BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT STS - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT STS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT STS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T183000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20231130T181018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231130T181018Z UID:115092-1701795600-1701801000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Panel on "Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases" DESCRIPTION:You are kindly invited to the Panel Discussion (Dec 5th) and Exhibit (Dec 4-13th) on the “Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases.” \nPlease sign up for the panel discussion at this link: https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/infectiousdisease_paradigmshift\nSpeakers and Panelists:  \n\nProf. Joel Gill\, Boston University\nhttps://www.bu.edu/cfa/about/contact-directions/directory/joel-christian-gill/\n\n\nProf. John Durant\, MIT\n      https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/john-durant/\n\n\nProf. Edward Nardell\, Harvard University\n      https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/edward-anthony-nardell\n\n\nProf. Robin Scheffler\, MIT\n      https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/robin-scheffler/\n\n\nProf. Carl Zimmer\, Yale University\n      https://carlzimmer.com/about/\n\n  \nThe Exhibit is open for all at the dates below: \nExhibition on the scientific method and science advances via comics and illustrations. \nProfessor Bourouiba and Artist Argha Manna are working to showcase a historical perspective on the scientific method and the “highly nonlinear” evolution of ideas in science through a range of examples ranging from physics and astronomy to infectious disease transmission via comics as illustration. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/panel-on-paradigm-shift-in-infectious-diseases/ LOCATION:14-130 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231106T180000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20231024T163735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231101T142150Z UID:115052-1699286400-1699293600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Arthur Miller Lecture in Science and Ethics: “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” by Geoffrey Hinton DESCRIPTION:“Humanity is at a turning point with AI\,” says Geoffrey Hinton\, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google and recently quit after 10 years will address his concerns about accelerated progress of deep learning and its potential impact on humanity. AI is reshaping everything from how we write to how we engage with the world. While computers were first designed for humans to tell them what to do\, they’re now learning to “think” for themselves. Join Geoffrey Hinton\, AI pioneer and co-founder of deep learning\, November 6th at 4 pm for a webinar\, “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence\,” a discussion of AI and humanity’s future.  Register here today. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/arthur-miller-lecture-on-science-and-ethics-will-digital-intelligence-replace-biological-intelligence-by-geoffrey-hinton/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20230412T135134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230413T140221Z UID:114923-1683561600-1683567000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:2022-23 Morison Prize and Lecture with danah boyd\, PhD - "Made\, Not Found: Grappling with the Vulnerabilities of Data" DESCRIPTION:From danah boyd’s website:\ndanah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society\, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation\, algorithmic bias\, privacy practices\, social media\, and teen culture. Her monograph “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society\, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nAbout the talk:\nMade\, Not Found: Grappling with the Vulnerabilities of Data \nThe U.S. census is a piece of data infrastructure upon which countless programs\, policies\, and decisions depend. In fact\, many data produced in the 21st century ripples through complex sociotechnical systems\, shaping actions far from the point of data production and collection. This is particularly visible when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence systems. By understanding how data are made\, we can start to appreciate the various work that goes into ensuring that data are resilient. \nIn this talk\, danah will draw on lessons learned studying the construction of 2020 U.S. census data to grapple with the ways in which political forces shape data in order to shape the systems that depend on those data. This talk will weave through discussions of differential privacy\, statistical repairwork\, and epistemic contestations about what makes data “real” to showcase the invisible layers of data that we all take for granted. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2023-morison/ LOCATION:E51 – Wong Auditorium\, 2 Amherst Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20230118T163310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T163419Z UID:114890-1676304000-1676309400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Spring Speaker Series 2023 - Monday\, Feb. 13\, 2023 - Bananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism DESCRIPTION:Anthropology • History • Science\, Technology\, and Society\n  \nAlyssa Paredes\nDepartment of Anthropology\nUniversity of Michigan\n  \n\nMonday\, Feb. 13\n4:00PM-5:30PM\nHayden Library\,\nNexus 14S-130 \nQuestions? Please email sts-events@mit.edu. \n  \nBananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism\nPlantation regimes and transnational commodity trading confront a serious challenge in the 21st century. For every commodity that travels long-distance chains\, there are multiple externalities that are hidden and unaccounted for—not by accident\, but by design. Externalities are the social and environmental costs of production that are considered external because they are not accounted for in its calculus nor in the final price of a product\, even as they contribute to value creation in uncompensated ways. \nWhat if ethnographers wrote about powerful industries with the assumption that their acts of violence\, force\, and disregard come from a place of weakness rather than strength\, and vulnerability rather than hegemony? \n  \n\n  \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/spring-speaker-series-2023-paredes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20220914T140513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T140744Z UID:114859-1663603200-1663608600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Fall Speaker Series 2022 - Monday\, Sept. 19\, 2022 - The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil and Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago DESCRIPTION:Anthropology • History • Science\, Technology\, and Society\n\nRyan Jobson\nDepartment of Anthropology\nUniversity of Chicago\n  \n\nMonday\, Sept. 19\n4:00PM-5:30PM\nHayden Library\,\nNexus 14S-130* \n*Individuals who do not have an MIT ID must RSVP by Friday\, Sept. 16\, 12pm to be registered for campus access via Tim Tickets. \nPlease email sts-events@mit.edu. \n  \nThe Petro-State Masquerade: Oil and Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago\n  \nThe “Petro-State Masquerade” considers how postcolonial political futures in the Caribbean nation­ state of Trinidad and Tobago came to be staked to the market futures of oil\, natural gas\, and their petrochemical derivatives. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research\, this paper theorizes how the tenuous relationship between oil and political power-enshrined in the hyphenated form of the petro-state is represented by postcolonial state officials as a Carnivalesque ”masquerade of permanence” through the perpetual expansion of fossil fuel ventures. At the same time\, low oil and gas prices\, diminishing reserves\, and renewable energy innovations threaten the viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. \nIn turn\, this paper examines the turn to offshore exploration in the deep-water sector beginning in 1998. Characterized by protracted production cycles\, deep-water ventures feature prohibitive costs and a comparatively low probability of success. After several deep-water ventures failed to yield substantive commercial quantities of oil or gas\, the unfulfilled potential of a lucrative offshore geology is invoked to mitigate uncertainty and secure the long-term viability of the Trinbagonian energy sector. In their masquerade\, state officials depict fossil fuels as inexhaustible resources waiting to be unearthed by multinational capital and novel extractive technologies. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/fall-speaker-series-2022-jobson/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20220225T214757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220323T124253Z UID:114755-1647532800-1647538200@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:2021-22 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics: Prof. Kendall Hoyt\, MIT HASTS '02\, Dartmouth College DESCRIPTION:FASTER VACCINES: A look at the past\, present\, and future of our efforts to accelerate development.\nGuest Lecturer: Professor Kendall Hoyt\, MIT HASTS ’02\, Assistant Professor\, Geisel School of Medicine; Senior Lecturer\, Thayer School of Engineering\, Dartmouth College \nDATE:      Thursday\, March 17\, 2022 \nLOCATION:  Bartos Theater\, MIT\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA \nENTRANCE:  Tim Ticket scanners are located at the List Gallery entrance\, upper atrium\, by the archway. \nTIME:      4:00PM – 5:30PM [Reception to follow in the Lower Atrium] \nProf. Hoyt teaches courses on biosecurity\, health systems\, and technological innovation. Her research is focused on health security\, innovation policy\, and vaccine development. She serves on the US Covid Commission Planning Group. She has served as a consultant for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She is the author of Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense\, Harvard University Press\, 2012. \nPRE-REGISTER at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-22-arthur-miller-lecture-on-science-and-ethics-registration-276868480077 \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/2021-22-arthur-miller-lecture-on-science-and-ethics-prof-kendall-hoyt-mit-hasts-02-dartmouth-college/ LOCATION:Bartos Theater\, E15 Atrium Level\, 20 Ames Street CATEGORIES:Special Event,Arthur Miller Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Poster-Kendall-Hoyt-AML.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220311T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220311T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T150929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T151122Z UID:114647-1647009000-1647016200@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Victor Seow\, Harvard: History of Energy Regimes in East Asia DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-victor-seow-harvard-history-of-energy-regimes-in-east-asia/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220225T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T150511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T150511Z UID:114646-1645799400-1645806600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Caterina Scaramelli\, BU: Anthropology of Wetlands in Turkey DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-caterina-scaramelli-bu-anthropology-of-wetlands-in-turkey/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T130000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211206T152538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211206T152626Z UID:114679-1639656000-1639659600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Robin Scheffler: Molecular Medicine in the War on Cancer: Success or Failure? DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, DECEMBER 16\, 2021\, 12PM-1PM EST \nNIH VIDEO CAST:  https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44150 URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/robin-scheffler-molecular-medicine-in-the-war-on-cancer-success-or-failure/ CATEGORIES:Special Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lecture-Series_N_Comfort_sm-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211203T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T144537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T144859Z UID:114645-1638541800-1638549000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Jay Turner\, Wellesley: History of Batteries and Their Life-Cycle from Extraction to Disposal DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-jay-turner-wellesley-history-of-batteries-and-their-life-cycle-from-extraction-to-disposal/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T153000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20210902T233440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210909T135203Z UID:114623-1637073000-1637076600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Andrea Ballestero: A Future History of Water\, or\, How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices? DESCRIPTION:A Future History of Water\, or\, How to Wonder With Techno-Legal Devices?  \nAbstract \nHow do people commit to intervening in the future while acknowledging its unruliness? I propose the figure of the techno-legal device as a lively space where we can learn how people constantly negotiate the form of the worlds they want to bring about. I will focus on one device: a list of water types produced by Costa Rican congressional representatives during the discussion of a constitutional reform to recognize water as a public good and a human right. During the fifteen years the discussion lasted\, Libertarian representatives made a series of seemingly outrageous claims: they theatrically declared that if water were a human right\, ice cubes would become state property; they claimed that since all human bodies are 70% water\, the reform would turn 70% of human bodies into state property. Session after session\, they produced a typology of state-owned waters that challenged any definition of what water is\, of where its borders sit\, and of what ideas such as public goods and human rights entail. When analyzed as a techno-legal device\, the Libertarian list allows people to establish relations with facts\, matter\, and politics. I will argue that in this capacity\, a taxonomic list helps us see how a theatrical rejection of the human right to water is in fact the making of a future history—a way of bringing about a series of preconditions that can only be recognized as meaningful in the yet to come. \nBio:  \nAndrea Ballestero is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at USC and Director of the Ethnography Studio  https://ethnographystudio.org/. She is the author of A Future History of Water (Duke University Press\, 2019) where she examines the means by which the human right to water is materialized and proposes the notion of a techno-legal device as a site for future-making. She is also the co-editor of Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press 2021)\, a collection of experimental protocols that expand the meaning of ethnographic analysis. She is currently writing a book that explores cultural imaginaries of the underground in Costa Rica\, focusing on how the emergence of aquifers into the public sphere (via hydrogeology and discussions over private property) is expanding the social world downwards into subterranean space.  Recent articles include The Anthropology of Water (Annual Review of Anthropology 2019)\, Touching with Light (Science\, Technology and Human Values\, 2019)\, and Learning to Listen to the Underground a co-written experimental audiovisual piece published in the journal Sensate. Her works can be found at https://andreaballestero.com/ \nScience\, Technology\, and Human Rights Fall Speaker Series\nHow have science and technology  historically shaped understandings of human rights? How have human rights frameworks shaped the creation and use of scientific and technological capabilities? This speaker series explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time\, including how science and technology have been mobilized historically in the defense of human rights and to assist in the pursuit of truth and justice after atrocity. The series is tied to the fall semester course STS.458 Science\, Technology\, and Human Rights. \nAll talks are open to the public. \nMIT STS Faculty and Moderator: \nProf. Eden Medina\, Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) \nPRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Krv2JkATCyDOAOuhKxpOA URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/andrea-ballestero-a-future-history-of-water-or-how-to-wonder-with-techno-legal-devices/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LOGO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T143934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T143934Z UID:114644-1636727400-1636734600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Bernadette Pérez\, UC-Berkeley: History of Migrant and Sugar Beet Workers in the US West DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-bernadette-perez-uc-berkeley-history-of-migrant-and-sugar-beet-workers-in-the-us-west/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T153000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20210902T215402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210908T195712Z UID:114617-1636468200-1636471800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Sandra Ristovska: Seeing Human Rights: How Video Serves Distinct Policy Functions DESCRIPTION:Seeing Human Rights: How Video Serves Distinct Policy Functions \nSandra Ristovska \nAbstract \nVisual technologies have long constituted a crucial element of struggles for human rights and social change. There are numerous examples: etchings about the abolition of slavery in England; photographs of the US Civil War; antifascist prints in Mexico; newsreels of the suffragettes; and satellite images of mass graves in Bosnia\, to name just a few. In this talk\, I will discuss how human rights organizations are borrowing from this long-standing and wide-ranging tradition as they seek to professionalize video activism through video production\, verification standards\, and training. The result\, I argue\, is a proxy profession that helps legitimize video’s potential to serve distinct policy functions while brokering human rights voices across institutional and legal domains. \nBio \n Sandra Ristovska is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the College of Media\, Communication\, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies the interplay between images and human rights\, particularly in institutional and legal contexts. A 2021 Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellow\, she is the author of Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession (MIT Press\, 2021) and co-editor of Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice (Palgrave\, 2018). \n  \nScience\, Technology\, and Human Rights Fall Speaker Series\nHow have science and technology  historically shaped understandings of human rights? How have human rights frameworks shaped the creation and use of scientific and technological capabilities? This speaker series explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time\, including