Calendar

SKAT/ SOCIOLOGY of ALGORITHMS WORKSHOPS Fall 2024 Calendar 

The Science, Knowledge and Technology and Sociology of Algorithms Workshops meet on Mondays from 1:00 to 2:00 pm at the Sociology Department in Columbia’s Knox Hall. We will be meeting in-person unless otherwise noted, with a hybrid participation option via Zoom. Please see our homepage for the most up-to-date information. To receive the paper (and the Zoom link) circulated the week prior to each meeting, please email [email protected] or [email protected] for SKAT and [email protected] or [email protected] for the Sociology of Algorithms Workshop.

September 9th (Zoom) – Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine): Industrial Distraction.

September 16th– Nahoko Kameo (NYU): It’s hard to say good-bye: Humanoid morality and the problem of closing in human-robot interaction

September 23rd [Sociology of Algorithms] – Shazeda Ahmed (UCLA): The Work of ‘Aligning’ Artificial Intelligence

September 30th – Aviad Raz (Ben Gurion): Who moved my CT scan? Redistribution of Expert Workflow Following the Assimilation of AI in Stroke Care.

October 7th – Madisson Whitman and Jordan Brensinger (University of Toronto, Columbia): The Implications of Digital Platform Mediation for Qualitative Research.

October 14th – Mira Vale (University of Michigan): Data Values: Behavioral Data and the New Epistemology of Psychiatry.

October 21st – Anna Skarpelis (CUNY): When Whiteness Fails: Mixed-Race Germans and Conflicting Ontologies of Race in Nazi Germany (1933-1945)

October 28th (Zoom) – Leopold Ringel (Uni Bielefeld): Evaluative Expertise in the Making: Understanding the Proliferation, Power, and Resilience of Rankings.

November 11th – Nitsan Chorev (Brown University): The political economy of surveillance-for-hire: Israel’s military-industrial complex and the making of a private cyber-attack market.

November 18th (Book Talk) – Georg Rilinger (MIT): Failure by Design – The California Energy Crisis and the Limits of Market Planning.

November 25th – Liza Sheremet (Columbia): Beyond Ethos: Reconstructing Morality of Scientists.

December 2nd – Gabriella Coleman (Harvard): The Hack and Leak and the Rise of a New Hacktivist Tactic.

December 9th [Sociology of Algorithms] – Simone Zhang (NYU):  Social Mechanisms of Performative Prediction.