Visiting Speaker
ESC PLAN: The ESC Opening Event
A half-day public event to inaugurate the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing. Featuring: Julia Angwin (The Markup), danah boyd (Data & Society), André Brock (Georgia Tech), Marc DaCosta (Enigma), Jen Gennai (Google), Holly Okonkwo (Purdue), Monroe Price (Penn), and more.
Privacy@Michigan 2020
Privacy@Michigan 2020 brings together faculty, researchers, students, staff, and the public for multidisciplinary conversations about privacy’s role in society. Kathleen Kingsbury, editor of the New York Times Privacy Project, will give the keynote address. Additional privacy experts will participate in two panel discussions: "It Takes a Village: Multi-Disciplinary Voices on Privacy and Ethics in a Hyper-Connected Age," and "I Always Feel Like Someone Is Listening to Me: Voice Assistants and the Internet of Things."
Angela Washko: Tactical Embodiment
Angela Washko is an artist, writer, and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions about feminism in online spaces frequently hostile toward it.
Kavya Pearlman: How to Build SAFE Virtual Worlds
Kavya Pearlman is the founder of the non-profit XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR), collectively known as XR.
Sarah Roberts: Behind the Screen
Faced with mounting pressures and repeated, very public crises, social media firms have taken a new tack since 2017: to respond to criticism of all kinds by acknowledging their long-obfuscated human gatekeeping workforce of commercial content moderators. In this talk, Sarah T. Roberts will offer context, history and analysis of this hidden industry, with particular attention to the emotional toll it takes on its workers.
Sasha Costanza-Chock: Design Justice
Koessler Room, Michigan League 911 North University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an exploration of how we might re-imagine design to be led by marginalized communities as a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, and support ecological survival.
CANCELLED: Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State
Technology lies at the heart of the carceral state. Join us for a discussion of the role computing plays in predictive policing, surveillance, and other technologies of incarceration and justice.
Charlton McIlwain: Smash the Mainframe — The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing
How to Participate Watch on YouTube live during the event. Click here to sign up to receive a reminder before the event. Title Smash the Mainframe: The Collision Between Civil Rights and Computing A Conversation with Charlton McIlwain, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU and Christian Sandvig, Director of ESC. Speaker Bios Charlton is […]
Hannah Zeavin: Auto-Intimacy — Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self
TO PARTICIPATE This event will be streamed live via Zoom. This event is restricted to the University of Michigan unless special arrangements have been made. Click here for the participation credentials if you have logged into your University of Michigan GSuite account: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/esc-center/hannah-zeavin TITLE Auto-Intimacy: Algorithmic Therapies and Care of the Self Hannah Zeavin, University […]
Sophia Brueckner: Sci-Fi Prototyping and Critical Optimism
How to Participate This is a scheduled video event. At the time stated above, watch via webcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYn2vukv4gk. This stream will be simulcast by Detroit Public Television at dptv.org/pennystamps. Discussion is possible via comments on the Penny Stamps Speaker Series Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/. A recording of the event may be available […]