how science and technology have been mobilized historically in the defense of human rights and to assist in the pursuit of truth and justice after atrocity. The series is tied to the fall semester course STS.458 Science\, Technology\, and Human Rights. \nAll talks are open to the public. \nMIT STS Faculty and Moderator: \nProf. Eden Medina\, Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) \nPRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_guTXHHtzREeoar8HgjUU6A URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/sandra-ristovska-seeing-human-rights-how-video-serves-distinct-policy-functions/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LOGO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T143746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T143746Z UID:114643-1636122600-1636129800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Bartow Elmore\, OH State: History of Monsanto and Ecological Impacts of Agrochemical Industries DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-bartow-elmore-oh-state-history-of-monsanto-and-ecological-impacts-of-agrochemical-industries/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211101T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211015T162810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T171006Z UID:114651-1635782400-1635787800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk with Anne Pollock\, Ph.D\, '07: Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States DESCRIPTION:ANNE POLLOCK\, ’07\, \nProfessor of Global Health and Social Medicine\n\n\nKing’s College\, London\n \nSICKENING: ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE UNITED STATES\nAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americansin the twenty-first century. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis\, Sickening surveys the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. It deconstructs the structures that make these events possible\, including mass incarceration\, police brutality\, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies\, revealing the everyday racialization of health in the U.S.\n\n \nOpen to the Public with Limited Seating.\nPlease email gusz@mit.edu to RSVP.\n \nTim Ticket Registration: https://visitors.mit.edu/?event=5351fcdb-f0bb-4066-93f5-24a7a256e3b5\n\n\nAttendees will be required to check-in with their MIT ID/Mobile ID or Tim Ticket.\n\n \nE51-095 is located at Tang Center\, 2 Amherst Street\, Cambridge\, MA 02142.  \nTim Ticket entrance is located at the corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets.  \n \n***Reminder that masking indoors is currently required at MIT regardless of vaccination status.\n\n\n\n\n \n\nSponsored by:\nPROGRAM IN SCIENCE\, TECHNOLOGY\, AND SOCIETY\n&\nDEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY\n\n  \n  \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/book-talk-with-anne-pollock-ph-d-07-sickening-anti-black-racism-and-health-disparities-in-the-united-states/ LOCATION:E51-095\, MA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/book-cover.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211015T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20211004T151130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T151130Z UID:114641-1634308200-1634315400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:(SEAH) Tony Perry\, UVA: History of Slavery and Environmental Knowledge in Antebellum Maryland DESCRIPTION:This seminar series is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nThe co-conveners of the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History (SEAH)\, including Megan Black (Histor) Kate Brown (STS)\, Tristan Brown (History)\, Deborah Fitzgerald (STS)\, and\, Harriet Ritvo (History).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions are held from 2:30 to 4:30 pm on Zoom\, register in advance for each seminar. \nContact history-info@mit.edu for Zoom link. \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/seah-tony-perry-uva-history-of-slavery-and-environmental-knowledge-in-antebellum-maryland/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Flyer-SEAH-2021-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211005T153000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20210902T213831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210909T135243Z UID:114615-1633444200-1633447800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Robin C. Reineke: Forensic Citizenship Among Families of Missing Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border DESCRIPTION:Forensic Citizenship Among Families of Missing Migrants Along the U.S.-Mexico Border \nAbstract \nSince the mid-1990s\, US federal policy has funneled unauthorized migration through remote portions of the Sonoran Desert\, resulting in thousands of deaths and disappearances. A growing body of literature on the work to find\, care for\, and identify those who have died at international borders largely focuses on forensic authorities or humanitarian volunteers. Often left out of such analyses are the families of the missing and dead\, who I argue are some of the most critical actors in such work. Drawing on fieldwork done between 2006 and 2021\, in this article I discuss how families of missing migrants impact forensic science procedures along the US-Mexico border. They do this through the development of knowledge\, skills\, and relationships with NGOs and government-employed forensic authorities. I argue that families of missing migrants are engaged in active citizenship that builds relationships of care and obligation among and between themselves\, forensic scientists\, and the missing and dead. \nBio: \nRobin Reineke is a sociocultural anthropologist with specializations in transnational migration\, science and technology studies\, human rights\, forensic anthropology\, and biopolitics. Her research and fieldwork are focused on the US-Mexico border region\, especially the Sonoran Desert. Her past research investigated the impact of border deaths and disappearances on immigrant communities\, and the ways in which families of missing migrants have changed the practice of forensic science in the US-Mexico borderlands. From 2006 – 2020\, she worked closely with the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner\, and then co-founded the Colibrí Center for Human Rights\, which she directed from 2013 – 2019. Dr. Reineke is Assistant Research Social Scientist at the University of Arizona’s Southwest Center and Affiliated Faculty in the School of Anthropology and