From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Mon Jan 6 06:00:00 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Mon Jan 6 10:25:37 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] It's 2025! | First Monday STSS's new time | S+T Kick-Off Details | Bioethics and Genetics Salons Message-ID: Hi everyone, Is it too far into January to keep the out-of-office autoreply wishing you a Happy New Year? Honestly, I'm still relishing the reflective-intention-setting-novel-reading-hibernation-mode, with a side of Almond Roca, but 2025 has other plans for me--and maybe you, too. *1) Happening Today at 10:30 am | First Monday STSS Reading Group* We have a new time for the First Monday STSS Reading Group this quarter, co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli from 10:30 am to 11:20 am. Join us for a conversation about impact hosted by Dan Tibble (Bioethics & Humanities). Guston, David H. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Impact" Perspectives. Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2024 https://issues.org/measuring-impact-guston/ Email mmjones@uw.edu to get the link to join! *2) Speakers and Event Details for the S+T Inaugural Convening this Friday Announced--It's Not Too Late To Register!* The speaker line-up and event details for the Society + Technology at UW Inaugural Convening this Friday, Jan. 10 from 9 am to 12:30 pm at the Center for Urban Horticulture have been announced. Get the details here. The event marks the launch of the new initiative and will begin with remarks from President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio, as Society + Technology at UW is an outgrowth of the 2021-22 President and Provost Task Force on Technology and Society. The event will feature several affiliated researchers involved in STSS, including Leah Ceccarelli, director of the STSS Graduate Certificate Program and a member of the S+T leadership team, as well as Amy Hinterberger, Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities in the School of Medicine. The kick-off will be a special opportunity to meet colleagues in person at the UW?s Center for Urban Horticulture on Union Bay, approximately 1.1 miles east of the UW Seattle campus, and includes breakfast and a light fare reception. The event is co-sponsored by the Tech Policy Lab with support from the Office of the Provost. It?s free to attend, however registration is required. Learn more and register. *3) New Salon Series Launches Next Week with First Events on Genetics and Bioethics, from STS Perspectives* This is exciting. This January 2025, Society + Technology at UW is launching an online Salon Series. The first two conversations, taking place on January 13 and 14, will prominently feature scholars from our UW STSS community at UW Tacoma, UW Bothell, UW Seattle, and the School of Medicine. These sessions will be intimate, emergent discussions about genetics and bioethics, drawing on concepts from STS. [1] S+T Salon | Online | Genetic Technologies, Technologies of Genetics *Mon, Jan. 13, 2025, 12:30 pm ? 1:45 pm* Register for Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 Salon Perspectives on technologies of genetics, including biostatistics, risk analysis, and more, from anthropological, cultural, and philosophical schools of thought. *Presenters:* *Christian Anderson* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Lisa Hoffman* (Urban Studies, UW Tacoma), *Shannon Cram* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Malia Fullerton* (Dept. of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine), *Sarah Nelson* (Genetic Analysis Center, Dept. of Biostatistics, UW Seattle) [2] S+T Salon | Online | Bioethics and Human Flourishing *Tue, Jan. 14, 2025, 2:30 pm ? 3:45 pm* Register for Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Salon Ethical, social, cultural, geographical, and critical perspectives on research and applications of genetics, neurotechnologies, precision medicine, and more. *Presenters:* From the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the School of Medicine: *Amy Hinterberger*, *Tim Brown*, *Sue Trinidad*; and from the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences:* Il? Ravichandran* Co-sponsored by the UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities in the School of Medicine and the UW Tech Policy Lab . S+T's Salons are among the initiative's Community Programs , which also include the First Monday STSS Reading Group. Salons are designed to recognize and honor live, arranged encounters as a meeting of the minds, to give greater visibility to the S+T network, and to cultivate intellectual conditions for deeper collaborations. -- So many wonderful events and convenings! The best part of my 2024 was getting to know all of you better, thanks for your curiosity. Here's to moving and shaking, Monika (A version of this is cross-posted with the Society + Technology at UW listserv, apologies for the duplications, but also, please do share with others who may be interested in these opportunities!) