SKAT/ SOCIOLOGY of ALGORITHMS WORKSHOPS Spring2024 CalendarThe SKAT and Sociology of Algorithms Workshops meet Mondays from 1:00 to 2:00 pm. The workshop follows a hybrid format; in-person meetings take place on campus. To receive the paper (and the Zoom link) circulated the week prior to each meeting, ask to be added to the mailing list or email [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] for access to individual sessions.
January 16th – Stephen Turner (University of South Florida): Epistemic coercion
January 29th (12:30pm -2pm, room 509) – Julien Larregue (Université Laval): Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime
February 5th – Adam Leeds (Columbia University): Red Spetsy in the People’s Household: Rationalizing the Economic Mechanism
February 14th (Wednesday)– Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh): Battling for your Phone
February 19th [Sociology of Algorithms]– Renzhe Yu (Columbia University)
February 26th [Sociology of Algorithms]– Carl Vondrick (Columbia University): Multimodal Learning from Pixels to People
March 4th – Zoltan Nicolas Dujisin (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
March 18th (room 207) – Eli Zaretsky (The New School)
March 25th – Elgen Sauerborn (The Free University of Berlin): Science, Society, and Sentiment. The Emotional Fabric of Trust in Scientific Knowledge and Expertise
April 1st – Théo Voldoire (Sciences Po): Bayesian Imputation of Revolving Doors
April 11th (Thursday, 12pm-1:30pm, room 207) [Sociology of Algorithms]– Karl Berglund (Uppsala University): Reading Audio Readers. Book Consumption in the Streaming Age
April 15th – Ankit Bhardwaj (New York University): Decarbonization’s Math Problems: The Climate Politics of Quantifying Emissions, Renewables, and Justice
April 24th (Wednesday, 12:30pm -2pm, room 207)– Gisèle Sapiro (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
April 29th – Sanjana Malhotra (Columbia University): Geotagging and the changing nature of work in the Indian bureaucracy
May 6th – Tristan Leperlier (CNRS): Why bother? Motivations of American translators
May 13th – Sarah Lageson (Rutgers University): Algorithmic Injustice in Action. An empirical examination of criminal record data and background screening