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As the Fall semester winds down, we'd like to take the opportunity to let you know of some Spring programming for the Center. We have a number of interesting and challenging speakers - there's three main groups. We'll let you know of another couple of events as they take final shape, and will (as usual) post flyers and further details for the events below as they get closer. In the meantime, in the manner of a "save the date:"
This is a series designed to explore the ways that women and other minorities are the constant victims of (often brutal) harassment online. The events are all partially funded with a Chancellor's Diversity Grant.
Danielle Citron (Professor of Law, Maryland), Tuesday, January 26. Prof. Citron wrote what is rapidly becoming the standard text on the subject, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (Harvard, 2014). She'll deliver a public lecture from 2-3:30pm.
Gabriela T. Richard (Asst. Prof. of Learning, Design and Technology, Penn. State), Thursday, Feb. 4. Prof. Richard researches the way that gender, ethnicity and sexuality are experienced in gaming culture.
Anita Sarkeesian, Feb. 18. We are cosponsoring this event. Sarkeesian researches the depiction of women in gaming culture (in particular).
Mary Anne Franks (Prof. Law, Miami), March 14. Afternoon lecture. Prof. Franks has been instrumental in advising state and federal governments in their development of anti-revenge-porn (or, as she more accurately calls it, "non-consensual pornography") legislation.
Medicine, we are told, is becoming more "precise:" no more one-size-fits-all treatment for serious diseases, but treatements that are specific to your own particular genetic makeup (or the makeup of the disease, in the case of cancer). There's been a lot of very promising work in oncology with precision medicine, but its advocates want to extend it into other areas as well. These events are all cosponsored with the NC Biotechnology Center.
Jonathan Kahn (Prof. Law, Hamline Univ.), Wednesday, April 6. Lunch 12:30-2pm (NC Biotech grant will pay). General Topic: "Race and Precision Medicine"
Lynn Dressler (director of personalized medicine of the Fullerton Genetics Center at Mission Health in Asheville, NC), Thursday, April 14, Lunch workshop 12:30 - 2pm. Title: "Developing a personalized medicine program in a community hospital system: What's Ethics got to do with it?"
Jill Stauffer (Associate Prof., Director of Concentration in Peace, Justice and Human Rights, Haveford College), Thursday, February 11. Afternoon lecture. Prof. Stauffer works on issues of human rights and the testimony of those who witness or suffer rights violations. She is most recently the author of Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (Columbia UP, 2015).
Nick Seaver (Asst. Prof. Anthropology, Tufts Univ.), Tuesday, March 22. Afternoon lecture. Prof. Seaver studies how people use technology to interpret, reproduce, and circulate sound. His current book project is titled Computing Taste: The Making of Algorithmic Music Recommendation, based on a long-term ethnographic study of the developers of music recommender systems.
