[Ssnet_list] Happening this week | Salons | Insurgencies | Tech Policy, Culture Shock and Controversy

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Hey everyone,

We have two public salons this week, dovetailed around books!

*Tomorrow **—** Book Tea on Technologies and Insurgencies
<https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/2025/10/01/book-tea/> —
October 21, 2025, at 1 PM* at the Simpson Center (hybrid!) with Olivia
Banner (CREATE, UW Seattle) and Nassim Parvin (Information, UW Seattle). Learn
more and register
<https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gb646davnnsuwnwenxxg4h68nghcpdy4f9xh5cxccm7jsdrxnent>

*Thursday **—** Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy
<https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/2025/09/16/book-salon-on-tech-policy-culture-shock-and-controversy-october-23-2025-6-p-m/>
— October 23, 2025, 6 PM* at the School of Law, Room 133 with Ryan Calo
(Law, UW Seattle), Leah Ceccarelli (Communication, UW Seattle), and
Katharina Reinecke (Computer Science, UW Seattle). Learn more and register
<https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=06s3vvcrbjnx5vxe2uxpt9dcut900a8vd8xjthet56at8cuwkjx7>


If you’re new to this list: Society + Technology at UW hosts a monthly
online Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) reading group for
the UW tri-campus community, *First Monday
<https://depts.washington.edu/stsst/first-monday/>. *The next meeting is
Nov. 3, 2025, 12:30–1:25 PM, hosted by Kelly Olenyik (HCDE, UW Seattle).
We’ll be reading “‘We Don’t Seem to Live on the Same Planet’: A Fictional
Planetarium” by Bruno Latour. If you’d like to join First Monday, please
email me to be added to the list and receive a calendar invitation.

Yours,
Monika



On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM Monika Sengul-Jones <mmjones at uw.edu> wrote:


> Hey everyone, a reminder that we're having a hybrid Book Tea next week at

> the Simpson Center at 1 PM with Olivia Banner (CREATE, Disability Studies,

> UW Seattle) and Nassim Parvin (Information, UW Seattle). Details and

> registration link below. Looking forward to seeing you there!

>

> Yours,

> Monika

>

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM Monika Sengul-Jones <mmjones at uw.edu> wrote:

>

>>

>> *Apologies for cross-posting!*

>>

>> Hey everyone,

>>

>> You're invited to the next S+T at UW salon

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

>> Book Tea with Olivia Banner (CREATE and Disability Studies Program, UW

>> Seattle) and Nassim Parvin (Information School, UW Seattle) about media

>> technologies, insurgencies, and alternative visions of care, held on the

>> publication day of Banner’s new book, *Crip Screens: Countering

>> Psychiatric Media Technologies* (Duke University Press).

>> When

>>

>> Tuesday, October 21, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:15 PM

>> Where

>>

>> Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202

>> 4109 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195

>>

>> This event is hybrid! Register now for the Zoom link and/or to attend in

>> person.

>> Register

>> <https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gb646davnnsuwnwenxxg4h68nghcpdy4f9xh5cxccm7jsdrxnent>

>>

>>

>> *About*

>> Drawing on previously ignored and effaced cultural texts from the 1960s

>> and 1970s, *Crip Screens *foregrounds the insurgent practices of and

>> media by women and communities of color that contested psychiatric

>> discourses and their mediated and technological applications. Banner and

>> Parvin, co-editor of the new book *Technocreep and the Politics of

>> Things Unseen*, will discuss how resistances and alternatives to

>> technologies of racialized, gendered, and colonial oppression materialize. Banner

>> will also discuss the tensions of publishing her book in 2025.

>>

>>

>> <https://eventactions.com/eareg.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=gb646davnnsuwnwenxxg4h68nghcpdy4f9xh5cxccm7jsdrxnent>

>> SpeakersOlivia Banner is Director of Strategy and Operations at the

>> Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences

>> (CREATE) at UW. Banner is also the author of *Communicative

>> Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health

>> Humanities* and co-editor of *Teaching Health Humanities*. Prior to

>> joining UW, Banner was Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies at The

>> University of Texas at Dallas. Her scholarship has appeared in *Catalyst*

>> , *Disability Studies Quarterly*, *Literature and Medicine*, *Signs*,

>> and edited collections.

>>

>>

>> Nassim Parvin is a Professor at the UW Information School, where she

>> serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access &

>> Sovereignty (IDEAS). She co-edited *Technocreep and the Politics of

>> Unseen*, which was published by Duke University Press in 2025. Parvin’s

>> interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic

>> scholarship and design-based inquiry. Her scholarship is published across

>> disciplinary venues in design, Human-Computer Interaction, Science and

>> Technology Studies, and Philosophy.

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> About the Salon Series

>>

>> A S+T at UW Community Program

>> <https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/community-programs/>,

>> 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, co-sponsored by CREATE, The Simpson

>> Center, and the UW Tech Policy Lab

>>

>>

>>

>>

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