SKAT/ Sociology of Algorithms WorkshopsSpring 2026
January 26th (Zoom) – Elizaveta Sheremet (Columbia University): “Public Trust” as Moral Vocabulary of Science
February 2nd – Dan Hirshman (Cornell University): The Costs of Climate Change
February 9th (Zoom) – Zoltan Dujisin (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Building a Field of Counter-Disinformation Expertise: East-Central European Experts in the Globalization of the Disinformation Threat
February 16th – Barbara Kiviat (Columbia University): The Moral Economy of Using Real-Time Driving Data to Price Car Insurance
February 23rd (12:30pm – 2pm, room 509) – Yingyao Wang (University of Virginia): Seeing Like Many States: Economic Policy Paradigms and the Remaking of the Chinese State in the Reform Era
March 2nd – Jun Zhou (University of Michigan): Selling Live: Metrics Architecture and the Reorganization of Service Work in China
March 9th – Sawako Shinomiya & Yize Hu (Keio University): Humanities and Social Sciences in National Scientific Projects: Mental Health, Avatars, and the “ELSI” of Japan’s Moonshot Program
March 23rd – Joanna Kempner (Rutgers University): Cyberbotany: Towards a Typology of Digital Enclosure of Community Knowledge in Forbidden and Undone Science
March 30th [Algorithms] – Katy Habr (Columbia University): TBD
April 6th [Algorithms] (Zoom) – David Gray-Widder (MIT): TBD
April 13th – Ruotong Niu (Columbia University): Asymmetrical Intimacy: How People Form Emotional Relationships with AI Companions
April 20th – Rafael de Andrade Moral (Maynooth University): TBD
April 27th (Zoom) – Maja Hojer Bruun (Aarhus University): Automated Expertise? Transformations of Professional Expertise with Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Systems
May 4th [Algorithms] – JS Tan (MIT): Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition
May 11th – Cecilia Martínez-Plaza (New York University): Lay Performance of Meta-Expertise: Using Informal Credentialing to Connect and Redistribute Technical Knowledge Across Siloed Professions