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From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI

How to Attend: This event will be held on May 16th, 2023 9:00am-5:00 pm. Participants are invited to attend in-person at the Lurie Engineering Center Johnson Rooms, 3rd Floor. Advance registration required. Registration, full schedule, and more information can be found here: https://midas.umich.edu/building-ethical-ai/.   About: Every day, whether we realize it or not, we are […]

ESC Fall Mixer and Theme Launch

  Join us for conversation, appetizers, and drinks: Monday, October 9 4:00 - 6:00 PM Bløm Meadworks 100 S 4th Ave STE 110, A2 48104 (map) UM Faculty and Graduate Students RSVP by Wednesday, October 4 ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; […]

Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A

Erichler Room 3100 North Quad, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

HOW TO PARTICIPATE Participants are invited to attend in-person at Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad (Map and Directions).   About Join us for an event with academic and performance artist Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone, who is commonly credited with founding the field of transgender studies, and Cassius Adair, who studies the intersection of digital media […]

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra: Count Me In: How Quantification Shapes Knowledge Politics in Contemporary Higher Education

1014 Tisch Hall 435 S State St, Ann Arbor

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 […]

Astria Suparak: Asian Futures, Without Asians

Stern Auditorium 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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 […]

Mara Mills: The History of ‘Impairment’

1014 Tisch Hall 435 S State St, Ann Arbor

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 […]

Wendy Sung: Indistinguishability/Inscrutability – Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality

Weiser Hall 10th Floor Event Space 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI

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 […]

Predictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork: Sun-ha Hong in Conversation with John Cheney-Lippold

1040 LSA Building 500 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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 […]

Apryl Williams: Not My Type – Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Room 2435, North Quad 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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 […]

Daniel Susser: Exploitation and Platform Power

Room 2435, North Quad 105 State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

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 […]

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