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SUMMARY:DISCO | TikTok\, DeepSeek and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times
DESCRIPTION:Abstract For the first time\, two of the most popular apps in the world – TikTok and the A.I. chatbot DeepSeek – are Chinese. American legislative efforts to restrict or outright ban Chinese apps and other technologies on the grounds of national security have dominated recent headlines. During a time of political turmoil\, increasing hostility towards trade with other nations\, and the rush to maintain U.S. dominance over the tech industry\, anti-Chinese sentiment has (re)surfaced in ways that echo earlier American anxieties about Asian labor competition and racial difference. This panel will bring together Asian American media scholars and culture creators to analyze what this climate means for our shifting technological landscape\, Asian American communities\, and race relations in the U.S. Free boba will be provided to the first 100 in-person attendees. All are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. Advance registration is recommended: Register to attend in person: https://myumi.ch/AZjJG Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/RmG6y Meet the Panelists Tara Fickle is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her first book\, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities\, (NYU Press\, 2019\, winner of Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award)\, explores how games have been used to establish and combat Asian and Asian American racial stereotypes. Fickle’s current research projects include the racialized dimensions of esports\, virtual currency harvesting in video games\, and a digital archive of the canonical Asian American anthology\, Aiiieeeee! She teaches courses on Asian American culture\, gaming\, comics\, and the digital humanities. Ian Shin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century United States and is interested in how “culture\,” broadly defined\, reflects but also shapes the politics of its time. His research and teaching concentrate on U.S.-China relations\, U.S. empire\, immigration\, and the Asian American experience. His book manuscript—entitled Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Cultural Origins of America’s Pacific Century—examines Chinese art collecting in the U.S. in the early 20th century as a contested process of knowledge production that bolstered ideas of American exceptionalism\, even while it relied on transpacific circuits of labor and expertise. Jeff Yang has been observing\, exploring\, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines\, A. Magazine\, in the late nineties and early 2000s\, and now writes frequently for CNN\, New York Times\, and elsewhere. He has authored three books—Jackie Chan’s New York Times bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action; Once Upon a Time in China\, a history of the cinemas of Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and the Mainland; and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture\, and recently coauthored the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now. Meet the Moderator Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011); Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007); Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002); and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.” This event is co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program\, Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\, Department of American Culture\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\, Department of History\, Department of Political Science\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Program in International and Comparative Studies\, School of Information\, Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program\, and Science\, Technology\, and Society Program.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/disco-tiktok-deepseek-and-the-fear-of-chinese-tech-in-nationalist-times/
LOCATION:Weiser Hall 10th Floor Event Space\, 500 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI
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SUMMARY:ESC EMPIRE
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing invites all ESC researchers and an ESC-curious guest to our Winter mixer for the ESC Community at The Circ at 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.\, Thursday\, March 27\, 2025. This includes a fireplace\, patio\, food\, and drink. This event will include interactive activities on the theme ESC Empire. Please RSVP here by Sunday\, March 23. RSVP once for yourself and once again if you will bring a guest. Directions For Fully Accessible Entry: On the ground floor\, there is a door right by the staircase. Ring the doorbell and someone from The Circ staff will come down to open it. A staff member will walk you to the Lounge. Feel Free to download our high-resolution flyer here.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/empire/
LOCATION:The Circ Bar\, 2nd Floor Private Lounge\, 210 S 1st St\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States
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SUMMARY:Taomo Zhou | From Military-Industrial Complex to Global Supply Chain: A History of the Electronics Industry in Shenzhen\, China
DESCRIPTION:Abstract In the context of contemporary geopolitical dynamics\, discussions about “delinking” and “derisking” have become increasingly prominent\, particularly in relation to the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. This talk examines the reverse of the current trend: the emergence of the global supply chain that transformed China into the “factory of the world” and elevated Shenzhen—one of China’s first Special Economic Zones—into the “Silicon Valley of hardware” and the headquarters of U.S.-blacklisted Information and Communication Technology (ICT) giants Huawei and ZTE. Focusing on the period between the 1980s and 2000s\, I highlight three key processes that fuelled Shenzhen’s rapid rise in the electronics industry: Large-scale relocation of military-industry factories from China’s interior to Shenzhen provided the city with essential human capital; Export-oriented manufacturing facilitated the inflow of advanced technologies and expertise from Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, Japan and the US\, driving technological upgrades; Shenzhen’s status as an institutional experiment with a market economy in socialist China encouraged the innovative repurposing of Cold War-era military technologies\, such as adapting military radar for real-time price transmission at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. These intertwined processes—migration\, circulation\, and conversion—positioned Shenzhen as a pivotal node for global technological diffusion and solidified its role as a critical technological contact zone connecting China with the rest of the world. Bio: Taomo Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies and Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, National University of Singapore. Her first book\, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press\, 2019)\, won a Foreign Affairs “Best Books of 2020” award and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Taomo is currently working on her second book project entitled “Made in Shenzhen: A Global History of China’s First Special Economic Zone\,” which is under advance contract with Stanford University Press. More details about Dr. Taomo Zhou can be found here. Please register here if you plan to attend this event online. This event is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/taomo-zhou-from-military-industrial-complex-to-global-supply-chain-a-history-of-the-electronics-industry-in-shenzhen-china/
LOCATION:Ehrlicher Room\, NQ3100
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SUMMARY:STS 25th Anniversary Conference
DESCRIPTION:On March 13-14\, 2025\, STS is hosting a 25th Anniversary Conference featuring presentations from graduate student alumni and former and current UM STS faculty members. STS program envisions this as an academic family reunion—a chance to share a meal with old friends\, meet new colleagues\, reflect on past accomplishments\, and discover what’s new in the ever-expanding world of U-M STS. \nHere is a brief agenda of the event. Please RSVP here!\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 13\, Rackham Assembly Hall \n5:30 pm: Keynote\, Gabrielle Hecht\, Stanford University: “Inside-Out Earth” \nFollowed by a catered dinner for guests who RSVP \nFriday\, March 14\, 1014 Tisch\, 8:15-6 pm \n8:15-8:35 am: Light Breakfast \n8:35-8:45 am: Welcome \n8:45-10:30 am: Orders of Extraction \n10:45-12:00 pm: Centering the Marginalized in Medical STS \n12:00-1:15 pm: Lunch \n1:15-2:30 pm: Engaged STS and Environmental Crisis \n2:45-4:30 pm: The Ambivalent Politics of Ambiguous Data \n4:45-6:00: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of U-M STS: Concluding Roundtable \n\nThis event is made possible by the generous support of the School of Information\, the English Language and Literature Department\, the History Department\, the Communications Department\, the Digital Studies Institute\, the Anthropology Department\, the Sociology Department\, the Eisenberg Institute\, the Anthro-History Department\, the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\, the Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy program\, the African Studies Center\, the LSA Research Office\, the LSA Humanities Institute\, and the RCI Block Grants for Arts and Humanities.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/sts-25th-anniversary-conference/
