[SIGCIS-Members] WEIZENBAUM'S WORLDS (November 03-04, Zoom Workshop)

[Magnus Rust]

Dear SIGCIS members,

After all the great discussions I've been following here, I'd like to share something for the first time.

My name is Magnus Rust and I am currently an assistant/PhD candidate at the University of Basel, where I am doing historical research on the life and work of computer science pioneer and technology skeptic Joe Weizenbaum (1923-2008), whose biography has not yet been researched (as far as I know).

In the year of his 100th birthday, next week I am co-organizing with Christian Strippel of the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin a two-day workshop entitled:

"Weizenbaum's Worlds: Technological Change and Computer Criticism in the U.S. and Germany, ca. 1960-1990" ´

We’ve got a great line-up of presenters for Friday, November 03:


(1)  Zachary Loeb: “Not Merely Academic Foolery“: Mumford, Weizenbaum, and the Computer as “Authoritarian Technic”

(2)  Jeff Shrager, Art Schwarz, Peggy Weil, Mark Marino, David Berry, Sarah Ciston, Anthony Hay & Peter Millican: Reading ELIZA: Understanding Weizenbaum Through His Code

(3)  Patrick McCray: “I Have Pronounced Heresy” – Joseph Weizenbaum’s Politics of Pessimism

And the best part of it: It all takes place exclusively on Zoom, 3.00 – 8.00 pm CET / 7.00 am – 12.00 am PDT.

So no reason not to tune in. All critical perspectives welcome.

All infos with abstracts and time schedule:

https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/events-1/weizenbaums-worlds-technological-change-and-computer-criticism/

Best,

Magnus


Magnus Rust | Assistent
Seminar für Medienwissenschaft
Universität Basel
Tel. +41 61 207 67 43
magnus.rust at unibas.ch


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