<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-2724268090553902335gmail-docs-internal-guid-9fa24d5a-7fff-4449-b4b2-740a83e87cf2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Crossposted with Society + Technology at UW.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hey SSNET, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The sun is rising at 6 AM and setting after 8 PM, making it easier than ever to attend interesting S+T@UW-related events and programs of interest to the STSS/SSNET community. 

So, here are several that are happening in the next couple weeks: <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Wednesday<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">April 23, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">EDT<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (tomorrow!) <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">| <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Melanie Walsh (Information School, UW Seattle) is speaking at<a href="https://events.wm.edu/event/view/english/364410" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Reframing Resistance to AI</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, an online symposium. The program suggests the panelists will address long-standing tensions between disciplines and reframe resistance to AI in novel ways to foster cross-disciplinary solidarity and honor vital curiosity. It's free and online.<a href="https://go.wm.edu/lCxjcs" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Register</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(233,238,246);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:11pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Friday, April 25 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Shannon Cram (IAS, UW Bothell) is speaking on a panel for <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SCA Fridays<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> because she's a winner of the Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Congrats! It's free and online.<a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/LPCn1X7hQ1WTQnQeB218kQ#/registration" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Register</a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.

</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">

<font color="#000000"><b>Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT | Join our S+T@UW Mixer in Tacoma </b></font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">for STS In CRISIS. Crisis is a provocation, not a diagnosis. What does STS offer us in this moment? The mixer is free and in-person. Co-hosted by Matthew Weinstein and Monika Sengul-Jones.</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfX6QSaoGSfvy-tuwdidFVgt8JbazCpPwRoZxgEKuxIDRikXw/viewform" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Learn more and register.</span></a><u><br></u><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><u>

</u><b>Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT | </b></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">Erin McElroy (Geography, UW Seattle) is co-organizing, with the Simpson Center,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D181654208&eventid=181654208" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Political Software: Mapping Digital Worlds from Below</span></a>,<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">which promises to "question the interdependencies between digital infrastructures, software code, and emancipatory spatial futures." It's free and in-person at UW Seattle. </span><a href="https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D181654208&eventid=181654208" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Learn more</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Monday, May 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:25 PM | </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Kim Swenson (Teaching & Learning, UW Bothell) is the host of the next S+T@UW </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">First Monday STSS Reading Group, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">she’ll lead the group in discussion of a podcast episode around STS, higher thinking, and LLMs. Apropos topic. Free and online. Email <a href="mailto:mmjones@uw.edu" target="_blank">mmjones@uw.edu</a> to learn more and get the calendar invitation. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Friday, May 9, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> | Join host Yomi Braester (Cinema and Media Studies, UW Seattle), Mal Ahern (Cinema and Media Studies, UW Seattle), Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW Seattle), Yijun Li (Journalism and Information Communication, Huazhong University), Aditya Ramesh (History, UW Seattle), Daniela Rosner (HCDE, UW Seattle), and Diana Flores Ruiz (Cinema and Media Studies) for a conversation on representation. Representation is not a passive act, it’s a constructed practice. Learn what this does and means from experts engaged with STS and media/cinema studies theories. Free, in-person, no registration. Just show up to the HUB, Room 307. Open to the UW community. Lunch provided (while supplies last).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More events are featured on the Society + Technology at UW <a href="https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/calendar/" target="_blank">calendar</a>. 

Do you have a UW event you'd like to showcase on the calendar and/or this listserv? Share here! This is for all of you. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Looking forward to these conversations and the continued promise of sunshine.

</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Yours, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Monika </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Director of Strategy and Operations</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Society + Technology at UW</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hosted in the Tech Policy Lab</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><a href="http://www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></span></div>

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</div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her | they/them)<br>| Director of Strategy & Operations<br>Society <a>+</a> Technology at University of Washington</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000">Hosted by the Tech Policy Lab, UW Seattle</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu" target="_blank">www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu</a><br><br>| PT <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/monika-sengul-jones__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!j2mw3LU7gVKxJonuNxjleHZ5BjiQ2F1v-I--n1kofPj79x9eBE6g22HXYjAw5WjQVHni0fDHEO_j7JrzdxI$" target="_blank">Lecturer</a></font></p><div><font face="arial" color="#000000">School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS)</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial">UW Bothell<br></font><br><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations.</span></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>