LOCATION:1014 Tisch Hall\, 435 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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SUMMARY:Oliver Haimson | Trans Technologies Book Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with UMSI Assistant Professor of Information Oliver L. Haimson\, author of Trans Technologies (MIT Press)\, hosted by UMSI Professor Kishonna Gray\, on how technology creates new possibilities for transgender people\, and how trans experiences\, in turn\, create new possibilities for technology. Book signing and reception to follow. Free book copies for the first 50 in-person attendees. Please see details of the event here. RSVP for in-person attendance here. Register to attend online here. Book description:\nMainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize transgender users. Trans Technologies describes what happens when trans people take technology design into their own hands. Oliver L. Haimson\, whose research into gender transition and technology has defined this area of study\, draws on transgender studies and his own in-depth interviews with more than 100 creators of technology—including apps\, games\, health resources\, extended reality systems\, and supplies designed to address challenges trans people face—to explain what trans technology is and to explore its present possibilities and limitations\, as well as its future prospects. Haimson surveys the landscape of trans technologies to reveal the design processes that brought these technologies to life\, and to show how trans people often must rely on community\, technology\, and the combination of the two to meet their basic needs and challenges. His work not only identifies the role of trans technology in caring for individuals within the trans community but also shows how trans technology creation empowers some trans people to create their own tools for navigating the world. Articulating which trans needs and challenges are currently being addressed by technology and which still need to be addressed; describing how trans technology creators are accomplishing this work; examining how privilege\, race\, and access to resources impact which trans technologies are built and who may be left out; and highlighting new areas of innovation to be explored\, Trans Technologies opens the way to meaningful social change. Author bio:\nDr. Oliver Haimson is an assistant professor at University of Michigan School of Information and author of Trans Technologies (MIT Press\, 2025). He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award. Haimson conducts social computing research focused on envisioning and designing trans technologies. ESC is co-sponsoring the event with the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI)\, Digital Studies Institute (DSI)\, Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG)\, and Spectrum Center.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/oliver-haimson-trans-technologies-book-launch-event/
LOCATION:North Quad Space 2435
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SUMMARY:ESC Faculty Talk | Nazanin Andalibi: Emotion AI in the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nEmotion AI\, increasingly used in mundane (e.g.\, entertainment) to high-stakes (e.g.\, education\, healthcare\, workplace) contexts\, refers to technologies that claim to algorithmically recognize\, detect\, predict\, and infer emotions\, emotional states\, moods\, and even mental health status using a wide range of input data. While emotion AI is critiqued for associated scientific validity\, bias\, and surveillance concerns\, it continues to be patented\, developed\, and used without public debate\, resistance\, or regulation. \nIn this talk\, I highlight some of my research group’s work focusing on the workplace to discuss: 1) how emotion AI technologies are conceived of by their inventors and what values are embedded in their design\, and 2) the perspectives of the humans who produce the data that make emotion AI possible\, and whose experiences are shaped by these technologies: data subjects. I argue that emotion AI is not just technical\, it is sociotechnical\, political\, and enacts/shifts power. I show how emotion AI could harm the very conditions its advocates promise it will improve (e.g.\, worker wellbeing\, work conditions)\, rendering it a problematic choice for addressing structural challenges workers face in the workplace. I conclude that even with technical reforms (e.g.\, reducing biases\, improving accuracy) many emotion AI-inflicted harms (e.g.\, emotional labor\, privacy harms) would persist. \n  \nBio: \nNazanin Andalibi is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan and is an affiliate faculty member at the university’s Digital Studies Institute; Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing; and Center for Social Media Responsibility. As a social computing and human-computer interaction (HCI) scholar\, her research examines how marginality is experienced\, enacted\, facilitated\, or disrupted in and as mediated through sociotechnical systems such as artificial intelligence and social media. For example\, a central theme of her research examines the privacy\, ethical\, justice\, and policy implications of emotion AI technologies in high-stakes contexts including the workplace\, job interviews\, social media\, and health care.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-faculty-talk-nazanin-andalibi-emotion-ai-in-the-future-of-work/
LOCATION:1014 Tisch Hall\, 435 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Erin McElroy will discuss Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times\, just published with Duke University Press with Matt Bui. The book maps out processes of gentrification\, racial dispossession\, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and also looks at how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States\, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies\, displaces residents\, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. The book also explores how in Romania\, dreams of privatization have updated fascist pasts\, often in the name of anticommunism. At the same time\, McElroy accounts for the ways that activists and artists resist Silicon Valley capitalist logics\, building upon socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations—helping materialize the unbecoming of Silicon Valley. The talk will conclude with a discussion of how Silicon Valley imperialism impacts transnational geographies of landlordism\, gesturing to some of McElroy’s newer work. Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington\, where their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification\, technology\, empire\, and racial capitalism\, alongside housing justice organizing and transnational solidarities. McElroy is author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press\, 2024) and coeditor of Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press\, 2021). Additionally\, McElroy is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization\, counter-cartography\, and digital media collective that produces tools\, maps\, reports\, murals\, zines\, oral histories\, and more to further the work of housing justice. At UW\, McElroy runs Landlord Tech Watch\, which produces collaborative research and collective knowledge on the dispossessive technologies of landlordism. We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/4fuhmzc  Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus here: https://myumi.ch/Jwy95 CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. ESC is co-sponsoring the event with the Digital Studies Insitute\, the Science\, Technology\, & Society Program\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Department of Communication & Media
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/silicon-valley-imperialism-techno-fantasies-and-frictions/
LOCATION:Room 1040 (Multipurpose Room) LSA Building
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SUMMARY:Search Engines: Molly Soda
DESCRIPTION:Molly Soda is a NYC-based artist\, designer\, writer\, and educator. Her distinctly post-internet creative practice bridges the worlds of performance art and Internet art\, often drawing from her own experience as an Incredibly-Online individual as well as from a rich archive of digital artifacts accumulated over the past two decades. Her work spans a variety of social media platforms and modes\, and has been presented both online and in gallery installations. Please find more information about the talk here. Please register for the talk here: https://forms.gle/GnfChLegHMPN36Jd6 The talk is hosted by Search Engines: Art\, Tech\, Justice and the DISCO Network\, housed in the University of Michigan’s Digital Studies Institute. ESC is co-sponsoring the talk with\, Arts Initiative\, Department of Communication and Media\, Department of the History of Art\, Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\, and Institute for Research on Women and Gender.  
