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Laura C. Harris Series

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Cricket Keating

Cricket Keating
Laura C. Harris Scholar-in-Residence
Popular Education and Decolonial Political Praxis Workshop
September 10, 2024 (Tuesday)
Shepardson Room (Slayter 400), 4:30 PM

Portrait of Cricket Keating

This workshop aims to develop our capacity to intervene in everyday situations and interactions that consolidate and perpetuate the oppressive terms, conditions, and legacies of modernity and coloniality. In the workshop, we look for ways of collaborating with and supporting each other as we work to, in Rolando Vasquez’s words, “challenge the normativity of modernity and the erasures of coloniality" towards the cultivation of a resistant convivencia that is deeply attuned to each other and our possibilities for living otherwise.

Cricket Keating is the Laura C. Harris Scholar-in-Residence for the fall ‘24 and ‘25 semesters at Denison University. Dr. Keating is an Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Washington-Seattle. Her research is in the areas of political theory, decolonial politics, popular education and critical pedagogy, and technofeminism. In her work, she explores ways in which people have both imagined and struggled to build more inclusive, egalitarian, and participatory models of political collectivity. She is the author of Decolonizing Democracy: Transforming the Social Contract in India (Penn State University Press, 2011). She is also a co-editor of LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader (NYU Press, 2017), which focuses on various aspects of the study of LGBTQ politics and theorizes future directions for the movement and of The FemTechNet Handbook (University of Illinois Press, under review), which documents a decade's worth of collaborative efforts by FemTechNet, a collective that has linked scholars, artists, and critics working on topics related to feminism and technology. Her articles have been published in Signs, Political Theory, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Hypatia, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and New Political Science as well as in several edited volumes. 

Her current work highlights and theorizes practices of participatory engagement in a number of contexts and looks at contemporary sexual politics in transnational perspective. This work includes several collaborative projects. With María Lugones, Keating is working on a book, Educating for Coalition: Popular Education and Contemporary Political Praxis, which draws upon their twenty years of collaborative work in communities of color in the U.S. as fellow members of the popular education collective Escuela Popular Norteña. From these experiences, they elaborate a practice of popular education that addresses the complexity of multiple, intersecting forms of oppression and that takes up forms of everyday, often hard to recognize, resistance. Another book project, From Nation to Plurination: Resignifying the State, Economy, and Family in Ecuador, co-written with Amy Lind, examines key concepts in social, political, and economic life in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution.  

Sponsored by the Laura C. Harris Series and Co-sponsored by Educational Studies Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Lauren Klein

Lauren Klein
Why AI Needs Feminism
September 24, 2024 (Tuesday)
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall 115
7:00 PM

Headshot of Lauren Klein

 

In Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), Klein and her coauthor Catherine D'Ignazio established a set of principles for doing more just and equitable data science. Informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought, the principles of data feminism modeled how to examine and challenge power, rethink binaries and hierarchies, elevate emotion and embodiment, consider context, embrace pluralism, and make labor visible. How can these principles be applied to the current conversation about AI, its present harms, and its future possibilities? This talk will briefly summarize the principles of data feminism before moving to a set of examples that show how these principles can be applied–and extended–in our current technological landscape.

Lauren Klein is Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor in the departments of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory University. At Emory, she also serves as director of the Digital Humanities Lab and PI of the Mellon-funded Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Previously, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Klein’s research brings together computational and critical methods in order to explore questions of gender, race, and justice, both in the past and in the present. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, the award-winning Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020). With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Her work has appeared in leading humanities journals including PMLA, American Literature, and American Quarterly; and at technical conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and IEEE VIS. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the ACLS, the NEH, and the Mellon Foundation. Her next major project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, is forthcoming from the MIT Press in 2024.

Sponsored by the Laura C. Harris Series and Co-sponsored by Data Analytics Program,  Digital Humanities Program, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

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