Spring 2024 Schedule
Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Modality |
Jan. 19 | [no talk; introduction to course for enrolled students] | ||
Jan. 26 | Anna Gibson (MIT) | “Entrepreneurial Moderation: Managing Speech in the Age of Influence” | in-person |
Feb. 2 | Ariel Ludwig (Brandeis) | “Carceral & Abolitionist STS: Technology Behind Bars” | in-person audience; virtual speaker |
Feb. 9 | Andrew Lea (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) | “Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth Century America” | in-person |
Feb. 16 | Jamee Elder (Tufts) | “What is a ‘direct’ image of a shadow?: A history and epistemology of ‘directness’ in black hole imaging” | in-person |
Feb. 23 | [no Lunch Seminar] | ||
Mar. 1 | Elena Denia (Tufts) | “Bad Science: When the Ideal of Science Breaks Down” | in-person |
Mar. 8 | Kaylla Cantilina (Tufts) | “Exploring narrative inquiry amidst a positivist paradigm” | in-person |
Mar. 15 & Mar. 22 | [no Lunch Seminar either day; Spring Break and the Friday beforehand] | ||
Mar. 29 | Crystal Lee (MIT) | “Searching for ‘alt-tech’ platforms and the parallel economy” | in-person |
Apr. 5 | Adam “Kaz” Kaszynski (IUE-CWA Local 201) | in-person | |
Apr. 12 | Margaret Gatonye (UMass Boston) | “Turbines and Nets: The Intersection of Offshore Wind, Fisheries, and Communities” | in-person |
Apr. 19 | Dave Miller (Tufts) | “The least of the problems with automated driving is the driving part” | in-person |
Apr. 26 | [no Lunch Seminar; final Friday of SP24 semester] | ||