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/molly-soda/
LOCATION:Helmut Stern Auditorium Museum of Art
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SUMMARY:Lilly Irani | Algorithms of Suspicion: Quasi-criminalization and the erosion of work
DESCRIPTION:Also streamed online via Zoom during the event. Abstract This talk examines the combination of policies\, practices\, and algorithms of suspicion that control workers’ access to wages and work on digital labor platforms. I show how “fraud” acts as a quasi-legal category that legitimizes and protects platform operators’ unilateral decisions to fire workers. This case study begins with the problem of opaque account suspensions suffered by good faith workers on the platform Amazon Mechanical Turk. Through an investigation of patents\, research papers\, and industry documentation\, the chapter constructs a view of the models and assumptions Amazon deploys to guess the difference between good and bad workers. These algorithms and the opaque organizational routines that deploy them submit workers to automated surveillance\, suspicion\, and terminating action – managing workers at scale and at a distance. These practices may have discriminatory consequences\, sometimes in ways recognized by legally recognized protected categories and sometimes not. I conclude by arguing that existing digital rights frameworks must be revised to give workers rights and protections against platforms’ algorithmic forms of management.  \nBio \nLilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California\, San Diego where she is the Faculty Director of the UC San Diego Labor Center. She also serves as  affiliate faculty in Computer Science\, the Design Lab\, Institute for Practical Ethics\, and the program in Critical Gender Studies. She is author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press\, 2019) and Redacted (with Jesse Marx) (Taller California\, 2021). Chasing Innovation has been awarded the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for feminist anthropological research on work\, science\, or technology\, including biomedicine. Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate\, as both an ethnographer\, a designer\, and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder of the digital worker advocacy organization Turkopticon. Her work has appeared at ACM SIGCHI\, New Media & Society\, Science\, Technology & Human Values\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and other venues. She sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Culture and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of New Technology\, Work\, and Employment and Design and Culture. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from University of California\, Irvine. \nThis talk is hosted by Michigan AI seminar series and Women in Computing Seminar series at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department\, co-sponsored by ESC.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/lilly-irani-algorithms-of-suspicion-quasi-criminalization-and-the-erosion-of-wor/
LOCATION:BBB 3725
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SUMMARY:Voting While Misled | Social Media\, Disinformation and the Election
DESCRIPTION:November’s election brings with it unprecedented disinformation technologies\, from new uses of social media platforms to generative AI. Join our panel of experts to discuss how our institutions\, platforms\, and politicians are both combating and enabling this threat to democracy. Panel discussion to be followed by an interactive Q&A with the viewers. A conversation with Ceren Budak\, associate professor of information\, School of Information\, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science\, College of Engineering and faculty associate\, Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research; Ariel Hasell\, assistant professor of communication and media\, College of Literature Science\, and the Arts; and Barbara McQuade\, professor from practice\, University of Michigan Law School. Moderated by Christian Sandvig\, H Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor of Digital Media\, professor of information\, School of Information\, faculty associate\, Center for Political Studies\, Institute for Social Research\, professor of communication and media\, professor in the Digital Studies Institute\, College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and professor of art and design\, Penny W Stamps School of Art and Design. Please RSVP here. And watch us on YouTube. This event is part of the InfoSpeaks series and is co-sponsored by the Center for ESC. See the event listing on the website here: https://esc.umich.edu/event/online-event-disinformation-and-the-election/  
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/online-event-disinformation-and-the-election/
LOCATION:MI
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SUMMARY:ESC Attacks | A Benefit for computing researchers facing targeted harassment
DESCRIPTION:Join ESC affiliates and their guests for our Fall mixer at the Elks. We will assemble care packages for student researchers in computing and information who are under attack. Materials will be provided. Free parking in rear. Download the digital flyer here. RSVP Required: Click here to RSVP Formed in 1922 during racial segregation\, the Crawford Elks Lodge has been essential to the Ann Arbor African-American community for over 100 years. It provides service to the community as well as a place to gather\, socialize\, and support one another. No Elks membership is required to attend this event. DONATION BOX ON SITE: Bring your unwanted tech company-branded clothing\, bags\, and gifts to be repurposed for the ESC $wag project.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-attacks-a-benefit-for-computing-researchers-facing-targeted-harassment/
LOCATION:James L. Crawford (Pratt) Elks Lodge #322\, 220 Sunset Rd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48103
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SUMMARY:Paula Harper | Viral: Metaphor\, Narrative\, Music
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic\, “going viral” had nonetheless become commonplace—the epidemiological metaphor characterizing an increasingly-familiar trajectory of explosive circulation\, remix\, and reportage expanding from individual nodes of audiovisual content online. This presentation briefly historicizes and contextualizes the contagious concept\, before suggesting how “virality”—as aesthetic repertoire\, as popular narrative\, as social logic made concrescent in platform architectures—might also be understood as a form of musicality. I argue that participation in the production\, watching\, listening to\, circulating\, or sharing of “viral” digital internet objects has constituted a significant site of 21st-century musical practice. And across the 21st century\, digital platforms have adapted to facilitate this viral musicality\, using music’s positive capacities—aesthetic pleasure\, communal participation\, social connectivity—to enable corporate profit-making\, corral attention\, and incentivize acceptance of increasing technocapital enclosure of the internet and everyday life. Please RSVP here. This event is hosted by STeMs Speakers Series and co-sponsored by ESC.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/paula-harper-viral-metaphor-narrative-music/
