How to Participate: Participants are invited to attend in-person at 1014 Tisch Hall. Advance registration is not required. Title: Count Me In: How Quantification Shapes Knowledge Politics in Contemporary Higher Education Abstract: How is knowledge organized in higher education? In recent decades, the adoption of market-oriented logics within institutions of research and higher education had […]

How to Participate: Participants are invited to attend a live, multimedia performance in-person at Stern Auditorium or virtually. Registration for required. About: "Asian futures, without Asians" is a multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture, but devoid […]

How to Participate: Participants are invited to attend in-person at 1014 Tisch Hall. Advance registration is not required. Title: The History of ‘Impairment’   Abstract: “Impairment” is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they […]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person at the 10th Floor Event Space in Weiser Hall or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here for virtual attendance: https://bit.ly/3sBoiay Register here for in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/73xq1 TITLE Indistinguishability/Inscrutability - Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality SPEAKER Wendy Sung is assistant professor […]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person in the LSA Building Room 1040 or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here to attend in-person: https://myumi.ch/PrVPV Register here to attend virtually: https://bit.ly/46TsaCc TITLE Predictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork SPEAKER Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. ABSTRACT Our […]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 2435 or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here for in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/EPbbM Register here for virtual attendance: https://bit.ly/3PjuY6a TITLE Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating SPEAKER Apryl Williams, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the […]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 2435. TITLE Exploitation and Platform Power SPEAKER Daniel Susser is an associate professor of information science at Cornell University. ABSTRACT Big tech “exploits” us. This has become a common refrain among critics of digital platforms. It gives voice to a shared […]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 3100 or virtually. Please register here to attend online. TITLE Mou Zongsan and AI ethics SPEAKER Anna Greenspan is associate professor of global contemporary media, NYU Shanghai. ABSTRACT China has a singular media ecology. Tencent and Alibaba are giant internet platforms that […]

  How to Attend: The conference takes place Apr 8-9, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is free to attend online or in person and brings together a great line-up of speakers. Registration is free for both online and in-person. Registered attendees can view all the talks and also sign up for […]

ABSTRACT They say: AI is here. It is inevitable. It is unprecedented. It is the future. Underneath these claims of inevitably and futurity are residues of technological pasts and presents. Things that stick and smear, pasts that linger. What if we stick with what remains, with these residues—data not used, lands wasted, bodies rendered disposable, labor discarded, life that […]