I’ve got some gigs coming up. These will probably be my last in Montreal until sometime later in 2025, since I’m away on sabbatical. Though there’s always a chance of a brief return visit. Tl;dr: Jonathan Sterne solo synth act, Saturday 15 June 2024, 5:30pm Hard Red Spring, Wednesday 19 June, 8:00pm Volte, Monday 19 …
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“What’s a Guggenheim?” (aka the promised good news post)
So this post echoes my insane fall of applications post. First of all: probably nobody should ever apply for 11 things like I did. But it was a hell of a good year professionally. Tl;dr: we will be in two places next year. Carrie will be based at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral …
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4 June 2023: Cancer Crawl
I’ve just completed a period of intense conferencing. Three in-person conferences in five weeks. Plus a number of Zoom talks on top of it. For me, it was wonderfully social and intellectual. In addition to getting to meet and see work by a new generation of grad students and assistant profs, whom I’d not “discovered” …
24 Feb 2023
Starter Pack I now have a starter pack I send to welcome BIPOC people, especially femmes, who are questioning whether they might be autistic, filled with essays, memes, hashtags, and online assessment tools. Many people with all kinds of disabilities are doing the same thing, even when we also pursue an official diagnosis—the first hints …
10 Feb 2023
New Text Here’s a new interview with me about Diminished Faculties. And I have a newish piece with Mehak Sawhney on machine listening and the will to datafy. I’ll get it up on the site, but if you’re at a university, your library should get Kalfou. Happy to email PDFs to people, too. Just ask. …
3 Feb 2023
Let’s get back to it. There’s catching up to do but in the meantime, I invite you to join me in the middle. Here are some thoughts from the past week. Reproducibility As part of my Interfaces seminar this term, I am having students do their projects around a process I called “hermeneutic reverse-engineering” (this …
McGill faculty: if you don’t provide Covid accommodations to your disabled, high-risk, or ill students, nobody will
Here are some things concerned faculty ought to know about McGill’s return to campus happening next week (or in three weeks, depending). Faculty need to step up and be the ones to provide accommodation for students who need it. The university is NOT currently accommodating students who are high risk or who live with people …