LOCATION:1014 Tisch Hall\, 435 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ VR Museum Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LGBTQ+ VR Museum Open House hosted by the Digital Studies Institute and the Just XR Futures Lab from Oct. 7 through Oct. 11\, 2024. The LGBTQ+ VR Museum was created by DiVRse Technologies\, a world-leading immersive studio that produces ground-breaking digital experiences using VR and XR technologies. Disrupting historical gatekeeping and erasure of marginalized voices\, DiVRse Technologies uses VR to share stories and artifacts curated directly from the queer community. The LGBTQ+ community globally contributed dozens of personal items scanned into 3D and 2D artworks\, that contextualize their lived experiences. Layers of interactive content appear and programmatically respond to visitors’ emotions in real time as they explore the VR museum. All are welcome. The LGBTQ+ VR Museum was designed to be accessible\, so people of all abilities can experience the exhibits\, artifacts\, and stories. Please register at U-M Sessions at the following link: https://myumi.ch/zXyd9 We want to make our events accessible to all participants. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate or have any questions\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/lgbtq-vr-museum-open-house/
LOCATION:2001 Modern Languages Building
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SUMMARY:Tiara Roxanne | Digital Technology and Body Memory - Conversation with Rebecca Uliasz
DESCRIPTION:The use of digital technologies and platformitization have become a more normalized way of connecting which shapes our relations and ultimately\, how we intimise. Where we might mutually recognize a shared togetherness within the digital sphere\, we might also discover a feeling of togetherness\, alienation\, horror or even seduction. I ask questions of how digital intimacy fabricates how our bodies move toward one another\, gather or isolate? We are intimate with the algorithms\, social media platforms and digital infrastructures embedded within the technological which intensify feelings of horror. Is the horror we see and feel via the algorithm and what we share\, a new form of attunement and intimacy\, is it a new body memory? Tiara Roxanne is a Purhépecha (descendant) Mestiza scholar and artist based in Berlin. Dr. Roxanne’s work is dedicated to rethinking the ethics of AI through an anti-colonial and cyberfeminist lens. They are currently developing their terminology\, digital attunement and the technological haunt further\, which expands theory and critique regarding body memory and hauntology within socio-technical frameworks. In the recent past\, they developed protocols of trust and safety online with Indigenous communities based in Central and South America. As a performance artist and practitioner\, they work between the digital and the material using textile\, from the space of the body as a site of refusal. Tiara has presented at Images Festival (Toronto)\, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center (NY)\, Trinity Square Video (Toronto)\, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück)\, University of Applied Arts (Vienna)\, SOAS (London)\, SLU (Madrid)\, Transmediale (Berlin)\, Duke University (NC)\, Tech Open Air (Berlin)\, AMOQA (Athens)\, Zurich University of the Arts (Zurich)\, Autonomous Intercultural Indigenous University (Columbia)\, Utrecht University (NL)\, University of California (San Diego)\, Laboratorio Arte Alameda\, (Mexico City)\, Fuchsbau Festival (Hannover) among others. We strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3yTjO2r Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus here: https://myumi.ch/mZGnV CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/tiara-roxanne-in-conversation-with-rebecca-uliasz-digital-attunement-and-other-hauntologies/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240926T180000
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of Paul Preciado's Orlando
DESCRIPTION:“Come\, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando: A Biography” as his starting point\, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO\, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—a personal essay\, historical analysis\, and social manifesto. For almost a century\, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film\, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography. Together\, they perform interpretations of the novel\, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work\, Preciado interrogates the relevance of “Orlando” in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide. Watch the official trailer here: https://youtu.be/LpGFplNRUmc?si=4TXIapiyMX0YaI7u How to Participate: Register here https://forms.gle/Lc3Zxi8viCeeS7pg8 This event will be in person. Please be sure to register and come early to snag a seat! If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the registration form\, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/free-screening-of-paul-preciados-orlando/
LOCATION:232 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240924T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240924T163000
DTSTAMP:20260613T030219
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SUMMARY:Whit Pow in Conversation with Sheila Murphy | The Deliberate History of Randomness: Determinism\, Race\, Trans Life\, and the History of Random Number Generation
DESCRIPTION:Event Abstract: There is something deliberate about the history of randomness. Computers are often described as “deterministic”: every process that is performed by a computer is pre-determined\, with often formulaic outcomes. “Determinism” is also a historically loaded word—one that has been paired with the term “biological” to justify eugenicist thought related to race\, disability\, and queer and transgender life. What might it mean\, then\, to place these meanings side-by-side\, connecting the long history of ideological determinism in relationship to race\, gender\, and sexuality in the United States alongside the use of determinism in computer science and programming?   Using previously unseen video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s archives along with the 1978 glitch art piece Digital TV Dinner\, I examine the randomized imagery and glitch art produced by the Bally Astrocade\, a video game console and home computer whose software was developed in 1978 by trans programmer and game designer Jamie Faye Fenton. I trace this history of the random through computers\, hardware random number generators like lava lamps and atmospheric noise from radio waves\, the United States census\, and the roots of random number generation in eugenicist thought in the United States.   Speaker Bio: Whit Pow (they/them) is an assistant professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Their work focuses on queer and transgender (trans) histories of games\, computational media and electronic art. Their latest article\, “How the Computer Taught Us to See\,” will be published this fall in Camera Obscura by Duke University Press.   How to Participate: We want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3YyzMJN   Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus here: https://myumi.ch/egGZr CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/whit-pow-in-conversation-with-sheila-murphy-the-deliberate-history-of-randomness-determinism-race-trans-life-and-the-history-of-random-number-generation/
