<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-adL"><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><div><font color="#000000">Dear Colleagues, </font></div><div><font color="#000000"></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000">Below is a Call for Papers (deadline Oct. 15th 2019) and registration information for a Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) Symposium/Workshop I am co-leading with Univ. of California-Davis' Gerardo Con Diaz (Friday and Saturday, May 8-9, 2020).  We hope many of you will consider proposing a paper (or otherwise attending). We encourage (and would appreciate) your forwarding this to anyone you think might be interested.</font></div><div><font color="#b00000"><br></font></div></span></span><div><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-variant:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><font color="#007600"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-variant:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-variant:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT</font></b><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><div class="gmail_default">
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Just Code is a one and a half day CBI symposium/workshop on how code—construed broadly, from software routines to bodies of law and policy—structures and reinforces power relations. It will explore the often invisible ways that individuals
 and institutions use software, algorithms, and computerized systems to establish, legitimize, and reinforce widespread social, material, commercial, and cultural inequalities and power imbalances. The event will also examine how individuals, unions, political
 organizations, and other institutions use code to fight for equality and justice. Other major themes include the (pre-)history of code/algorithmic thinking; code as means of concealment or secret communications; codes of conduct in business, governance, and
 culture related to IT and its institutions (local and global exploitation through imperialism, human rights violations, and environmental degradation);
and codes of ethics in information technology. The papers will draw from across the humanities and qualitative social sciences, including disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, geography, and communications. We anticipate that papers (collectively) will examine a wide range of themes in the global business, cultural, social, legal, and environmental history of the political economy of information technology. Papers will be pre-circulated (among presenters) and we have plans to publish revised papers (after editorial and peer review) as an
 edited volume in the Springer History of Computing Book Series. </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></font></span></span><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><font color="#007600"><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"></div></font></span></span><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-adL" style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><span class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><div style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Proposals should include a two-page curriculum vitae and a 300 to 450 word abstract </font>(as a single PDF) that highlights the key argument(s), connection of the paper to the symposium's topic/themes, and a description of core methods/sources.  This should be sent to <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:cbi@umn.edu" target="_blank">cbi@umn.edu</a> (please have your last name in the file name and use the subject line "Just Code Symposium Proposal"). </font></span></font></div><div style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal"><font color="#b00000" face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></font><br></div></span></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-adL" style="font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;background-color:transparent"><div class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-adm" style="margin:5px 0px"></div><div class="gmail-m_-146111493694371497gmail-m_990846476563227410gmail-m_-328716607501631458gmail-m_2847643294531808982m_-8285524705141466447gmail-im"><div><font color="#000000">Deadline for Paper Proposals is Oct. 15, 2019 (notifications will be made within 30 days)</font></div><div><font color="#000000"></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000">Deadline for Submission of Papers (for those offered and accepting a place on the program) is March 31, 2020 (papers will only be pre-circulated to fellow presenters/panelists on the program, not to all registrants). </font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Those offered and accepting a spot on the program will have to commit to participating in the entire workshop, revising their work based on feedback from peers at the event and the organizers/editors, and submitting it for consideration to the planned edited volume.</span></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000"></font><b></b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#000000">For those offered and accepting a place on the symposium's program (presenters/panelists), CBI will cover the cost of 2 nights<span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> lodging at a nearby hotel (walking distance to CBI), lunch, and an event dinner. Early career presenters on the program (graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty)</span><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal">can apply for CBI</span><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> travel grants of $300 to partially offset
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<div>Director, Charles Babbage Institute</div>
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