the Latin American Studies Department. She is a 2021 Confluence Center Faculty Fellow. She was awarded the Institute for Policy Studies’ Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award and Echoing Green’s Global Fellowship both in 2014. \nScience\, Technology\, and Human Rights Fall Speaker Series\nHow have science and technology  historically shaped understandings of human rights? How have human rights frameworks shaped the creation and use of scientific and technological capabilities? This speaker series explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time\, including how science and technology have been mobilized historically in the defense of human rights and to assist in the pursuit of truth and justice after atrocity. The series is tied to the fall semester course STS.458 Science\, Technology\, and Human Rights. \nAll talks are open to the public. \nMIT STS Faculty and Moderator: \nProf. Eden Medina\, Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) \nPRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kqKYJTvHROObgL6iMUQQkA URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/robin-c-reineke-forensic-citizenship-among-families-of-missing-migrants-along-the-u-s-mexico-border/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LOGO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210928T141500 DTSTAMP:20260515T061500 CREATED:20210902T212550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210909T135422Z UID:114613-1632834900-1632838500@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Oriana Bernasconi: Documenting Atrocities: Human Rights Archives\, Technologies of Resistance\, and Insurgent Knowledge DESCRIPTION:“Documenting atrocities: Human Rights Archives\, atrocities artifacts & insurgent knowledge” \nAbstract \nAs Bickford et al. state\, the “modern human rights movement has relied on documents of all forms since its earliest days”.[1] The documentary material that offers evidence of atrocities takes myriad forms. It includes handwritten testimonies and first-hand oral stories\, letters written from concentration camps\, declarations by survivors\, relatives and witnesses\, drawings recreating places of imprisonment or the practices of torture\, clandestine magazines and pamphlets printed in secret\, graffiti denunciations on city walls\, photographs\, videos\, audio recordings\, personal objects\, press clippings and radio news\, documents produced by official agencies or local bureaucrats\, police archives\, and perpetrator confessions. \nThese social objects inscribe and corroborate human rights violations. They name criminals and identify practices and places of repression. They help to reveal the mechanisms with which terror operates. They tell of different forms of dealing with harm\, dispossession\, and mourning. And they also bear witness of practices of denunciation and resistance to violence. \nThe aim of this talk is to discuss the social uses and effects of these objects –that we might call ‘atrocity artefacts’–\, as political technologies contributing to the production of insurgent knowledge and shaping non-violent ways of resistance to political violence. \nExamining uses and effects of different human rights archives that inscribe massive human rights violations committed in the last decades in South America we will understand these artefacts amidst scenes of struggle and social and political transformations both past and present. We will raise questions such as the transposition\, transformation and mobility of atrocity’s artefacts over time and the potentiality of these objects for instituting and organizing the social world\, enrolling and socializing actors or propelling cognitive\, aesthetic and moral processes around which different communities may deal with turbulent episodes and reinforce human rights protection. \n[1] Bickford\, Louis\, Patricia Karam\, Hassan Mneimneh and Patrick Pierce. Documenting Truth. New York: International Center for Transitional Justice\, 2008\, p.3. \nBio \n \nOriana Bernasconi is associate professor and director of the PhD programme in Sociology at the Department of Sociology\, Universidad Alberto Hurtado\, Chile. Founder and Co-director of Alberto Hurtado University Human Rights and Memory Interdisciplinary Research Programme: https://memoriayderechoshumanosuah.org/. \nShe holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science\, and a Master degree (MPhil) in Cultural Studies and Sociology from Birmingham University. Since 2015 she has been the lead researcher on a number of projects on the documentation of past atrocities its uses and effects in different areas of social life in Chile and recently\, in Mexico and Colombia. These projects involve association with memory archives\, sites and museums. Her last research “Political Technologies of Memory” was recognized with the Newton Fund Chair’s Prize for the Americas. \nCurrently she is the director of the Anillos de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales SOC180005 (2019-2021) project entitled “Political Technologies of Memory: Contemporary uses and appropriation of past human rights violations registry devices in Chile” funded by Chilean Commission on Science and Technology and developed in association with the Universidad Austral and the National Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Chile. She leads the Fondecyt project “Beyond the Victim Paradigm:  a genealogy of the devices that perform the subject of political violence. Chile\, 1973-2018” funded by the Chilean Commission on Science and Technology (2019-2021). Oriana is also co-researcher of the British Academy’s Sustainable Development Programme 2018 project “Documentality and Display: Archiving and curating the violent past in contemporary Argentina\, Chile and Colombia” (lead researcher Prof. Vikki Bell\, Goldsmiths College\, University of London). \nHer last book “Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America. Documenting Atrocity” (Palgrave\, 2019); translated as “Documentar la Atrocidad. Resistir el Terrorismo de Estado”  (Ediciones Alberto Hurtado 2021) provides in-depth analysis on state violence documentation\, denunciation and resistance and how it affected civilians\, activists and victims. She has published in Subjectivity\, Sociology\, Symbolic Interaction\, Discourse & Society\, International Journal of Transitional Justice\, Qualitative Sociological Research\, among other journals. \nScience\, Technology\, and Human Rights Fall Speaker Series\nHow have science and technology  historically shaped