LOCATION:Weiser Hall 10th Floor Event Space\, 500 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240412T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240412T180000
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SUMMARY:2024 Symposium - ESC: Residues or What Remains
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTThey 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 isn’t attractive to computation\, tricky histories of technological and political moments? What if we attend to residual labor\, the work of cleaning up\, of redirecting vision\, of what is soon to be replaced by machines? What lifeforms and futures with technology might become possible then? For this theme year symposium\, five incredible external speakers will join eight local scholars for a day of conversation and thought about residues\, in all their sticky complexity. HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person in the Ehrlicher Room (North Quad Room 3100). RSVP encouraged for in-person attendance and required if you would like to join for lunch. Please RSVP here. Registration required for virtual webinar attendance. Please register here. SPEAKERS Yangyang Cheng (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar\, award-winning writer\, and public intellectual. Currently\, she is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center\, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and US-China relations. Her essays have appeared in numerous outlets including The New York Times and WIRED\, and won several awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia\, Asian American Journalists Association\, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Trained as a particle physicist\, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider for over a decade\, and received her PhD in physics from the University of Chicago.    Yousif Hassan is an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His work examines the social\, economic\, and political implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI)\, blockchain\, and big data focusing on the relationship between race\, digital technology\, and technoscientific capitalism. Hassan’s interest is at the intersection of social and racial justice\, and technology policy. His most recent project investigates the development of AI and its innovation ecosystem across multiple African countries focusing on data governance and the sociotechnical knowledge production practices of the state\, scientists\, and the tech industry.    Tung-Hui Hu (he/his) is a poet and a media theorist. He is the author of five books\, most recently Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection (MIT Press\, 2022)\, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press\, 2015) and Greenhouses\, Lighthouses (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013). He was awarded the 2022-23 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome\, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan.    Leah Horgan (they/them) is a Providence-based critical informatics scholar whose work examines the intersection of data technology and urbanism through research\, art/media\, and through/in support of housing justice and abolitionist grassroots organizing. They received their PhD from the University of California\, Irvine and are currently a Computing Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow based at Northeastern University and an instructor at Olin College of Engineering.    Pelle Tracey is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information. He uses a mixture of methods to investigate infrastructure\, bureaucracy\, algorithms\, and data work\, particularly in frontline government contexts. His current work is an ethnographic examination of how cities in the US make sense of homelessness through data\, and how people experiencing homelessness make sense of this state response.    Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity\, Race\, and Migration\, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book\, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (Rachel Carson Book Prize 2018)\, takes up questions of technology\, colonialism and raced and gendered labor under globalization. Her second book is Surrogate Humanity: Race Robotics and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke 2019)\, co-authored with Neda Atanasoski\, a project on the racial and gendered politics of robotics and artificial intelligence. With the Precarity Lab\, she is co-author of Technoprecarious (2020)\, which tracks the role of digital technologies in multiplying precarity. A book of her collected work on transnational gestational surrogacy in India is forthcoming under the title\, Reimagining Reproduction: Surrogacy\, Labour and Technologies of Human Reproduction.    Silvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is a writer and ethnographer. Her research focuses on the cultures and politics of technology innovation\, including the labor necessary to incubate entrepreneurial life and data-driven futures. She is the author of the award-winning book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, and co-author of the multigraph Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2020). She is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Director of the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC).    \n\nPatricia Garcia examines how Latinx and Black communities develop agentic relationships with technology and gain greater over their data. Her current work is a collaboration with public libraries to design computational justice programs that support Latinx and Black girls in seeing themselves as active decision-makers who can leverage technologies to participate in individual and collective action. \n  \n\n Weixian Pan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on politics of visuality\, media infrastructure\, and environmental media. Her current book project examines how China’s geopolitical aspirations have been hyper-mediated and entangled with the logic of frontier-making\, between the mid-twentieth century and the present day. Her work appeared in journals such as Asiascape: Digital Asia\, Culture Machine\, Journal of Environmental Media\, and Television and New Media. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University\, Montreal. She is also a recipient of the 2024-2025 ACLS/Luce Fellowship in China Studies.    Cindy Lin (She/Her) is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology and director of the Critical Technocultures Lab at Pennsylvania State University. Her first book project explores statecraft and computing practices in the environmental and mapping sciences in Indonesia and the professional identities and government institutions that emerged from these efforts. She has published two co-authored books entitled Technoprecarious (MIT Press/Goldsmiths Press\, 2020) and Digital Energetics (University of Minnesota Press\, 2023). At the University of Michigan\, she earned a Ph.D. in Information. She was also a postdoctoral scholar at Cornell University and a visiting fellow at the Digital Life initiative at Cornell Tech.     