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Tue Jan 7 06:00:00 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Tue Jan 7 07:40:07 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Newly Published | Next in Conversations, Consent in the Age of AI, an interview with Angelina McMillin-Major Message-ID: Hi everyone, Happy Tuesday! There's a newly published episode in the S+T [Conversations] interview series with Angelina McMillan-Major, PhD, a computational linguist in the UW's Language Learning Center. We dig into the nuances of consent and personal data protection in the age of LLMs. At less than 2,000 words and with an odd reference to Pac-Man, the interview is brief enough to read while you wait for the bus. You'll also learn why McMillan-Major declined to have our conversation recorded. Go to the Interview Yours, Monika *Cross-posted with Society + Technology at UW listserv, apologies for the duplication, but also, please share widely. On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:00?AM Monika Sengul-Jones wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Is it too far into January to keep the out-of-office autoreply wishing you > a Happy New Year? Honestly, I'm still relishing the > reflective-intention-setting-novel-reading-hibernation-mode, with a side of > Almond Roca, but 2025 has other plans for me--and maybe you, too. > > *1) Happening Today at 10:30 am | First Monday STSS Reading Group* > We have a new time for the First Monday STSS Reading Group this quarter, > co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli from 10:30 am to > 11:20 am. Join us for a conversation about impact hosted by Dan Tibble > (Bioethics & Humanities). > > Guston, David H. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Impact" > Perspectives. Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2024 > https://issues.org/measuring-impact-guston/ > > Email mmjones@uw.edu to get the link to join! > > *2) Speakers and Event Details for the S+T Inaugural Convening this Friday > Announced--It's Not Too Late To Register!* > > The speaker line-up and event details for the Society + Technology at UW > Inaugural Convening this Friday, Jan. 10 from 9 am to 12:30 pm at the > Center for Urban Horticulture have been announced. Get the details here. > > > The event marks the launch of the new initiative and will begin with > remarks from President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio, as Society > + Technology at UW is an outgrowth of the 2021-22 President and Provost > Task Force on Technology and Society. The event will feature several > affiliated researchers involved in STSS, including Leah Ceccarelli, > director of the STSS Graduate Certificate Program and a member of the S+T > leadership team, as well as Amy Hinterberger, Chair of the Department of > Bioethics and Humanities in the School of Medicine. > > The kick-off will be a special opportunity to meet colleagues in person at > the UW?s Center for Urban Horticulture on Union Bay, approximately 1.1 > miles east of the UW Seattle campus, and includes breakfast and a light > fare reception. > > The event is co-sponsored by the Tech Policy Lab with support from the > Office of the Provost. > > It?s free to attend, however registration is required. Learn more and > register. > > *3) New Salon Series Launches Next Week with First Events on Genetics and > Bioethics, from STS Perspectives* > > This is exciting. This January 2025, Society + Technology at UW is > launching an online Salon Series. The first two conversations, taking > place on January 13 and 14, will prominently feature scholars from our UW > STSS community at UW Tacoma, UW Bothell, UW Seattle, and the School of > Medicine. These sessions will be intimate, emergent discussions about > genetics and bioethics, drawing on concepts from STS. > [1] S+T Salon | Online | Genetic Technologies, Technologies of Genetics > > *Mon, Jan. 13, 2025, 12:30 pm ? 1:45 pm* > > Register for Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 Salon > > > Perspectives on technologies of genetics, including biostatistics, risk > analysis, and more, from anthropological, cultural, and philosophical > schools of thought. > > *Presenters:* *Christian Anderson* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Lisa Hoffman* (Urban > Studies, UW Tacoma), *Shannon Cram* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Malia Fullerton* (Dept. > of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine), *Sarah Nelson* (Genetic > Analysis Center, Dept. of Biostatistics, UW Seattle) > [2] S+T Salon | Online | Bioethics and Human Flourishing > > *Tue, Jan. 14, 2025, 2:30 pm ? 