[Ssnet_list] Oct. 23, 2025 Salon | Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy — 6 PM

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

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Hey everyone,

It's raincoat season, and there are several S+T at UW salons scheduled for
this time of year. Consider splashing your way to the Seattle campus for an
evening, in-person salon on

Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy

on

Thurs., Oct. 23, 2025 | 6:00 PM

at

Toni C. Rembe Appellate Courtroom, Room 133
UW School of Law | 4293 Memorial Way Northeast, Seattle, WA 98195

with

*Ryan Calo* (Law), *Leah Ceccarelli *(Communication), and *Katharina
Reinecke* (Computer Science)

in conversation about tech policy, culture, and controversies in
technoscience.

Register
<https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=06s3vvcrbjnx5vxe2uxpt9dcut900a8vd8xjthet56at8cuwkjx7>

Learn more:
https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/2025/09/16/book-salon-on-tech-policy-culture-shock-and-controversy-october-23-2025-6-p-m/

This salon will explore timely questions at the intersection of technology
and society: How does culture shape the technologies we use? What do
scientific controversies reveal about our relationship to technoscience?
How is expertise encoded into technical systems, and with what
consequences? What are the implications for law and policy? Moderated by
Monika Sengul-Jones

The discussion will revolve around the themes of three new books:

Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach by Ryan Calo (Oxford University
Press, publication date: December 23, 2025)

Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy by Leah
Ceccarelli and Pamela Pietrucci (Palgrave Macmillan, publication date:
September 1, 2025)

Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters by
Katharina Reinecke (Princeton University Press, publication date: August 5,
2025)

Speakers

Ryan Calo is Ryan Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor
at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a founding co-director
of the UW Tech Policy Lab and a co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed
Public. Professor Calo holds a joint appointment at the Information School
and an adjunct appointment at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science
and Engineering.

Leah Ceccarelli is a professor of Communication at the University of
Washington. She is a rhetorical critic and theorist whose research focuses
on the rhetoric of science. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
in American Public Address, Rhetorical Criticism, and the Rhetoric of
Science. Ceccarelli also directs the UW Science, Technology, and Society
Studies Graduate Certificate Program.


Katharina Reinecke is a professor and Associate Director of Research and
Communication in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
at the University of Washington, where she directs the Wildlab and the
Center for Globally Beneficial AI — an interdisciplinary, cross-campus
initiative that aims to imagine and define the next generation of
personalized AI technologies for people around the world.

About the Salon Series

A S+T at UW Community Program, salons are a conversation series held
in-person or online, designed to elevate the S+T’s cross-campus and
cross-disciplinary perspectives on technologies. Each Salon is a one-hour
and fifteen-minute conversation between three to five affiliates from the
S+T network, with a moderator. The purpose is 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.

Hosted by Society + Technology at UW and co-sponsored UW Tech Policy Lab.

...

Hope to see you there, and that you are doing okay right now.

Yours,
Monika

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Society + Technology at UW
www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu
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