Alyssa Paredes is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is a socio-cultural anthropologist researching plantation capitalism\, environmental activism\, scientific conventions\, and transnational trade between the Philippines and Japan. Her work appears in academic outlets in anthropology\, geography\, food studies\, and Asian Studies\, as well as in the digital environmental humanities project\, Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene\, edited by Anna Tsing\, Jennifer Deger\, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou. She holds a PhD with distinction from Yale University.    Matthew Bui (he/him) is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and an affiliate with the NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Bui’s research foregrounds the local and racial politics of data-driven technologies\, policy\, and platforms\, in order to identify and explore community-driven interventions for outcomes of social and racial justice. His current book project\, Appetite for Data\, explores how digital foodie platforms increasingly mediate important community debates about race\, class\, gentrification\, and cultural and neighborhood “authenticity.”     Stephanie Jordan is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Information and core faculty in the Center for Gender in a Global Context at Michigan State University.  She is a previous tech developer now current ethnographer interested in the social and ethical consequences of big data in the climate and ocean sciences with a focus on sustainability across two axes: technical (materials\, maintenance\, quality control\, calibration) and human (labor\, equity\, resilience)\, and their co-construction. I work in direct collaboration with scientists to enact inclusive principles in the full pipeline of scientific work from problem identification\, design\, deployment and modeling through knowledge dissemination through principles of co-design\, community engagement and participatory methods. My work operates at the intersection of environmental\, design and social justice.    Emilia Yang (She/her/hers) is an artist\, organizer and researcher. Her research explores the role of memory\, violence\, emotions\, performance\, and participation in the political imagination. Her art practice utilizes expanded forms of digital media (XR\, transmedia\, web\, interactive\, films\, archives\, performance\, games and public interventions) for the creation of community-based feminist\, anti-racist and transformative justice projects and futures. Yang received a PhD in Interdisciplinary Media Arts + Practice at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design\, with a focus on Anti-Racism by Design. Personal website www.emiliayang.org
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/2024-symposium-esc-residues-or-what-remains/
LOCATION:Ehrichler Room\, 3100 North Quad\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States
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SUMMARY:Social Media & Society in India
DESCRIPTION:  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 office hours with the speakers. This year’s line-up includes a variety of topics including political and electoral social media use\, platform governance\, brand management\, finance\, healthcare\, and hate speech. Details\, a full program\, and registration info for in person and online viewing can be found here: https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu About:The University of Michigan is hosting the fourth iteration of its hybrid conference on Social Media and Society in India featuring a host of speakers to discuss various ways in which social media is impacting contemporary life in India. The event is a premier venue for conversations around social media and society in India.   This event is hosted by the School of Information\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC)\, the Center for South Asia Studies\,  the Wallace House Center for Journalists\, the Department of Communications and Media\, the Digital Studies Institute\, and the Neely Center\, Marshall School\, University of Southern California.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/social-media-society-in-india/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240405T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240405T163000
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SUMMARY:Anna Greenspan: Mou Zongsan and AI ethics
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 3100 or virtually. Please register here to attend online. TITLEMou Zongsan and AI ethics SPEAKERAnna Greenspan is associate professor of global contemporary media\, NYU Shanghai. ABSTRACTChina has a singular media ecology. Tencent and Alibaba are giant internet platforms that rival Facebook and Google. Urban environments have been entirely reshaped by biometrics and QR codes. Mobile payments have practically replaced cash. My work stems from the basic premise that to understand the contemporary mediasphere requires an engagement with China. This talk will draw from my new book China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy published in the Technicities book series at Edinburgh University Press in 2023 and the upcoming volume Machine Decision is Not Final: The History and Future of China\, which is co-edited with Benjamin Bratton and Bogna Konior and will be published by Urbanomic/MIT Press in 2024. This talk will focus on the work of philosopher Mou Zongsan and argue that a synthesis of media theory and New Confucian thought can deepen and enrich our thinking about AI ethics. This talk is co-sponsored by ESC and the LSA Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/anna-greenspan-mou-zongsan-and-ai-ethics/
LOCATION:Ehrichler Room\, 3100 North Quad\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240308T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240308T160000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Susser: Exploitation and Platform Power
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 2435. TITLEExploitation and Platform Power SPEAKER Daniel Susser is an associate professor of information science at Cornell University. ABSTRACTBig tech “exploits” us. This has become a common refrain among critics of digital platforms. It gives voice to a shared sense that technology firms are somehow mistreating people—taking advantage of us\, extracting from us—in a way that other data-driven harms\, such as surveillance and algorithmic bias\, fail to capture. But what does “exploitation” entail\, exactly\, and how do platforms perpetrate it? What would a theory of digital exploitation add to existing discussions about platform governance? In this paper\, I argue that claims of exploitation help surface important but undertheorized normative intuitions about the platform economy—intuitions about legitimacy\, consent\, and unfair bargains—and that work on exploitation in philosophy and political theory offers indispensable conceptual and normative tools for navigating and addressing these problems. This talk is co-sponsored by ESC and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS).
