[Ssnet_list] Happening today and tomorrow | Personal robots and Emily Bender's Katz

[Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list]

Hey everyone,

Did you join the 127 million viewers to watch the Seattle Seahawks win the
Super Bowl yesterday? 💚💙 Admittedly, I'm not much of a football fan, but
this is a big media event and cause for PNW regional celebration! (Did you
hear about the parade on Wednesday morning?!) I'd love to invite you to
share your thoughts on the halftime show, the drones, the politics of the
halftime show, the hidden people, and the costly commercials -- all the
tech involved! -- soon?!

To that, S+T at UW is pleased to cross-promote the next brewery
conversation in the Signals & Society series, which is *happening
tonight.* Personal
Robots — Is It Finally Time? on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 5:30 PM at
Lonely Siren (1501 Pike Pl, Level 2, #200, Seattle, WA 98101). Add
to Calendar.
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Can't make out tonight? Happening tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at
6:30 PM at UW Kane Hall 210 is our very own Emily M. Bender (Linguistics,
UW Seattle) delivering the Katz Distinguished Lecture, "Resisting
Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities." This is
not to be missed! Free and open to the public. Add to Calendar.
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And, more to come!

Yours,
Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD
Society + Technology at UW

PS. Apologies for cross-posting

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM Monika Sengul-Jones <mmjones at uw.edu> wrote:


> Hey everyone,

>

> *Welcome, new members, to the Society + Technology at UW listserv. And my

> apologies for cross-posting.*

>

> Society + Technology at UW is pleased to promote the next public evening

> event in the Signals & Society series, *Personal Robots — Is It Finally

> Time?* on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 5:30 PM at Lonely Siren (1501 Pike

> Pl, Level 2, #200, Seattle, WA 98101). Add to calendar.

> <https://eventactions.com/eventactions/sea_society#/actions/atmc/mu40dh6txhubxnksdwx9k2z96u>

>

>

> This will be a conversation with Ryan Calo (Law & Information, UW

> Seattle) and Maya Cakmak (Computer Science, UW Seattle) on what’s at

> stake when robots are the gatekeepers to our intimate routines and

> confidential secrets.

>

> Free and open to the public. No registration required.

> Add to calendar.

> <https://eventactions.com/eventactions/sea_society#/actions/atmc/mu40dh6txhubxnksdwx9k2z96u>

>

> See you there?

>

> Yours,

> Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD

> www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu

>

>

> PS. For those of you who are new to S+T at UW, we host a monthly online

> science, technology, and society studies reading group, First Monday STSS.

> The next meeting is 2/2 at 12:30 and the invitations have been sent. We're

> reading selections of Paul Feyerabend's Against Method (1975), chosen by

> our host Dan Tibbles (Bioethics & Humanities, UW School of Medicine). Would

> you like to join? Email mmjones at uw.edu to be added to the list and

> receive regular invitations.

>

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