Social Science Seminar 2023-2024
Except where noted in bold in the list below, the Social Science Seminar is held on Mondays from 10:30am-12:00pm in Rubenstein Commons, Room 5. Attendees include Faculty, Members, and Visitors in the School of Social Science. Colleagues from across the campus community are welcome to attend, as are invited colleagues from other institutions.
Seminar Schedule
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2023 |
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September 26 |
Alondra Nelson |
Platform Society |
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October 2 |
Climate of Uncertainty |
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October 9 |
Revocability, Exception, Disqualification: |
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October 16 |
Theorizing, Locating & Analyzing Institutional Platform Power |
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October 23 |
Wendy Brown |
#No Cop City and Reparative Democracy |
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October 30 |
"Playing the Migrant" in Humanitarian Media Platforms |
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November 6 |
On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood |
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November 13 |
Lisa Nakamura |
The Queen of Myspace: Tila Tequila and Asian American Social Media Infrastructure |
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November 20 |
The State as Platform in Post-biometrics India |
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November 28 |
The Astors, Elite New York, and Historical Ethnography |
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December 4 |
Caribbean Polis: Recalling C.L.R. James on Decolonization, International Socialism, and the Good Life |
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December 11 |
Digital Freud: The refiguration of inequality, sociality, and personhood in clinical practice. |
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2024 |
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January 22 |
Christian Sandvig |
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January 29 |
Psychopolitics |
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February 5 |
The Algorithmic Underground: Optimization, Contestation, and Resistance in the Shadow of the Engine |
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February 12 |
Chemistry or Harassment? Relational (Mis)matches in Orientations Toward Work in Pornography Production |
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February 20 |
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February 26 |
The Good Bad Job?: How the Gig Economy Reconfigures Work |
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March 4 |
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March 11 |
Didier Fassin |
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March 18 |
The Humble Brick: Mosquito Control and the Incremental Home |
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April 1 |
Hot Spotting: Targeting Disparities in Heat and Health |
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April 8 |
Transatlantic Thought: Comparisons, Concatenations and Connections |
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April 15 |
Trusted Strangers: Domestic Work, Data & the Morals of Online Markets” |
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April 22 |
Torture Taxis and Speculative Futures in Captivity |
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April 29 |
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Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included elsewhere on this site. Please refer to the titles above for the topic of each talk.