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Monday, November 8, 2021 5:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Critical Tech talk presents Nicole Aschoff

Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?

Friday, January 14, 2022 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

History Speaker Series presents Dr. Nana Osei Quarshie

The Department of History Speaker Series is pleased to present Dr. Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of psychiatry, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa.

Thursday, February 10, 2022 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Critical Tech Talk 2 presents Wendy Chun

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.

Thursday, March 17, 2022 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

A life worthy of living: Kolmar's Susanna

Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University) for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella Susanna. After exploring the social and political context in which Susanna was written, the conversation will turn to Kolmar's mode of representing the protagonist as a person with a disability as well as the ways in which she negotiates disability myths and deploys disability rhetorics to inspire readers to read stories about disability ethically.