This online forum, consisted of eleven short essays from students, wraps up the Sawyer Seminar on Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data. Each contributor reflects…… Read more “Online Forum: Data and Fieldwork in Our Present”
Past Events
29 April 2022 – For the Sake of the Climate: Meditations on Retooling the Economy
https://youtu.be/NEm5zHa80Qg In this roundtable we bring together a truly remarkable set of experts from the fields of climate economics, anthropology and sociology of the climate, and the…… Read more “29 April 2022 – For the Sake of the Climate: Meditations on Retooling the Economy”
3 April 2022 – The Ethics and Philosophy of Teaching Violent Histories
https://youtu.be/LpbnFhS0sVY Professor Furrukh Khan, from Lahore University of Management Sciences, interviews Professor Veena Das from Johns Hopkins University on the ethics and philosophy of teaching violent histories…… Read more “3 April 2022 – The Ethics and Philosophy of Teaching Violent Histories”
16 March 2022 – Eduardo Kac, Telepresence: Bio Art and Space Poetry
The Sawyer Seminar in partnership with the Center for Advanced Media Studies presents Eduardo Kac in conversation with physicist Mark Kamionkowski, poet Dora Malech, historian of science…… Read more “16 March 2022 – Eduardo Kac, Telepresence: Bio Art and Space Poetry”
11 March 2022 – Forest Life, Scientific Practice, Climate Politics
https://youtu.be/PzgIq2bgIIU Bringing together academics and practitioners of forest science, climate and forest policy, anthropology, and social studies of science, this workshop asks how climate imperatives remake the…… Read more “11 March 2022 – Forest Life, Scientific Practice, Climate Politics”
4 Feb 2022 – Architecture of In/Security: Mapping Bombs, Bricks, and Militarization in Lahore
4 Feb 2022 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST Mergenthaler 426, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus for Zoom information: https://sawyer-2-4.eventbrite.com Sadia Shirazi – Asian American, Pacific Rim,…… Read more “4 Feb 2022 – Architecture of In/Security: Mapping Bombs, Bricks, and Militarization in Lahore”
11 Feb 2022 – Climate Change and Institutional Imagination
https://youtu.be/XXE7xWm16HE In this roundtable, the first event of the Sawyer Climate Workshop Series, we brought together an extraordinarily experienced set of individuals who have been involved either…… Read more “11 Feb 2022 – Climate Change and Institutional Imagination”
12.8.21 | Primary Sources, Computational Intelligence, and Discovering Connections Between Fields
December 8, 2021, 7-9:00 pm EST Tom Lippincott (digital humanities, Johns Hopkins University) Chris Cannon (english and classics, Johns Hopkins University) Combining the depth and flexibility of…… Read more “12.8.21 | Primary Sources, Computational Intelligence, and Discovering Connections Between Fields”
11.15.21 | Sandra Laugier, “The Fact and Fiction of Television”
When Cavell’s “The Fact of Television” was published in Daedalus in 1982, it was still very much one among “themes out of school”. Since the early 1980s, however,…… Read more “11.15.21 | Sandra Laugier, “The Fact and Fiction of Television””
10.15.21 | The CURRENT ECONOMY: a book discussion with Canay Özden Schillling
The second Sawyer Seminar event of the semester will be a panel discussion of Canay Özden-Schilling’s new book, The Current Economy: electricity markets and techno-economics. In addition to…… Read more “10.15.21 | The CURRENT ECONOMY: a book discussion with Canay Özden Schillling”
9.17.21 | Black Beyond Data: Combating Racial Injustice through the Digital Humanities
Our first event of the semester will feature Kim Gallon (Associate Professor of History, Purdue University); Jessica Marie Johnson (Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins); Sasha White…… Read more “9.17.21 | Black Beyond Data: Combating Racial Injustice through the Digital Humanities”
UPCOMING EVENTS for 2021-22
We are excited to announce the series of events planned for the 2021-2022 academic year! Links for registration will be available both via the Sawyer Seminar email…… Read more “UPCOMING EVENTS for 2021-22”
11/20/20 In Utero Exposure to Industrial Disasters: A Case Study of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
The Sawyer Seminar hosted a discussion on November 20th, 2020 with Professor Prashant Bharadwaj (UC San Diego Economics) presenting a case study, while Professor Shareen Joshi (Georgetown…… Read more “11/20/20 In Utero Exposure to Industrial Disasters: A Case Study of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy”
Concepts and Data: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Concepts and Data: An Interdisciplinary Workshop brought together scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political science, and computer science to explore a range of questions regarding the epistemological and social consequences of digitalization, big data, visualization, and measurement.
9/18/20 Spyware and Predictive Policing: The Merging of Historic and Big Data
Discussion Notes by Heba Islam New York Times Bureau Chief for Mexico Azam Ahmed and Johns Hopkins Sociology Instructor Dr. Stuart Schrader, in a discussion moderated by…… Read more “9/18/20 Spyware and Predictive Policing: The Merging of Historic and Big Data”
Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data 