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
2023 | ||
September 26 | Alondra Nelson | Platform Society |
October 2 | Climate of Uncertainty | |
October 9 | Revocability, Exception, Disqualification: | |
October 16 | Theorizing, Locating & Analyzing Institutional Platform Power | |
October 23 | Wendy Brown | #No Cop City and Reparative Democracy |
October 30 | "Playing the Migrant" in Humanitarian Media Platforms | |
November 6 | On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood | |
November 13 | Lisa Nakamura | The Queen of Myspace: Tila Tequila and Asian American Social Media Infrastructure |
November 20 | The State as Platform in Post-biometrics India | |
November 28 | The Astors, Elite New York, and Historical Ethnography | |
December 4 | Caribbean Polis: Recalling C.L.R. James on Decolonization, International Socialism, and the Good Life | |
December 11 | Digital Freud: The refiguration of inequality, sociality, and personhood in clinical practice. | |
2024 | ||
January 22 | Christian Sandvig | Is Machine Learning a New Style of Ignorance? Promiscuous Association and Optimization in Media Platforms and Beyond |
January 29 | Psychopolitics | |
February 5 | Algorithmic Underground | |
February 12 | Chemistry or Harassment? Relational (Mis)matches in Orientations Toward Work in Pornography Production | |
February 20 | "Divine Disobedience" and the Reimagination of Morality | |
February 26 | The "Good Bad" Job: How the Gig Economy Makes Work Sticky | |
March 4 | The Return of the Interventions State | |
March 11 | Didier Fassin | Ever-Recommencing Exile. Ethnography and Geopolitics |
March 18 | The Humble Brick: Mosquito Vectors, Designing with Air and the Incremental Home | |
April 1 | Spotting Crime, Health, Heat: Operational Banalities of Administrative Surveillance | |
April 8 | Transatlantic Thought: Colonialism, Concatenations, Misplacements | |
April 15 | Trusted Strangers: Domestic Work, Data & the Morals of Online Markets | |
April 22 | Captivity in the Forever (and Foregone) War | |
April 29 | Third Party: Amazon's Marketplace and the Making of Platform Worlds | |
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.