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/daniel-susser-exploitation-and-platform-power/
LOCATION:Room 2435\, North Quad\, 105 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240307T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240307T160000
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SUMMARY:Apryl Williams: Not My Type - Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants 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 TITLENot My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating SPEAKER Apryl Williams\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. ABSTRACTIn the world of online dating\, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated\, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral\, personal choice about one’s romantic partner. Indeed\, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms\, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating\, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms’ algorithms\, their lack of transparency\, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies’ community guidelines\, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today’s online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences\, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately\, Williams calls for\, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies\, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction\, beauty\, and desirability. This DSI book talk is co-sponsored by ESC.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/apryl-williams-not-my-type-automating-sexual-racism-in-online-dating/
LOCATION:Room 2435\, North Quad\, 105 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T173000
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SUMMARY:Predictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork: Sun-ha Hong in Conversation with John Cheney-Lippold
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants 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 TITLEPredictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork SPEAKER Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. ABSTRACTOur dominant technological futures help maintain decrepit horizons of the social. As Brecht once observed: “I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching\, but it came as the New.” Prediction supplies a powerful conceptual model for this dynamic of stasis through disruption by connecting the technical conceit of predictivity (that criminality or emotion can be anticipated through data-driven modeling) with the mythological use of prediction (where history is an extrapolation of known technological advancements). Drawing from theories of ritual and experiment\, I examine the demonstrative\, belief-building work that prediction does – from 18th century automata of Defecating Ducks to Amazon warehouses\, from the 1956 Dartmouth Conference to the 10\,000 Year Clock. What we call “tech” today serves as a legitimising function for capital\, and crucial to this function is the active foreclosure of any political future other than more of the same. This event is part of the DSI Lecture Series\, and is co-sponsored by ESC.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/predictions-without-futures-of-cosmograms-and-clockwork-sun-ha-hong-in-conversation-with-john-cheney-lippold/
LOCATION:1040 LSA Building\, 500 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240123T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240123T163000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Sung: Indistinguishability/Inscrutability - Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants 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 TITLEIndistinguishability/Inscrutability – Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality  SPEAKER Wendy Sung is assistant professor of race\, media\, and digital culture in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. ABSTRACTThe mug shot and modes of phrenological and photographic comparison to legitimate eugenics-based categorization have long been acknowledged as precursors to modern facial recognition technologies. However\, this talk traces a pre-history of these technologies to different biometric past: the rise of immigration identification papers within the US when the Chinese Exclusion laws marked the formal emergence of visual documentation regulation into immigration policy. Bringing this history to bear on the present\, this talk illuminates how our contemporary moment of facial attunement normalizes a forensic investigatory eye when it comes to facial logics\, one that is indebted to the specificity of the Asian face. I argue that the ways the Chinese seeking entry into the US relied on the very mechanisms of racialized non-recognition— indistinguishability and inscrutability— to bypass exclusion through paper son forgeries constitute foundational logics of facial recognition technologies. Examining two examples of Asian faciality\, reconstructions of the George Floyd murder and performance artist and photographer Tommy Kha’s work\, this talk elucidates that the hyperscrutiny paid to the Asian face and its misrecognitions are not the glitches in facial recognition but are\, in fact\, central features. This event is part of the DSI Lecture Series\, and is co-sponsored by ESC.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/wendy-sung-indistinguishability-inscrutability-facial-recognition-technologies-and-the-logics-of-asian-american-faciality/
LOCATION:Weiser Hall 10th Floor Event Space\, 500 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260613T030219
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SUMMARY:Astria Suparak: Asian Futures\, Without Asians
DESCRIPTION: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 of actual Asian people?” The first iteration of “Asian futures\, without Asians” was an online performance commissioned by The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts\, San Francisco\, as part of their Trinh T. Minh-ha season. The project has developed over a series of live performances made for the Zoom camera and for in-person\, with script\, imagery\, costuming\, and backdrops tailored to each arts institution and country in which it is presented. As part of the inaugural season of the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network’s Search Engines series\, Astria Suparak will present a new\, live multimedia performance edition of the project for the University of Michigan and for our broader community. Part critical analysis\, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor\, justified anger\, and informative morsels\, this hour-long illustrated lecture examines nearly 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing. Using a wide interpretation of “Asian” to reflect current and historical geopolitical trends and self-definitions (inclusive of East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, West Asia\, Central Asia\, North Africa\, and the Pacific Islands—the latter two of which are not Asia)\, this research-creation project examines how Asian cultures have been mixed and matched\, contrasted against\, and conflated with each other\, often creating a fungible “Asianness” in futuristic sci-fi. The quick-paced performance lecture is interspersed with selected images and clips from dozens of futuristic movies and television shows\, as Suparak delivers anecdotes\, trivia\, and historical documents (including photographs\, advertisements\, and cultural artifacts) from the histories of film\, art\, architecture\, design\, fashion\, food\, and martial arts. Suparak discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures\, but decontextualizing and misrepresenting them\, while excluding Asian contributors. Artist:   Astria Suparak is an artist\, writer\, and curator based in Oakland\, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism\, feminisms and gender\, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens\, such as science fiction movies\, rock music\, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work\, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases\, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives. Over the last year Suparak’s creative projects have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; and as part of the For Freedoms billboard series. She has curated exhibitions\, screenings\, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial; Museo Rufino Tamayo\, Mexico City; The Kitchen\, Eyebeam\, and MoMA PS1\, in New York; and Expo Chicago\, as well as for unconventional spaces\, such as roller-skating rinks\, sports bars\, and rock clubs. Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award.   This talk is sponsored by the U-M Digital Studies Institute and co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\, and the U-M Arts Initiative.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/astria-suparak-asian-futures-without-asians/
LOCATION:Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra: Count Me In: How Quantification Shapes Knowledge Politics in Contemporary Higher Education
DESCRIPTION: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:\nHow is knowledge organized in higher education? In recent decades\, the adoption of market-oriented logics within institutions of research and higher education had notable implications on how the pursuit of knowledge is shaped and rewarded. A number of authors have documented how the “commercialization of science” had consequences on the quality of knowledge produced in particular research settings. Backed by distinct cultures of quantification and tied to concrete devices measurement and commensuration\, the broader audit cultures that embed modern research shape what we know and can know. In this talk\, I explore instances of these cultures by looking into the role of research assessments and budget models as mechanisms for shaping and regulating how universities structure their instructional and research operations. This talk shows how several techniques of quantification become important for implementing change in higher education with long-lasting consequences for the distribution of knowledge\, the organization of the sciences\, and the structure of the public sphere. \nSpeaker: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is an Associate Professor in sociology at the University of California\, San Diego\, a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute\, co-founder of the Computational Social Science program at UCSD\, and Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program at UC San Diego. His research concerns markets and their location in contemporary societies with an emphasis on finance\, knowledge\, and organizations.   This talk is part of the STeMS Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC).