3:45 pm* > > Register for Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Salon > > > Ethical, social, cultural, geographical, and critical perspectives on > research and applications of genetics, neurotechnologies, precision > medicine, and more. > > *Presenters:* From the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the > School of Medicine: *Amy Hinterberger*, *Tim Brown*, *Sue Trinidad*; and > from the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences:* Il? > Ravichandran* > > Co-sponsored by the UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities in the > School of Medicine and the UW Tech > Policy Lab . > > S+T's Salons are among the initiative's Community Programs > , > which also include the First Monday STSS Reading Group. Salons are designed > to recognize and honor live, arranged encounters as a meeting of the > minds, to give greater visibility to the S+T network, and to cultivate > intellectual conditions for deeper collaborations. > -- > > So many wonderful events and convenings! The best part of my 2024 was > getting to know all of you better, thanks for your curiosity. > > Here's to moving and shaking, > Monika > > (A version of this is cross-posted with the Society + Technology at UW > listserv, apologies for the duplications, but also, please do share with > others who may be interested in these opportunities!) > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Tue Jan 7 10:36:18 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Tue Jan 7 11:20:07 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Correction | Newly Published | Next in Conversations, Consent in the Age of AI, an interview with Angelina McMillan-Major In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Correction The subject line for the announcement about the latest episode of *Conversations *, an interview with Angelina McMillan-Major, PhD, on consent and LLMs, misspelled her surname. It is *Angelina McMillan-Major *(not McMillin-Major). *** Yours, Monika On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 6:00?AM Monika Sengul-Jones wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Happy Tuesday! There's a newly published episode in the S+T > [Conversations] interview series with Angelina McMillan-Major, PhD, a > computational linguist in the UW's Language Learning Center. We dig into > the nuances of consent and personal data protection in the age of LLMs. At > less than 2,000 words and with an odd reference to Pac-Man, the interview > is brief enough to read while you wait for the bus. You'll also learn why > McMillan-Major declined to have our conversation recorded. > > Go to the Interview > > > Yours, > Monika > > *Cross-posted with Society + Technology at UW listserv, apologies for the > duplication, but also, please share widely. > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 6:00?AM Monika Sengul-Jones wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Is it too far into January to keep the out-of-office autoreply wishing >> you a Happy New Year? Honestly, I'm still relishing the >> reflective-intention-setting-novel-reading-hibernation-mode, with a side of >> Almond Roca, but 2025 has other plans for me--and maybe you, too. >> >> *1) Happening Today at 10:30 am | First Monday STSS Reading Group* >> We have a new time for the First Monday STSS Reading Group this quarter, >> co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli from 10:30 am to >> 11:20 am. Join us for a conversation about impact hosted by Dan Tibble >> (Bioethics & Humanities). >> >> Guston, David H. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Impact" >> Perspectives. Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2024 >> https://issues.org/measuring-impact-guston/ >> >> Email mmjones@uw.edu to get the link to join! >> >> *2) Speakers and Event Details for the S+T Inaugural Convening this >> Friday Announced--It's Not Too Late To Register!* >> >> The speaker line-up and event details for the Society + Technology at UW >> Inaugural Convening this Friday, Jan. 10 from 9 am to 12:30 pm at the >> Center for Urban Horticulture have been announced. Get the details here. >> >> >> The event marks the launch of the new initiative and will begin with >> remarks from President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio, as Society >> + Technology at UW is an outgrowth of the 2021-22 President and Provost >> Task Force on Technology and Society. The event will feature several >> affiliated researchers involved in STSS, including Leah Ceccarelli, >> director of the STSS Graduate Certificate Program and a member of the S+T >> leadership team, as well as Amy Hinterberger, Chair of the Department of >> Bioethics and Humanities in the School of Medicine. >> >> The kick-off will be a special opportunity to meet colleagues in person >> at the UW?s Center for Urban Horticulture on Union Bay, approximately 1.1 >> miles east of the UW Seattle campus, and includes breakfast and a light >> fare reception. >> >> The event is co-sponsored by the Tech Policy Lab with support from the >> Office of the Provost. >> >> It?s free to attend, however registration is required. Learn more and >> register. >> >> *3) New Salon Series Launches Next Week with First Events on Genetics and >> Bioethics, from STS Perspectives* >> >> This is exciting. This January 2025, Society + Technology at UW is >> launching an online Salon Series. The first two conversations, taking >> place on January 13 and 14, will prominently feature scholars from our UW >> STSS community at UW Tacoma, UW Bothell, UW Seattle, and the School of >> Medicine. These sessions will be intimate, emergent discussions about >> genetics and bioethics, drawing on concepts from STS. >> [1] S+T Salon | Online | Genetic Technologies, Technologies of Genetics >> >> *Mon, Jan. 13, 2025, 12:30 pm ? 