AFOG hosts various public events including talks, panels, and workshops, to learn about and discuss relevant topics.
Colin Bennett, Professor, Political Science, University of Victoria BC, Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and Research Director of Critical Surveillance Inquiry (CSI) with Good Systems, a research collaborative at the University of Texas at Austin; Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson Chair in American History, Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology, Director, American Studies Program, Vanderbilt; and Priscilla Regan, Professor in Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
In the second part of the two-part roundtable, we will put the current moment into historical context to understand how and why we see a recent upswell of resistance to facial recognition and surveillance technology: What has changed? Why does it matter? Where should we go from here?
Tawana Petty, mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data and digital privacy rights education and racial justice and equity work. She is the National Organizing Director at Data for Black Lives, former director of the Data Justice Program at Detroit Community Technology Project, co-founder of Our Data Bodies, a convening member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition, a Digital Civil Society Lab fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and director of Petty Propolis, a Black woman led artist incubator primarily focused on cultivating visionary resistance through poetry, literacy and literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives
Sarah Hamid, The Policing Tech Campaign lead at the Carceral Tech Resistance; Mutale Nkonde, founding CEO of AI For the People and researcher, policy advisor and key constituent to the 3C UN Roundtable on AI; Nicole Ozer, Technology & Civil Liberties Director, ACLU of California; Tawana Petty, National Organizing Director at Data for Black Lives, former Data Justice Program Director at Detroit Community Technology Project, co-founder
In this two-part roundtable, we will build on discussions started at the Refusal Conference last summer where we dug into the idea of rejecting or refusing technology which so often runs against the grain of the celebrated role technology has generally occupied in the West (Marx 1997), wedded closely to the notion of progress itself. The roundtable discussions will specifically focus on the recent refusals and resistance to facial recognition technologies as part of an effort to understand them, draw lessons from them, and put this moment in conversation and context. In this first panel we will explore this up swell of resistance to facial recognition to understand what is happening in the current moment
Evgeny Morozov, Author, "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom"
(co-sponsored with the Social Science Matrix)
Registration required
Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication and Information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Event part of the PIT-UN Public Lecture Series)
A virtual conference intended to 'meet the moment' by exploring organized technology refusal from historical and contemporary vantage points.
Madeleine Clare Elish, Research Lead and co-founder of the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society
Lucy Suchman, Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Panel discussion with: Henriette Cramer (Principal Research Scientists, Spotify), Josh Lovejoy (Principal Design Manager, Microsoft), Dan Perkel (Director, IDEO), & Emily Witt (UX Researcher, Salesforce)
Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Michelle R. Carney, User Experience Researcher, Machine Learning + AI, Google
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England in conversation with Prayag Narula, President and co-founder of LeadGenius and MIMS alum (2012)
Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research.
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Chicago
Virginia Eubanks, University of Albany, SUNY
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Yale University
by invitation only
Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Angèle Christin, Stanford University
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Karen Levy, Cornell University
(co-sponsored with the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology)
Dawn Nafus, Intel Corporation
Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research