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Seminar Series on COVID-19, co hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation and the Science and Society Network

Please join us seminar # 3 in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) and the Science and Society Network (SSN). This week’s seminar will take the format of 2 x pre-recorded guest lectures followed by live Q&A with the speaker, Professor Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University.

Pre-recorded guest lectures:

  1. Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability & Refuting Black Pathology (30:48) https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology
  2. Are robots racist? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society (23:24) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia5j8ao5ycllyzd/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lecture.mp4?dl=0

About the speaker:

Ruha Benjamin an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.

Live Q&A discussion with Professor Benjamin :

Limited tickets are available for those who would like to part of the Zoom discussion (this is to help manage numbers and Zoom interruptions). Register as a ‘Zoom participant’ on Eventbrite.

The Q&A will also be live streamed on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/zTOBG2RxYTY (Register as a ‘YouTube Live participant’ on Eventbrite to receive an email reminder for the event).

Date/time: Tuesday 12th May, 10am – 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10)

To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you’ll need to sign-in using a YouTube account.

The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream.

If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info@deakin.edu.au

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