[Ssnet_list] Two salons next week!

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

*Apologies for cross-posting!*

Hey everyone,

Society + Technology at UW is hosting two salons next week:

*Book Tea on Technologies and Insurgencies at Simpson Center, a
conversation between Olivia Banner and Nassim Parvin — October 21, 2025, 1
PM (Hybrid)*
https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/2025/10/01/book-tea/

*Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy, a conversation
with Ryan Calo, Leah Ceccarelli, and Katharina Reinecke — October 23, 2025,
6 PM (In-Person)*
https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/2025/09/16/book-salon-on-tech-policy-culture-shock-and-controversy-october-23-2025-6-p-m/

Both have significant tie-ins to and interdependencies with STS. For
instance, on Tuesday, Olivia Banner (CREATE, Disability Studies, UW
Seattle) will discuss her new book, Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric
Media Technologies (Duke) -- from what I've read so far, her work grapples
with the ways that technological innovations became solutions to crises of
scientific authority. She how the push back -- visions of care,
insurgencies -- emerged as cultural production by those experiencing mental
distress. This will be a conversation between Banner and Nassim Parvin
(Information, UW Seattle), co-editor of the new book Technocreep and the
Politics of Things Not Seen (Duke)

While on Thursday, Calo, Ceccarelli, and Reinecke will present the range of
perspectives in their respective new books, Law and Technology: A
Methodological Approach (Oxford), Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of
Public Controversy (Palgrave Macmillan) and Digital Culture Shock: Who
Creates Technology and Why This Matters (Princeton) answering to questions
about how technologies and expert authority are disorienting -- to
designers, engineers, scientists, users, and policy makers -- and ways to
reorient.

Please join us, and forward the invitations to your communities.

Yours,
Monika
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