1:45 pm* >> >> Register for Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 Salon >> >> >> Perspectives on technologies of genetics, including biostatistics, risk >> analysis, and more, from anthropological, cultural, and philosophical >> schools of thought. >> >> *Presenters:* *Christian Anderson* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Lisa Hoffman* (Urban >> Studies, UW Tacoma), *Shannon Cram* (IAS, UW Bothell), *Malia Fullerton* (Dept. >> of Bioethics & Humanities, School of Medicine), *Sarah Nelson* (Genetic >> Analysis Center, Dept. of Biostatistics, UW Seattle) >> [2] S+T Salon | Online | Bioethics and Human Flourishing >> >> *Tue, Jan. 14, 2025, 2:30 pm ? 3:45 pm* >> >> Register for Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Salon >> >> >> Ethical, social, cultural, geographical, and critical perspectives on >> research and applications of genetics, neurotechnologies, precision >> medicine, and more. >> >> *Presenters:* From the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the >> School of Medicine: *Amy Hinterberger*, *Tim Brown*, *Sue Trinidad*; and >> from the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences:* Il? >> Ravichandran* >> >> Co-sponsored by the UW Department of Bioethics and Humanities in the >> School of Medicine and the UW >> Tech Policy Lab . >> >> S+T's Salons are among the initiative's Community Programs >> , >> which also include the First Monday STSS Reading Group. 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Robinson?s monumental work Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition in 1983. In it, Robinson challenges the framing often present in Western critical theory wherein capitalism is seen as a departure from feudalism. Instead, his theory of racial capitalism invites us to see capitalism as a configuration of world order that requires racialized forms of control and domination including imperialism, slavery, and genocide as a precondition. Previous discourse in STS has considered what new insights the field can gain from Black studies, critical race and ethnic studies, Marxist, and other critical approaches. We are interested in deepening existing engagements to attend to the ways STS can benefit from dialogue with theories of racial capitalism. The following questions are meant to offer a starting point: - How can STS approaches be expanded through an analytical lens that views capitalism as being co-constructed with race, racism, and racialism? - How can STS learn from insights of racial capitalism including but not limited to difference, racialized labor hierarchies and wage scales, racialized regimes of property? - What are, if any, the disciplinary limitations and knowledge politics in STS that potentially preclude it from meaningfully engaging with theories of racial capitalism? We welcome contributions from community researchers, academics, independent scholars, and others with similar commitments to interrogating and expanding ways of researching how science and technology are tied up with logics of capital, race and racialism, and empire. In this panel we seek to convene scholars and practitioners across a variety of disciplines and knowledge-making practices in a conversation on expanding the repertoire of approaches to studying science and technology. This conversation will be moderated by scholars who work across disciplines of geography, anthropology, feminist studies, and human-computer interaction. Anoolia Gakhokidze, University of Washington annygakhokidze@gmail.com (primary contact) Diego Martinez-Lugo, University of Washington diegoml@uw.edu Sucheta Ghoshal, University of Washington sghoshal@uw.edu (discussant) Erin McElroy, University of Washington erinmcel@uw.edu (discussant) This panel is intended to be in-person. The deadline for abstract submissions is January 31st, 2025. Thank you, -Anoolia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Fri Jan 24 11:04:00 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Fri Jan 24 12:10:43 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Happening today, AI Roundtable hosted by UW Senate | Reminder, 4S submission deadline is Jan. 31 Message-ID: Hey everyone, While I expected?perhaps you did too?that 2025 would bring a range of changes and emotions, I still find myself startled by the pace of January. To cope with feeling a sense of both urgency and anxiety, I?ve personally tried to focus on what lies within my circle of control. Sometimes, that's the ability to pause with poetry.