<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear SIGCIS Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Many thanks to all of you who have registered for the Charles Babbage Institute's "Just Code" Online Symposium! Con and I are so excited about the event/program!  It is composed of a tremendously talented, interdisciplinary (history, sociology, anthro., STS, media studies, philosophy, comm.) group of scholars  presenting on IT and societal inequality across time, place, and culture. Our speakers are from universities spanning the world, while our many registrants extend geographic diversity even further,  Faculty and  grad. student registrants--from China, India, Malaysia, Japan, Australia,  New Zealand, UK, Russia, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany to Portugal, Estonia, S. Korea, Singapore, Greece, Egypt,, Israel, Kuwait, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, U.S, and many other countries--make this truly a global event! While well over 95 percent are from universities, we also have registrants from museums, libraries, national and international government bodies (United Nations, U.S. Dept. of Energy, etc.), as well as data scientists, artists, and activists.</div><div><br></div><div><b>If you have not registered yet, we hope you will join us for some tremendous scholarship and engaging dialogue.  Please register TODAY, registration is free (name, email, affiliation; takes 15 or 20 seconds) and closes in 2 days. Registering by the deadline (Fri. Oct. 16th) is the ONLY way to attend.</b>  The program is below or accessible at the site link below.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to the papers and discussion, we are delighted that (Mahoney Prize committee member) Rice Univ. History Prof. Elizabeth Petrick will be announcing this year's SIGCIS CHM  Michael S. Mahoney Book Prize Recipient at the "Just Code" Symposium.</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff and Con</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/home" target="_blank">Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT" </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<b>.</b></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font size="4"><b>"<a href="https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/registration" target="_blank">Just Code" </a></b><a href="https://justcode.cbi.umn.edu/registration" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Free Registration</a><b> </b></font></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;text-align:center"><b>(required to attend, deadline Fri. Oct. 16th)</b></div></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_kg90iod60" alt="CBI Just Code jpeg 2 top half B.jpg" width="504" height="248" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.833333em 0px 0.555556em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35">Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Global Political Economy of IT</h1><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4">An Online Symposium of the Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</font></b></div><h3 style="text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:1.333em;line-height:1.35;margin:1.75em 0px 0.833em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Friday, Oct 23<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:17.9955px;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">rd</span> (All times Central/Minneapolis)</span></h3><h3 style="text-align:left;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.75em 0px 0.833em"><font size="2"><u>9:30 to 9:45 am </u></font></h3><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.63636em 0px 0.833333em">Opening Remarks and Acknowledging Sponsors/Co-Sponsors</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Jeffrey Yost</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>9:45 to 11:20 am </u></b></p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.63636em 0px 0.833333em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Keynote Session I: Coding Power</span></h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) and History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>11:30 am to 12:45 pm </u></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Reinvention and Resistance</span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Honghong Tinn, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Colette Perold, </span>Assistant Professor, Media Studies department at the University of Colorado Boulder, "Assembling the Continental Computer: IBM’s Resurgence in Cold-War Brazil."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Hector Beltran, Department of Anthropology, MIT. “Code Work: Thinking with the System in México.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Shreeharsh Kelkar, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley. “Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: Technology Reformers and the Platformization of Institutions.”</span></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">12:45 pm to 1:30 pm - Lunch Break </p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>1:30  to 2:20 pm </u></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Labor and Politics</span>           </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Stephanie Dick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology. “US Labor Unions, Automation, and Technical Unemployment: Fighting for Whose Justice?”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Gerardo Con Diaz, Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis, <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">"Prometheus's Patents: Owning Medical Algorithms in the 21st Century.”</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>2:25 to 3:40 pm</u></b> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Education, Work, and Culture</span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Sally Kohlstedt, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Elizabeth Semler, HSTM, UMN. “Employee Handbooks, Company Calendars, and In/Equality at Midwest Computing Companies.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Jeffrey R. Yost, Charles Babbage Institute and HSTM, University of Minnesota. “Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: </span>IBM System Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>3:50 to 5:15 pm </u></b></p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.63636em 0px 0.833333em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Keynote Session II: Government and Corporate Surveillance in Comparative Economic Contexts</span></h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis and Jeffrey R. Yost, CBI and HSTM, University of Minnesota</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Ya-Wen Lei, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. “Delivering Discontent: Platform Architecture, Labor Control, and Contention in China.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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><hr style="box-sizing:content-box;height:0px;overflow:visible;border-top:0px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(213,214,210);margin:1.5em 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.75em 0px 0.833em"><font size="2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Saturday, Oct. 24<span style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th </span></span></span></span>(All times are Central)</font></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Brief Day Two Welcome, Jeffrey Yost</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>9:30 to 11:00 am </u></b></p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.35;margin:1.63636em 0px 0.833333em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Keynote Session III:  Social and Environmental Control Through Computers</span></h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Gerardo Con Diaz, University of California, Davis</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>11:10</u></b>  </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">CHM/Michael S. Mahoney Prize Winner Announcement-Elizabeth Petrick, Rice, Univ. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>11:15-12:40</u></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Law, Environment, and Policy</span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Shun-Ling Chen, Institute Jurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica. “The Politics of Openness in the Age of the Cloud and AI.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Hamid Ekbia, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University. “Algorithmic Collusion: Legal Challenges and Social Risks.”</span></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">12:40 to 1:30 - Lunch Break</p></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u> </u></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><b><u>1:30 to 2:45 pm</u></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">Interfaces and Infrastructures</span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chair: Corinna Schlombs, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Elizabeth Petrick, Department of History, Rice University. “Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Chigusa Kita, Department of Informatics, Kyoto University. “Character Codes and Local Writing Cultures.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.333em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">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></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><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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<div>612 625 8054 Fax</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>