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/juan-pablo-pardo-guerra-count-me-in-how-quantification-shapes-knowledge-politics-in-contemporary-higher-education/
LOCATION:1014 Tisch Hall\, 435 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231010T173000
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SUMMARY:Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person at Ehrlicher Room\, 3100 North Quad (Map and Directions).   AboutJoin 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 history and transgender studies. Stone and Adair will be in conversation about how trans people and identities intertwine with technology in the past\, present and future\, and will take questions from the audience. Stone will also discuss the forthcoming documentary film Girl Island\, directed by Marjorie Vecchio\, which chronicles Stone’s many lives\, including being “a sound engineer for Jimi Hendrix\, a lesbian separatist\, founder of trans studies\, and the goddess of cyberspace.”   PanelistsAllucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone is professor emerita of communication at the University of Texas\, Austin; founding core faculty and Wolfgang Kohler professor of media and performance studies at the European Graduate School; senior artist at the Banff Centre; University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellow; and occasional hell-raiser at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and other institutions of higher learning. She was a Sundance Institute invitee\, a member of the Bell Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Group\, conducted research on the neurological basis of vision for NIH\, and was the director for ten years of the International Conferences on Cyberspace. She is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the State of California\, City of Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Diversity Center; and is the author of numerous publications in the fields of science fiction\, neurology\, vision\, architecture\, new media\, and anthropology\, including “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto”\, a founding text for the academic discipline of Transgender Studies.   Cassius Adair is an audio producer\, writer\, and researcher from Virginia. Currently\, he is an assistant professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. Previously\, he has been a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and a Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) with an affiliation at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. He is also a research fellow at the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory at the University of Toronto and an outside member of the Precarity Lab at the University of Michigan. His audio production and narrative editing work spans multiple media and genres. Recent roles include production for the SiriusXM podcast Sounds Gay\, with editor JT Green and host Sarah Esocoff\, and consulting and editorial for KCRW’s Bodies\, Wondery’s Twin Flames and Harsh Reality\, Science Friday\, Call to Mind\, and a yet-to-be-released NPR series. From 2020-2021\, he was the lead producer and showrunner of Transcripts\, a production of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He has provided editorial consulting for fiction projects\, including Brit Bennett’s #1 New York Times Bestseller (and Mariah Carey and Noname reading list pick!) The Vanishing Half. His documentary work has been honored in numerous venues\, including the Third Coast International Audio Festival. With Tuck Woodstock\, he is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting. Adair holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. His writing appears in American Quarterly\, American Literature\, Avidly\, The Rumpus\, Make Literary Magazine\, Nursing Clio\, Misadventures Magazine\, Semiotic Review\, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. He is a coauthor of the experimental scholarly book Technoprecarious (MIT\, 2020) and is currently writing a book about transgender people and the Internet.   This talk is co-sponsored by ESC\, the U-M School of Information\, the U-M Digital Studies Institute\, and the U-M Institute for Research on Women & Gender.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/trans-studies-in-the-virtual-age-a-conversation-and-qa/
LOCATION:Ehrichler Room\, 3100 North Quad\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States
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SUMMARY:ESC Fall Mixer and Theme Launch
DESCRIPTION:   Join us for conversation\, appetizers\, and drinks: Monday\, October 9\n4:00 – 6:00 PM Bløm Meadworks\n100 S 4th Ave STE 110\, A2 48104 (map) UM Faculty and Graduate Students\nRSVP by Wednesday\, October 4 ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-fall-mixer-and-theme-launch/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230516T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230516T170000
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SUMMARY:From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI
DESCRIPTION: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 constantly surrounded by AI technology. From self-driving cars\, to facial recognition software\, fraud prevention models\, recommender systems\, ChatGPT\, etc.\, AI is rapidly transforming our lives. But do we fully comprehend the real range of potential ethical implications related to its use and regulation? This event will stimulate ideas and investigation into that question by bringing together academics\, leaders and scientists in the private sector and policy regulation areas\, to share their knowledge and discuss ethical challenges and trends in AI regulation\, along with cutting-edge theory and implementation of ethical and transparent AI models. The event is free and open to all who develop AI methods\, are current or future users of AI\, or are curious about how AI will shape research and our society.   This event is hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC) and Rocket Companies\, Inc.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/from-theory-to-practice-building-ethical-and-trustworthy-ai/
LOCATION:MI
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SUMMARY:ESC Watch Party: Moon (2009)
DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person at North Quad (105 S. State St\, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109)\, Space 2435. ABSTRACTAstronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of his three year contract of harvesting Helium-3\, a precious energy source\, from the far side of the moon. His only communication with Earth is through the use of pre-recorded messages\, and his only assistant a computer named GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Isolation begins to take an alarming toll on his mind\, mere weeks before he is to return home. This sets into motion a series of events which reveals the terrible truth behind his mission. (imdb) Rated “R” for profanity. DETAILSJoin us for an in-person movie night with Moon (2009). Hailed as a “tremendous” (BBC) sci-fi achievement filled with “captivating” performances (Film Obsessive). the film has been described as a “beautifully-crafted fable about the consequences of human greed and unfettered technological endeavour” (RollCredits) with an unusual take on the future role of AI companions. Reviewers warn it will leave “viewers quietly questioning their…opinions [of] humanity” (FilmDaze). The event will include complimentary popcorn and drinks\, as well as a prize giveaway.    Image credits: Sony Pictures Classics; GERTY 3000 Robotic Assist Group.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-watch-party-moon/
LOCATION:MI
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Mara Mills: The History of Impairment
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Mara Mills: The History of Impairment\, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.How to Participate:Details to come as they become available. More information can be found here: https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/news-events/all-events.detail.html/102183-21803656.html Speaker:Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University with expertise in sound studies\, disability studies\, business history\, the history of electronics\, and the history of the telephone. Her book Hearing Loss and the History of Information Theory is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Mills is currently working on the history of optical character recognition and\, with Jonathan Sterne\, she is co-authoring a book titled Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. She has published articles in Technology & Culture\, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing\, Grey Room\, differences\, Social Text\, and PMLA\, among many other academic journals. This event is part of the Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) lecture series\, and is co-sponsored by the Departments of American Culture; Communication and Media\, Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC) and UM Initiative in Disability Studies.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/mara-mills-the-history-of-impairment/
LOCATION:MI
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