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In this discussion, Professor Jay Dolmage will work through an overview of myths that offer a shorthand for the ways that disability is narrowly represented or depicted across cultures. These myths offer evidence of some of the most basic and omnipresent ways that disability is rhetorically shaped.

Have you ever observed a divisive, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? In her most recent book, Discriminating Data (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions.

The Department of History Speaker Series, in collaboration with Ujima Black History Month, is pleased to present Dr. Barrington Walker, associate vice-president, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.