[1] Other times, like now, it's focusing on ways to support the intellectual community at UW. To that end, I?m writing to remind you about two things. First, a roundtable discussion, *Understanding AI Concerns*, happening today, *January 24, 2025, online, from 3 PM to 5 PM*. UW Faculty Senate Chair Louisa MacKenzie (Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas) has shared the invitation and Zoom link below. Second, a reminder: submit abstracts by Friday, Jan 31 for 4S in Seattle . If you haven?t yet, write and submit your abstract to participate in 4S, the 2025 conference will be in Seattle, WA at the Sheraton Grand Hotel on September 3-6, 2025. The deadline for submitting abstracts to open panels, closed panels, meet-ups, Making & Doing, and more, is January 31, 2025. According to the organizers, the 4S 2025 meeting will primarily be in person, but with a hybrid set-up to enable online participation. -- Yours, Monika [1] In case you'd appreciate a poem today, here's one of my favorites, Rumi's The Guest House . *A version of this was cross-posted with Society + Technology at UW 's listserv* >>> Understanding AI Concerns | Roundtable | Via Louisa Mackenzie (they/she); Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas, UW Seattle; Chair, Faculty Senate, University of Washington Dear Colleagues, Please join us on January 24th from 3-5pm for a Round Table on Understanding AI Concerns via Zoom . This event will feature opening remarks from the Chair of the Faculty Senate, followed by a moderated panel discussion. Panelists include UW faculty experts on AI and/in society, a student representative, and AI Task Force representatives, who will share their insights on impacts and challenges as the UW makes decisions on AI integration. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions in real time, and can also submit anonymous questions/comments using Slido , before or during the event. Don't miss this chance to engage in meaningful discussions about AI implementation strategies at UW! Zoom instructions: Phone Dial: +1.408.638.0968 (US Toll) or +1.646.558.8656 (US Toll) You will be prompted to enter the meeting ID: 560 829 4138 --------------------------------------------------- University of Washington Faculty Senate Gerberding Hall Box 351271 1704 Grant Lane, Gerberding 36, Seattle, WA 98195-1271 206.685.2703 / senate@uw.edu http://www.washington.edu/faculty/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Thu Jan 30 16:22:02 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Leah M Ceccarelli via Ssnet_list) Date: Thu Jan 30 16:22:07 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] a course that might be of interest Message-ID: See below for a summer course that might be of interest to students who study STS. The course is ENGL 488 and GH 490/590, 10 credits total, taught by Josephine Walwema and Amy Hagopian. Program Description Uganda's capital city, Kampala recently suffered a catastrophic disaster when the build-up of garbage collapsed, burying hundreds of homes constructed on the edge of the site and killing scores of individuals, many of whom were still in their sleep. This landfill, which was established with funding from the World Bank in 1996, was envisaged to last 2010. Given that this disaster occurred in 2024, the site?s sustainability had clearly exceeded its limits. Moreover, allocating large tracts of land to garbage disposal not only encroaches on otherwise fertile farmland in Uganda, but it also poses risk to water and air quality. The site's location offers students in this program the opportunity to study first hand the human and environmental effects of poor waste management. Students get the opportunity to grapple with fallout from garbage that cannot be recycled nor reused as a public health issue. Given the rapid growth of waste quantities worldwide, proper and sustainable management of garbage disposal in cities and municipalities is critical for the future of humanity. This study might help students think critically about the place of garbage in urban planning and public health and to offer strategies for mitigating adverse health and socioeconomic impacts essential for ecological conservation. Students will be accommodated within the outskirts of the city. They will live and interact with the host community in a homelike environment, which means that during the course of their stay, they too will generate waste. They will be prompted to think critically about this wicked problem and to perhaps draw lessons for the United States, which itself has not found a sustainable solution to waste management. Interested UW students are eligible to compete for a scholarship for the study abroad experience. The UW Study Abroad Scholarship does not require an additional application: https://www.washington.edu/studyabroad/students/resources/finances/scholarships/ Additional scholarships are listed on that page and we also have a lot of information about using financial aid for study abroad programs on our website:https://www.washington.edu/studyabroad/students/resources/finances/financial-aid/ There is no commitment in submitting an application, so you might as well submit it by Friday. We will continue to accept applications after that, but the scholarship opportunity vanishes. Go to application Don?t worry about getting a recommendation by Friday, not necessary. Just list who you will ask. There will be one more information session scheduled February 12 in Rosling room 112 at noon, or on zoom:https://washington.zoom.us/j/3285799782 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: