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  • Dan Greene: The Promise of Access

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    TO PARTICIPATE This Webinar is free and open to the public. Click here to register.   TITLE The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope SPEAKER Daniel Greene, University of Maryland ABSTRACT Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn […]

  • J. Khadijah Abdurahman: Predicting Prevention — Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System

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    HOW TO PARTICIPATE This event is free and open to the public. Click here to join the event: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98631322771 This event has passed. Video of this event is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZtUnGcTZjA TITLE Predicting Prevention: Algorithmic Logics in the Child Welfare System SPEAKER J. Khadijah Abdurahman, The American Assembly and Columbia University in conversation with Christian Sandvig, […]

  • 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 […]