, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences & Nora Kenworthy, UW Bothell, School of Nursing and Health Studies



UW faculty and staff: please share this call for presenters with your students and encourage them to present as well.

Thanks -- and see you on May 25th!
UW GIS Symposium planning team


KIAN FLYNN
Geography & Global Studies Librarian

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