Race & Technology, A Research Lecture Series
May 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022

Race and Technology: A Research Lecture Series

10:00 AM–11:00 AM PT

Location: Virtual

Videos

Dr. Lisa Nakamura giving a talk on Women of Color and the Digital Labor of Repair for Microsoft Research Duration   01:02:31

September 22, 2021

Speakers : Dr. Lisa Nakamura

Affiliation : Director of the Digital Studies Institute and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan

Dr. Ruha Benjamin giving a talk on The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society Duration   01:00:50

August 18, 2021

Speakers : Dr. Ruha Benjamin

Affiliation : Professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab

Dr. Charlton McIlwain giving a talk on Computing Technology as Racial Infrastructure: A History of the Present & Blueprint for Black Future(s) for Microsoft Research Duration   01:07:11

July 28, 2021

Speakers : Dr. Charlton McIlwain

Affiliation : Vice Provost, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU

Dr. Kim TallBear giving a talk on The Vanishing Indian Speaks Back: Race, Genomics, and Indigenous Rights for Microsoft Research Duration   01:00:00

June 30, 2021

Speakers : Dr. Kim TallBear

Affiliation : Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment., Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

Dr. Sareeta Amrute giving a talk on Racist Tropes and Labor Discipline: How Tech Inherits and Reproduces Global Imaginaries of Race and Work for Microsoft Research Duration   58:45

May 26, 2021

Speakers : Dr. Sareeta Amrute

Affiliation : Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and Director of Research at the Data & Society Research Institute