understandings of human rights? How have human rights frameworks shaped the creation and use of scientific and technological capabilities? This speaker series explores the relationship of science and technology to ideas about human rights over time\, including how science and technology have been mobilized historically in the defense of human rights and to assist in the pursuit of truth and justice after atrocity. The series is tied to the fall semester course STS.458 Science\, Technology\, and Human Rights. \nAll talks are open to the public. \nMIT STS Faculty and Moderator: \nProf. Eden Medina\, Associate Professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) \nPRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RSSdBUotRcmAQ1zH8PU8gw URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/oriana-bernasconi-documenting-atrocities-human-rights-archives-technologies-of-resistance-and-insurgent-knowledge/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LOGO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210922T133000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20210913T155731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T155911Z UID:114632-1632313800-1632317400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press\, 2021) DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us on Zoom to celebrate the launch of the book Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data (MIT Press\, 2021) with editors Nanna Bonde Thylstrup\, Daniela Agostinho\, Annie Ring\, Catherine D’Ignazio\, and Kristin Veel.  \n  \nContributing authors present include: \nOs Keyes\, “(Mis)gendering” \nBoaz Levin & Vera Tollmann\, “Proxies” (with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun) \nRomi Ron Morrison\, “Flesh” \nJacque Wernimont\, “Quantification” \n\nIn Uncertain Archives\, scholars from the social sciences\, STS\, media and communications studies\, and digital humanities analyze concepts relevant to critical studies of big data\, arranged glossary style—from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. They not only challenge conventional usage of such familiar terms as prediction and objectivity but also introduce unfamiliar ones such as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include a broad range of leading and agenda-setting scholars\, including N. Katherine Hayles\, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun\, Johanna Drucker\, Lisa Gitelman\, Safiya Noble\, Sarah T. Roberts\, and Nicole Starosielski. \nDate: Wed\, Sept 22\, 12-1:30pm ET  \nRegister to attend: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-ivrjsqEtDyDDzcIGQ2QhUpDBUjUz2M  \nCo-sponsored by:  \nMIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning  \nMIT Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society \nMIT Comparative Media Studies and Writing  \nPoetic Justice\, MIT Media Lab  \nMIT Data + Feminism Lab \nMIT Press \nHandles of presenters on Twitter: @kanarinka @farbandish @RonMorrison_ @boazmlevin @profwernimont @tollve  @_annie_ring  @NThylstrup  @Agos_Daniella @KristinVeel \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/book-launch-uncertain-archives-critical-keywords-for-big-data-mit-press-2021/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Doc4-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20210216T162742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T162818Z UID:114507-1617978600-1617985800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Cosmology of Mining: Ecological Knowledge in Qing China DESCRIPTION:Tristan Brown of MIT \nRegister for this event \nThis seminar is part of the Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series and is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nFor more information\, contact kalopes@mit.edu URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/the-cosmology-of-mining-ecological-knowledge-in-qing-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20210104T183143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210329T131006Z UID:114443-1615824000-1615827600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:David A. Mindell: The Work of the Future DESCRIPTION:The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines\n \n\nAutomation will transform our work\, our lives\, our society. Whether the outcome is inclusive or exclusive\, fair or laissez-faire\, is up to us. Getting this right is among the most important and inspiring challenges of our time – and it should be a priority for everyone who hopes to enjoy the benefits of a society that’s healthy and stable\, because it offers opportunity for all. In this work\, those of us leading and benefiting from the technology revolution must help lead the way. \n\nJoin Prof. David A. Mindell\, Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing (STS)\, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics\, and co-chair\, MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future\, as he discusses the task force report’s findings. \nRegister in advance for this Zoom Webinar: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sd-yuqzouHdwSoyMigdNPrWYaoFrTJu7p \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nIn the fall of 2017\, MIT President Reif issued a call to action\, for the nation and especially for MIT. In response\, in February 2018\, the formation of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future was announced and in November 2020\, the task force released its final report\, The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines. \nThe report provides insight into how new technologies are changing the nature of work and what institutional reforms are needed to support workers and promote broader shared prosperity. \nThe work of the task force represents the distinctive strengths of the MIT community\, integrating ideas from economics\, engineering\, computer science\, political science\, history\, anthropology\, urban planning\, management\, and more. Task force members worked collaboratively with leaders in industry\, government\, labor\, education\, and the nonprofit sector\, from around the world and across the US\, including from those regions hardest hit by job loss. Together\, they tackled three questions: \n\nHow are emerging technologies transforming the nature of human work and the skills that enable people to thrive in the digital economy?\nHow can we shape and catalyze technological innovation to complement and augment human potential?