<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you haven't registered yet, please register now for "Just Code." (Free, but registration is required, and <u>registration will close prior to the event</u>-if you registered for the postponed public symposium originally planned for May in MPLS, you are registered for this online symposium and needn't register again). The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) for <span style="color:black">Computing</span>, Information, and Culture's online symposium <a href="https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/home" target="_blank">“Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT" (Oct. 23-24; register)</a> examines how code—construed broadly from AI, software, and systems to bodies of law, policy, and practice—structures and reinforces power relations.  Just Code will explore the ways that individuals and institutions use algorithms and computer systems to establish, legitimize, and reinforce widespread social, material, commercial, and cultural inequalities and power imbalances.  Just Code's talented and diverse scholars (schedule is both below and on the event website) will illuminate themes of IT and race, gender, labor, politics, and education across time, place, and culture.  From AI and biometrics in policing, labor control and contention in China, surveillance capitalism, and environmental racism to postcolonial IT control and resistance in India, IT and counterinsurgency in Brazil, code work in Mexico, and IT and disability, "Just Code" will highlight and contextualize systems, structures, policies, and practices extending social, economic, and environmental inequality and injustice in global society.</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best, Jeff and Con</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_kf6mvvbf0" alt="CBI Just Code jpeg 2 top half B.jpg" width="623" height="307" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:10pt 0in 6.65pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><b><font size="6">Just Code Symposium Schedule</font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:21pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Friday, Oct 23</span></b><b><sup><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">rd</span></sup></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> (All times CST)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">9:30 to 9:40 am </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:19.65pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Opening Remark and Acknowledging Sponsors/Co-Sponsors</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jeffrey Yost</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">9:40 to 11:20 am </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:19.65pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Keynote Session I: Racial Inequality and Culture</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) and History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Mar Hicks, Lewis College of Human Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology. “Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and Indian Technological Resistance, 1955-1975.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Stephanie A. Dick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. “NYSIIS, and the Introduction of Modern Digital Computing to Domestic Policing.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">11:30 am to 12:45 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Reinvention and Resistance</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Honghong Tinn, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Colette Perold, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. “Modern Computing and Counterinsurgency in 1960s Brazil.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hector Beltran, Department of Anthropology, MIT. “Code Work: Thinking with the System in México.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Shreeharsh Kelkar, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley. “Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: Technology Reformers and the Platformization of Institutions.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">12:45 pm to 1:30 pm - Lunch Break </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">1:30  to 2:20 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Labor and Politics</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">           </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Devika Narayan, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota. “Between the Cloud and a Hard Place: Asset-Light Computing and the New World of Off-Shore Labor.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology. “US Labor Unions, Automation, and Technical Unemployment: Fighting for Whose Justice?”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Gerardo Con Diaz, Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis, "Prometheus's Patents: Owning Medical Algorithms in the 21st Century.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">2:25 to 3:40 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Education, Work, and Culture</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Sally Kohlstedt, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Kate Miltner, Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh. “Everyone Can Code? (Re)producing Inequalities at an American Coding Academy.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Elizabeth Semler, HSTM, UMN. “Employee Handbooks, Company Calendars, and In/Equality at Midwest Computing Companies.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jeffrey R. Yost, Charles Babbage Institute and HSTM, University of Minnesota. “Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">3:50 to 5:15 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:19.65pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Keynote Session II: Government and Corporate Surveillance in Comparative Economic Contexts</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis and Jeffrey R. Yost, CBI and HSTM, University of Minnesota</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Ya-Wen Lei, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. “Delivering Discontent: Platform Architecture, Labor Control, and Contention in China.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Josh Lauer, College of Liberal Arts, University of New Hampshire & Professor Ken Lipartito, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University. “Infrastructures of Extraction: Surveillance Technologies in the Modern Economy.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0.25in 0in;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:21pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Saturday, Oct. 24</span></b><b><sup><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">th </span></sup></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">(All times CST)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Brief Day Two Welcome, Jeffrey Yost</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">9:30 to 11:00 am </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:19.65pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Keynote Session III:  Social and Environmental Control Through Computers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Jennifer Alexander, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota. “The Mask of Sanity: Manipulation and Psychopathology at the Human-Computer Interface.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Theo Dryer, AI Now Institute at New York University, AI Now Institute at New York University. “Streams of Data, Streams of Water: Encoding Water Policy and Environmental Racism.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">11:10 am to 12:30 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Law, Environment, and Policy</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Shun-Ling Chen, Institute Jurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica. “The Politics of Openness in the Age of the Cloud and AI.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Hamid Ekbia, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University. “Algorithmic Collusion: Legal Challenges and Social Risks.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">12:40 to 1:30 - Lunch Break </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:16pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">1:30 to 2:45 pm </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Interfaces and Infrastructures</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chair: Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University. “Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Chigusa Kita, Department of Informatics, Kyoto University. “Character Codes and Local Writing Cultures.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:16pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Andoni Ibarra, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU & Dr. Raúl Tabarés Gutiérrez, Investigator, TECNALIA Research & Innovation. “Conversational Interfaces: Epistemic Opacity and the Disruptive Construction of Digital Power.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15.8pt 0in 10pt;line-height:normal"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i>"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."</i>-Ralph Ellison</div><div><br></div><div>Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D.</div>
<div>Director, Charles Babbage Institute</div>
<div>Research Professor, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine</div>
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<div>University of Minnesota</div>
<div>Minneapolis, MN 55455</div>
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