Fwd: "Just Code" A CBI Online Symposium (Oct. 23/24; free, prior registration required, it will close)
Matt Bishop
Just Code Symposium Schedule
Friday, Oct 23rd (All times Central Time Zone-Minneapolis)
9:30 to 9:40 am
Brief Opening Remark and Acknowledging Sponsors/Co-Sponsors
Jeffrey Yost
9:40 to 11:20 am
Keynote Session I: Coding Power
Chair: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) and History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Mar Hicks, Lewis College of Human Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology. “Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and Indian Technological Resistance, 1955-1975.”
Stephanie A. Dick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. “NYSIIS, and the Introduction of Modern Digital Computing to Domestic Policing.”
11:30 am to 12:45 pm
Reinvention and Resistance
Chair: Honghong Tinn, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Colette Perold, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. “Modern Computing and Counterinsurgency in 1960s Brazil.”
Hector Beltran, Department of Anthropology, MIT. “Code Work: Thinking with the System in México.”
Shreeharsh Kelkar, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley. “Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: Technology Reformers and the Platformization of Institutions.”
12:45 pm to 1:30 pm - Lunch Break
1:30 to 2:20 pm
Labor and Politics
Chair: Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Devika Narayan, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota. “Between the Cloud and a Hard Place: Asset-Light Computing and the New World of Off-Shore Labor.”
Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology. “US Labor Unions, Automation, and Technical Unemployment: Fighting for Whose Justice?”
Gerardo Con Diaz, Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis, "Prometheus's Patents: Owning Medical Algorithms in the 21st Century.”
2:25 to 3:40 pm
Education, Work, and Culture
Chair: Sally Kohlstedt, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota
Kate Miltner, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh. “Everyone Can Code? (Re)producing Inequalities at an American Coding Academy.”
Elizabeth Semler, HSTM, UMN. “Employee Handbooks, Company Calendars, and In/Equality at Midwest Computing Companies.”
Jeffrey R. Yost, Charles Babbage Institute and HSTM, University of Minnesota. “Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust."
3:50 to 5:15 pm
Keynote Session II: Government and Corporate Surveillance in Comparative Economic Contexts
Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis and Jeffrey R. Yost, CBI and HSTM, University of Minnesota
Ya-Wen Lei, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. “Delivering Discontent: Platform Architecture, Labor Control, and Contention in China.”
Josh Lauer, College of Liberal Arts, University of New Hampshire & Professor Ken Lipartito, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University. “Infrastructures of Extraction: Surveillance Technologies in the Modern Economy.
Saturday, Oct. 24th (All times Central)
Brief Day Two Welcome, Jeffrey Yost
9:30 to 11:00 am
Keynote Session III: Social and Environmental Control Through Computers
Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis
Jennifer Alexander, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota. “The Mask of Sanity: Manipulation and Psychopathology at the Human-Computer Interface.”
Theo Dryer, AI Now Institute at New York University, AI Now Institute at New York University. “Streams of Data, Streams of Water: Encoding Water Policy and Environmental Racism.”
11:10 am to 12:30 pm
Law and Policy
Chair: Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University
Shun-Ling Chen, Institute Jurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica. “The Politics of Openness in the Age of the Cloud and AI.”
Hamid Ekbia, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University. “Algorithmic Collusion: Legal Challenges and Social Risks.”
12:40 to 1:30 - Lunch Break
1:30 to 2:45 pm
Interfaces and Infrastructures
Chair: Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University. “Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship.”
Chigusa Kita, Department of Informatics, Kyoto University. “Character Codes and Local Writing Cultures.”
Andoni Ibarra, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU & Dr. Raúl Tabarés Gutiérrez, Investigator, TECNALIA Research & Innovation. “Conversational Interfaces: Epistemic Opacity and the Disruptive Construction of Digital Power.”