\nAnd how can our civic institutions – existing and new – ensure that the gains from these emerging innovations contribute to equality of opportunity\, social inclusion\, and shared prosperity?\n\nThe report’s policy recommendations focus on investing in fresh approaches to skill building and education\, improving job quality\, and expanding and shaping innovation. Policy and institutional reform are particularly needed at a time when Covid-19 has exposed many of the weaknesses in our labor market and social insurance system for workers. \nRead more about the task force’s findings on MIT News. \n  \n\n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/david-mindell-the-work-of-the-future/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-04-at-12.35.05-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20210216T163516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T163516Z UID:114508-1615392000-1615397400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Empathy and Our Future DESCRIPTION:Empathy and Our Future\nPlease visit the event webpage to register in advance:  https://www.amacad.org/events/empathy \nWhile many in America are now debating accountability vs. unity\, there is another concept that belongs in any conversation about how America can recover from a divisive election\, devastating pandemic\, and long history of racial injustice – empathy. This event is an opportunity to explore empathy in our increasingly digital world. Eric Liu\, cochair of the American Academy’s Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship\, and Sherry Turkle\, author of the forthcoming memoir The Empathy Diaries\, will discuss the search for authentic connection and repairing torn social fabric in our challenging times. \nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\nEric P. Liu\nPresident and CEO\, Citizen University \n\n\n\n\nSherry Turkle\n\n\nAuthor; Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology\n\n\n\n\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid W. Oxtoby\n\n\nPresident\, American Academy of Arts & Sciences URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/empathy-and-our-future/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T163000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20210216T162601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T162601Z UID:114506-1614349800-1614357000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Working Across Disciplines on Endemic Livestock Disease DESCRIPTION:Abigail Woods of the University of Lincoln \nRegister for this event \nThis seminar is part of the Seminars in Environmental Agricultural History Series and is sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nFor more information\, contact kalopes@mit.edu URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/working-across-disciplines-on-endemic-livestock-disease/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200916T144420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T145122Z UID:114342-1607090400-1607094000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Premodern Pandemics DESCRIPTION:Nükhet Varlik\, University of South Carolina \nMichael McCormick\, Harvard University (tentative) \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/premodern-pandemics/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201201T133000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200923T022310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T023353Z UID:114389-1606824000-1606829400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES: Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia DESCRIPTION:“Missile and Nuclear Insecurity in East Asia” \nGUEST SPEAKER: Masako Ikegami\, Ph. D.\, Professor\, School of Environment and Society\, Tokyo Institute of Technology\, Japan \n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS \nFor more information\, please see MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/missile-and-nuclear-insecurity-in-east-asia/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200916T144322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T145056Z UID:114341-1605880800-1605884400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Sovereignties\, Plagues\, and Policing DESCRIPTION:Mary Augusta Brazelton\, University of Cambridge \nLaura Spinney\, independent writer and science journalist \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/sovereignties-plagues-and-policing/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201117T193000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200923T021934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T023202Z UID:114388-1605636000-1605641400@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES: Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan DESCRIPTION:“Ten years After Fukushima: The Future of Nuclear Power in Japan” \nGUEST SPEAKER: Jun Tateno\, Ph.D.\, Executive Director\, Nuclear and Energy-Related Information Center (NERIC)\, Tokyo\, Japan \n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS \nFor more information\, please see MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:00PM-7:30PM EST (Please note differnt time) URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/ten-years-after-fukushima-the-future-of-nuclear-power-in-japan/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T173000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20190801T162811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201201T174421Z UID:114040-1605542400-1605547800@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence & Ethics DESCRIPTION:It turns out that it is not only social scientists and humanists who are raising concerns about the realities and directions of AI; many students and faculty in engineering are also voicing hesitations about all aspects of it\, something few of us have seen with previous technologies. \nListen in as the panelists raise the right issues about broader currents in computer science\, AI\, and society. \n \nStephanie Dick\, University of Pennsylvania\nPANELIST \n\nStephanie Dick is an Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the faculty\, she was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. She is a historian of mathematics\, computing\, and artificial intelligence. Her first book project Making Up Minds: Proof and Computing in the Postwar United States tracks early efforts to automate mathematical proof and the many controversies about minds and machines that surrounded them. Her second project explores the early introduction of computing to domestic policing in the United States\, including databasing