Dear all, The Centre for the Future of Intelligence is hosting a fascinating-sounding reading group on race and technology, which I think may be of interest to many in philosophy. Details are below.
Bes wishes, Jessie > > > Dear All, > > We would like to invite you to attend the new Race and Technology Reading > Group. Facilitated by the AI Narratives and Justice Programme at the > Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), this reading group > aims to introduce people from across disciplines and backgrounds to key > concepts surrounding race and technology. > > The Black Lives Matter protests in the US during the summer of 2020 starkly > brought to our attention the role racism and discrimination continue to play > to this day. At the same time, we are confronted on an almost weekly basis > with stories of new technologies that replicate or exacerbate existing > inequalities. But while concepts such as ‘algorithmic bias’, > ‘decolonization’, and ‘white privilege’ are familiar to many through these > stories, the decades of academic research underlying them - mostly by people > of colour - are familiar to very few people. > > This reading group is for those who want to learn more about the many ways in > which race, racism, and technology intersect, and how this came to be. It is > divided into three parts (one per term for this academic year): key concepts > in race and racism; theories and themes in the entanglement of race with > science and technology; and how these themes manifest in contemporary digital > technology. > > The reading group will meet virtually for 90 minutes every other Tuesday for > five sessions per term. Our first meeting will take place on Tuesday 6 > October, 11-12:30. You can register for any of the reading group meetings in > advance using the following link: > https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmrrTgvHtyoVnNTOpGGPDhb9gSRr1C1 > <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmrrTgvHtyoVnNTOpGGPDhb9gSRr1C1> > After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing > information about joining the meeting, and a Google Drive link to the > readings (where available). > > The first session is on ‘Histories of race and racism’ and you can find the > readings below, along with full details on the other sessions for Michaelmas, > and the topics for the Lent and Easter sessions. > > With best wishes, > > Kanta Dihal, Stephen Cave, Kerry Mackereth and Eleanor Drage > Facilitators of the Race and Technology Reading Group > > > > > Race and Technology Reading Group > > Term I: Understanding Race and Racism > > 1: 6 October, 11am. Histories of race and racism > Must: > Chapter 3: ‘Creating a White Racial Frame: The First Century.’ The White > Racial Frame. Joe R. Feagin. Routledge, 2014. > Should: > Racism: A Very Short Introduction. Ali Rattansi. Oxford UP, 2nd ed. 2020. > ‘Race as Biology Is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem Is Real.’ Audrey > Smedley & Brian D. Smedley. American Psychologist, 2005, 16-26. > Could: > ‘The Breaking and the Making: Becoming Brown’. A Fly Girl’s Guide to > University. Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan. Verve, 2019, pp. 24-33. > Chapter 1: ‘Histories’. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. > Reni Eddo-Lodge. Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 1-56. > > 2: 20 October, 11am. Race and racism today > Must: > Chapter 1: “The Crisis of ‘Race’ and Raciology”. Gilroy, Paul. Against Race: > Imagining Political Culture beyond the Colour Line, Harvard UP, 2000, 11-53. > Should: > Younge, Gary. “From Windrush to Grenfell, the powerful only see tragedy when > it suits them”. 11/05/2018, > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/11/windrush-grenfell-suffering > > <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/11/windrush-grenfell-suffering> > Brubaker, Roger. Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities. > Princeton UP, 2016. Pp-1-14; 80-91; 104-108; 122-130. > Could: > Hirsch, Afua. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, 2018. > Zake, Ieva. “The Construction of National(Ist) Subject: Applying the Ideas of > Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to Nationalism.” Social Thought & > Research 25: 1/2, 2002, pp. 217–246. www.jstor.org/stable/23250012. Accessed > 21 Sept. 2020 > <http://www.jstor.org/stable/23250012.%20Accessed%2021%20Sept.%202020>. > Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic 2014 > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ > > <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/> > > 3: 3 November, 11am. De-, Post-, and Neo-colonialism > Must: > ‘Defining the Terms: Colonialism, Imperialism, Neo-Colonialism, > Postcolonialism.’Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Ania Loomba. Second ed. 2005. > Routledge. Pp. 7-22. > Should: > Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature. Ngũgĩ > wa Thiong'o. > ‘Discourse on Colonialism’. Aimé Césaire. Transl. Joan Pinkham. Monthly > Review Press, (1955) > 1972.http://abahlali.org/files/_Discourse_on_Colonialism.pdf > <http://abahlali.org/files/_Discourse_on_Colonialism.pdf> > Could: > ‘Introduction.’ Decolonizing Methodologies. Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Zed Books, > 2008, pp. > 1-18.https://nycstandswithstandingrock.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/linda-tuhiwai-smith-decolonizing-methodologies-research-and-indigenous-peoples.pdf > > <https://nycstandswithstandingrock.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/linda-tuhiwai-smith-decolonizing-methodologies-research-and-indigenous-peoples.pdf> > > > 4. 17 November, 12pm: Whiteness (NOTE THIS MEETING STARTS AT NOON, ONE HOUR > LATER THAN USUAL) > Must: > Chapter 1, White. Richard Dyer. 1997. Routledge. Pp 1-40. > Should: > Chapter 11, Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination, Black > Looks. bell hooks. 1992/2014. Routledge. Pp 165-178. > Could: > ‘White Fragility’. Robin DiAngelo. 2011. Int. Journal of Critical Pedagogy 3 > (3). > ‘White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack’. Peggy McIntosh. 1990. > Independent School 49(2), 31-36. > > 5. 1 December, 11am: Intersectionality > Must: > Chapter 1, ‘What is Intersectionality?’ in Intersectionality by Patricia Hill > Collins and Sirma Bilge (online) > Should: > ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex’ - Kimberlé Crenshaw > (online) > Could: > ‘Intersectionality and its Discontents: Intersectionality as Travelling > Theory’, Introduction and Section 1, ‘Intersectionality’s Beginnings’ - Sara > Salem (online) > ‘“I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in > Assemblage Theory’, Introduction and Section 1, ‘Intersectionality and its > Discontents’ (online) > > Term II: Race, Science and Technology: Theory and Themes > > II.1. 26.1.21: Technology and white supremacy in the age of empire > II.2. 09.2.21: Scientific Racism 1: taxonomy and hierarchies of the human > II.3. 23.2.21: Scientific Racism 2: medicine, reproduction, pain > II.4. 09.3.21: Science, imperialism and indigenous epistemologies > II.5. 23.3.21: Theories of contemporary technology and race > > Term III: Race and Digital Technologies > > III.1. 27.4.21: Race and the Internet > III.2. 11.5.21: Policing, Surveillance, and Incarceration > III.3. 25.5.21: Race and Military Technology > III.4. 08.6.21: Data, marginalisation, algorithmic injustice > III.5. 22.6.21: Who gets to imagine the future? > > > > > > > Dr Kanta Dihal > Research Fellow & Principal Investigator, Global AI Narratives > Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge > > New book! AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent > Machines - 30% discount from OUP with code ASPROMP8 > <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ai-narratives-9780198846666> > > <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ai-narratives-9780198846666> _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
