• Canadian Science Policy Conference 2020

    By zoom

    Due to the unprecedented circumstances generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 12th Canadian Science Policy Conference, CSPC 2020, will be held completely online! The conference will be held virtually through the week of November 16th - 20th, 2020. In the time of social distancing and with abundance of caution, we are excited to bring this year’s […]

  • Reading Group – Black and Indigenous Bodies

    Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance If you are interested in joining the reading group, contact Dr. Karrmen Crey at kcrey@sfu.ca with a very brief (one or two sentence) explanation of why you would like to join the group by Friday, September 25th. Participants must be able to attend all meetings. You will receive an email […]

  • UC Irvine: Michael and Stacy Koehn Public Lecture in Critical Theory

    Authenticating Figures: Algorithms and the New Politics of Recognition Originally planned for March 2020, but canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak, UCI Critical Theory is proud to now present this event virtually.  What does recognition mean in an era of pervasive data capture and automatic pattern detection?  Tracing the historical move from “pattern discrimination” to […]

  • Reading Group – Black and Indigenous Bodies

    By zoom

    Black and Indigenous Bodies: Resistance and Surveillance Led by Karrmen Crey and Adjua Akinwumi. If you are interested in joining the reading group, contact Dr. Karrmen Crey at kcrey@sfu.ca with a very brief (one or […]

  • Meeting Street Podcast: Conversations in the Humanities

    Online

    Wendy is being interviewed for the Meeting Street Podcast, Two episodes have been published thus far and the podcast presents a wonderful opportunity for Wendy to talk about the work […]

  • Wendy presides on panel at MLA Convention 2021

    Online

    Panel 106 - Literary Intelligence, Artificial Learning: Language, Media, and Machines AI is changing the way we inhabit the world, but we cannot understand how without exploring the intersection of […]

  • Wendy speaks on panel at MLA Convention 2021

    Panel 294 - Data Privacy Now: A Public Conversation about Private Information During the COVID-19 global pandemic, institutions have turned to technology-driven solutions to alleviate public health risk. From the classroom […]

  • Cierra Robson talks to the Institute

    By zoom

    Cierra Robson is the Associate Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab at Princeton University where she guides research teams in partnership with community organizations to explore how […]

  • Christine Tomlinson talks to the Institute

    By zoom

    Christine Tomlinson is a social science lecturer and researcher at the University of California, Irvine and a research assistant with the Digital Democracies Institute. Christine’s work is primarily focused on […]