practices and automated identification tools. \nABSTRACT: In 1969\, the New York State Police Department became the first in America to create a centralized and standardized computerized law enforcement database. NYSIIS – the New York State Identification and Intelligence System – was developed after the 1957 Appalachin Meeting of organized crime in New York State\, at which Sergeant Edgar Croswell explained numerous “information circulation” bottlenecks and failures that had slowed his infamous Appalachin raid\, which had resulted in over 60 arrests. He reported that some of the main suspects in his investigation were the subjects of “as many as two hundred separate official police files in a surrounding area of several hundred miles\,” and called for more efficient and centralized file-sharing. The resulting NYSIIS system was heralded as a “scientific breakthrough” in policing that would allow improved objectivity and accuracy especially in the identification of individuals who had multiple encounters with law enforcement. However\, like many supposedly “innovative technologies” NYSIIS was in fact very conservative\, serving to reinforce a social order that subjected different parts of the population differentially to surveillance and policing. In this short presentation\, I will describe the system\, and turn quickly to the 1974 Congressional hearings that followed. The hearings were meant to investigate whether or not people’s rights were being violated by law enforcement databasing practices. However\, their inquiries operated entirely within the logic of databasing\, surveillance\, and automated identification at work in systems like NYSIIS\, never questioning its underlying vision of policing or the policed. I use this case to demonstrate how technical choices can foreclose legal\, ethical\, and political ones and how critique\, when it happens on the terms of that which it critiques\, can strengthen\, more than check technical power. \n \nPaul Dourish\, UC-Irvine\nPANELIST \n\n\nPaul Dourish is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine\, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. He is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses primarily on understanding information technology as a site of social and cultural production; his work combines topics in human-computer interaction\, social informatics\, and science and technology studies. He is the author of several books\, most recently “The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information” (MIT Press\, 2017). He is a Fellow of the ACM\, a Fellow of the BCS\, a member of the SIGCHI Academy\, and a recipient of the AMIA Diana Forsythe Award and the CSCW Lasting Impact Award.\n\nABSTRACT: The technical community’s response to the challenges of ethics in AI has been to turn towards fairness\, accountability\, and transparency as ways of opening up AI decision-making to human scrutiny. These properties have two characteristics — first\, that they look internally to the constitution of technical arrangements\, and second\, that they gesture towards quantitative assessments of impact. I will explore how we might found a notion of ethics and AI around a collective and relational model founded in feminist ethics of care.\n \nSafiya Noble\, UCLA\nPANELIST \n\nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies.  She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). Dr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. \n \nD. Fox Harrell\, MIT\nMODERATOR \n\nphoto credit Bryce Vickmark\nD. Fox Harrell\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of Digital Media & Artificial Intelligence in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. He is the director of the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality. His research explores the relationship between imagination and computation and involves inventing new forms of VR\, computational narrative\, videogaming for social impact\, and related digital media forms. The National Science Foundation has recognized Harrell with an NSF CAREER Award for his project “Computing for Advanced Identity Representation.” Dr. Harrell holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of California\, San Diego. His other degrees include a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunication from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and a B.S. in Logic and Computation and B.F.A. in Art (electronic and time-based media) from Carnegie Mellon University – each with highest honors. He has worked as an interactive television producer and as a game designer. His book Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression was published by the MIT Press (2013). \n  \n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-ethics/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sts-program.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-12.37.38-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T150000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200916T144054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T145032Z UID:114339-1605276000-1605279600@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:Plants and Plagues DESCRIPTION:Jean Beagle Ristaino\, North Carolina State University \nJohn McNeill\, Georgetown University \nTristan Brown\, MIT \nPlease register here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8nuN-O1zRZ27d3f5UjUcLQ URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/plants-and-plagues/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T133000 DTSTAMP:20260515T061501 CREATED:20200923T021726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T023118Z UID:114387-1605009600-1605015000@sts-program.mit.edu SUMMARY:GLOBAL PEACE & INSECURITY SEMINAR SERIES: The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis? DESCRIPTION:“The Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: A Mid-Life Crisis?” \nGUEST SPEAKER: Paul Meyer\, Adjunct Professor\, Simon Fraser University\, Vancouver. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament \n\n**Prior registration is required to obtain Zoom link.**\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register\, please contact Subrata Ghoshroy\, ghoshroy@mit.edu\, Research Affiliate\, STS \nFor more information\, please see MIT Radius\, Global Peace and Insecurity\, A Seminar Series.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://sts-program.mit.edu/event/the-non-proliferation-treaty-at-50-a-mid-life-crisis/ LOCATION:Virtual\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR