Keith Breckenridge: Recasting The Technologies of the Carceral Empire
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Recasting the Technologies of the Carceral Empire: India, South Africa, and the Political Paradoxes of Post-Colonial Citizenship SPEAKER Keith Breckenridge, University of the Witwatersrand in conversation with Ursula Rao, University of Leipzig ABSTRACT If India in the 19th century […]
Criminal Knowledge: Evidence, Expertise, and the Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Criminal Knowledge: Evidence, Expertise, and the Carceral State SUMMARY From physiognomy to predictive policing, technoscience has long been central to the power of the carceral state. At the same time, carceral sites such as prisons, courtrooms, and crime scenes […]
Privatization, Technology, and the Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Privatization, Technology, and the Carceral State SUMMARY From investment in surveillance technologies to relying on prison labor, the carceral state--like so many other traditional state functions--is being privatized. The state is turning to the private sector in the hopes […]
Living in a Carceral State
HOW TO PARTICIPATE This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public. Register here. TITLE Living in a Carceral State SUMMARY The twenty-first century carceral state inspires anxieties of a national or even global-scale panopticon. Omniscient and omnipresent technologies report our movements, purchases, communications, and even desires to invisible and unaccountable corporations and government […]
Building Equitable Ecologies of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Building Equitable Ecologies of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning October 15, 2021 10:30am-4:00pm, Hybrid Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become a major force that impacts our daily lives in essential ways, from how political messaging and marketing are designed, to automating the process of deciding who gets hired or which neighborhood should be […]
Karen Levy: RoboTruckers
FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS This talk is restricted to participants at the University of Michigan. This talk will be held LIVE online via Zoom. To join, you must use a link from a University of Michigan mailing list or a printed flyer. To obtain a link, sign up to our mailing list at the bottom of […]
Roderic Crooks: “People’s Community Control of Modern Technology”
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 992 9521 5958 (LINK) Passcode: 661093 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE “People’s Community Control of Modern Technology”: Community Organizers and Data […]
Rachel Kuo: Solidarities Across Platforms
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 930 5981 3180 (LINK) Passcode: 704289 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE Solidarities Across Platforms: Racial Politics and Information Practices SPEAKER […]
Kalindi Vora: Anti-Racist AI
HOW TO PARTICIPATE Zoom Meeting ID: 931 5248 3217 (LINK) Passcode: 331064 (Note: For this event, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE Anti-racist AI SPEAKER Kalindi Vora, Yale ABSTRACT This […]
Rebecca Fiebrink — How machine learning can support human creators
A keynote address at the online UM Data Science and AI Symposium. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Registration is required but this symposium is free and open to the public. Click the link at the top of the event page (https://midas.umich.edu/2021-symposium/) to register. TITLE How machine learning can support human creators SPEAKER Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink Reader, Creative Computing […]