Upcoming Events:
16 September 2022 – Slum Acts: A Book Symposium (426 Mergenthaler, 10am-1pm)
List of Past Events:
11 March 2022 – Forest Life, Scientific Practice, Climate Politics
16 March 2022 – Telepresence: Bio Art and Space Poetry with Eduardo Kac
29 April 2022 – For the Sake of the Climate: Meditations on Retooling the Economy
11 February 2022 – Climate Change and Institutional Imagination
4 February 2022 – Architectures of In/Security: Mapping Bombs, Bricks, and Militarization in Lahore
Summer 2020 – Fall 2020
- 13 November, 2020: Epidemic Narratives: Data, Visualization, and the Mediation of Care, a Conversation with Kirsten Ostherr, Kim Gallon, and the Center for Medical Humanities
- 31 October, 2020: Concepts and Data, a Workshop with the Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty (Day 2):
- Ruoyu Li: “Data Visualization and Multiple Media”
- Alvitta Ottley: “The Role of Individual Differences in Moderating Decision-Making with Visualization”
- Sandra Laugier: “Significant Data and Digital Culture”
- Discussant: Swayam Bagaria
- Concluding Remarks: Naveeda Khan and Andrew Brandel
- 30 October, 2020: Concepts and Data, a Workshop with the Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty (Day 1):
- Jocelyn Benoist: “Given to No One”
- Juliet Floyd: “Ethica and Data in a Computationally-Driven World: Wittgenstein and Turing”
- Veena Das: “The Givenness in Question in Political Anthropology: How Data Produce Objects”
- Discussant: M. Ali Khan
- 18 September, 2020: Spyware and Predictive Policing, the Merging of Historic and Big Data, a Reading Group Meeting
- 29 August, 2020: Conversation with Dr. Julia Iyasere and the Viral Conjunctions Network, a Reading Group Meeting
- 11 July, 2020: Emerging Insights From COVID-19 Data in South Asia, a Meeting With Yamini Aiyar and Jishnu Das of the Viral Conjunctions Network
- 6 June, 2020: COVID/DATA: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability, a Discussion with Dr. Stuart Ray and Dr. Alexis Walker
Winter 2020 – Spring 2020
- 1 April, 2020: Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Bio Art & Space Poetry, a Screening and Discussion with Edoardo Kac (canceled due to COVID-19)
- 26 March – April 2, 2020: Wen Xi: Tracing Fire, a Multimedia Exploration of the Virtual as Real by Artist Haoran Chang (canceled due to COVID-19)
- 27 March, 2020: Auditing Resilience: Life and Numbers in Uncertain Times, a Symposium (canceled due to COVID-19)
- 25 March, 2020: Creating Parallel Worlds: Health, Science and Data behind Classification Walls, a Reading Group Meeting (canceled due to COVID-19)
- 6 March, 2020: Sense, Sentience, Sensors, a Workshop
- 24 February, 2020: The Data Environment and the New University, Roundtable Symposium
- 12 February, 2020: The Mathematics of Accountability, a Panel with Moon Duchin, Kobbi Nissim
Summer 2019 – Fall 2019
- 12 December, 2019: Optimal Futures: New and Old Economies in a World of Data, a Symposium
- 18-19 November, 2019: When Data Goes to the Market, a Movie Festival
- 13 November, 2019: Designing New Tools For Rapid Decarbonization: Climate Analysis Systems For Practical Action, a Reading Group Meeting
- 30 October, 2019: Genomics: Precision and Uncertainty in a World of DNA Data, a Reading Group Meeting
- 18 October, 2019: Pandemic Preparedness: Financing Responses in an Age of Uncertainty, a Symposium
- 11 September, 2019: Invisible Worlds Revealed by Data, a Reading Group Meeting
Winter 2019 – Spring 2019
- 6 May, 2019: Algorithms and Accountability, a Reading Group Meeting with Juliet Floyd and Matthew Jones
- 10 April, 2019: Big Data and Resource Allocation, a Reading Group Meeting with Sanmay Das
- 24 March, 2019: Privacy and Data, a Reading Group Meeting with Anita Allen
- 13 February, 2019: Virginia Eubanks–Automating Inequality, a Reading Group Meeting