[Ssnet_list] Fwd: [S+T at UW]Add these events to your calendar

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

Crossposted with Society + Technology at UW.

Hey SSNET,

The sun is rising at 6 AM and setting after 8 PM, making it easier than
ever to attend interesting S+T at UW-related events and programs of interest
to the STSS/SSNET community. So, here are several that are happening in the
next couple weeks:

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM EDT (tomorrow!) | Melanie
Walsh (Information School, UW Seattle) is speaking at Reframing Resistance
to AI <https://events.wm.edu/event/view/english/364410>, an online
symposium. The program suggests the panelists will address long-standing
tensions between disciplines and reframe resistance to AI in novel ways to
foster cross-disciplinary solidarity and honor vital curiosity. It's free
and online. Register <https://go.wm.edu/lCxjcs>.

Friday, April 25 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | Shannon Cram (IAS, UW
Bothell) is speaking on a panel for SCA Fridays because she's a winner of
the Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book Unmaking the Bomb:
Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. Congrats! It's
free and online. Register
<https://zoom.us/meeting/register/LPCn1X7hQ1WTQnQeB218kQ#/registration>.
*Tuesday,
April 29, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | Join our S+T at UW Mixer in Tacoma *for
STS In CRISIS. Crisis is a provocation, not a diagnosis. What does STS
offer us in this moment? The mixer is free and in-person. Co-hosted by
Matthew Weinstein and Monika Sengul-Jones. Learn more and register.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfX6QSaoGSfvy-tuwdidFVgt8JbazCpPwRoZxgEKuxIDRikXw/viewform>
*Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT | *Erin McElroy (Geography,
UW Seattle) is co-organizing, with the Simpson Center, Political Software:
Mapping Digital Worlds from Below
<https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D181654208&eventid=181654208>
, which promises to "question the interdependencies between digital
infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures." It's
free and in-person at UW Seattle. Learn more
<https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D181654208&eventid=181654208>
.

Monday, May 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:25 PM | Kim Swenson (Teaching &
Learning, UW Bothell) is the host of the next S+T at UW First Monday STSS
Reading Group, she’ll lead the group in discussion of a podcast episode
around STS, higher thinking, and LLMs. Apropos topic. Free and online.
Email mmjones at uw.edu to learn more and get the calendar invitation.

Friday, May 9, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Join host Yomi Braester (Cinema and
Media Studies, UW Seattle), Mal Ahern (Cinema and Media Studies, UW
Seattle), Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW Seattle), Yijun Li (Journalism and
Information Communication, Huazhong University), Aditya Ramesh (History, UW
Seattle), Daniela Rosner (HCDE, UW Seattle), and Diana Flores Ruiz (Cinema
and Media Studies) for a conversation on representation. Representation is
not a passive act, it’s a constructed practice. Learn what this does and
means from experts engaged with STS and media/cinema studies theories.
Free, in-person, no registration. Just show up to the HUB, Room 307. Open
to the UW community. Lunch provided (while supplies last).

More events are featured on the Society + Technology at UW calendar
<https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/calendar/>. Do you have
a UW event you'd like to showcase on the calendar and/or this listserv?
Share here! This is for all of you.
Looking forward to these conversations and the continued promise of
sunshine.
Yours,
Monika

Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD
Director of Strategy and Operations
Society + Technology at UW
Hosted in the Tech Policy Lab
www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu
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Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her | they/them)

| Director of Strategy & Operations

Society + Technology at University of Washington

Hosted by the Tech Policy Lab, UW Seattle

www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu


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