Spring 2023 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Modality |
Jan. 20 | [no talk; introduction to course] | ||
Jan. 27 | Joe Auner (Tufts University) | “Feedback as Interface” | in-person |
Feb. 3 | Nick Rabb (Tufts University) | “Modeling Disinformation and How the Models Model Us” | in-person |
Feb. 10 | Thuy Linh Tu (New York University) | “An Archive of Feet: Military Dermatology and the Science of Beauty” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |
Feb. 17 | Christina Agapakis (Ginkgo Bioworks) | “Corporate STS: breaking silos and working sociotechnically” | in-person |
Feb. 24 | Sarah Sobieraj (Tufts University) | “Digital Hate, Political Voice, and Social Inequalities” | in-person |
Mar. 3 | D.E. Wittkower (Old Dominion University) | “What even are cats?: A phenomenological investigation” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |
Mar. 10 | Tatiana Chudakova (Tufts University) | “Antiviral Viralities: Navigating Rumor, Shortage, and Drug Efficacies in Russia” | in-person |
Mar. 17 | [no talk – free day!] | ||
Mar. 24 | [no talk – Spring Break] | ||
Mar. 31 | Anthony Kwame Harrison (Virginia Tech) | “From Hypodescent to Musical Segregation: The Racialized Stakes of Sonic Belonging and Estrangement” | in-person |
Apr. 7 | Giulia Taurino (Northeastern University) | “Training ML Models for the Study of Culture” | in-person |
Apr. 14 | Justin Hollander (Tufts University) | “First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet” | in-person |
Apr. 21 | [no talk – substitute Monday’s schedule on Friday] | ||
Apr. 28 | Hi’ilei Hobart (Yale University) | “Thermal Sovereignties” | via Zoom / audience is in-person |