Thursday, January 25, 2024, 6.00pm to 8.00pm EST
You are invited to a special evening with Cambridge University’s Director of Digital Humanities, Professor Caroline Bassett, on Thursday, January 25 at 6pm.
In the evening’s lecture, Professor Bassett will examine why many of us are anxious about digital transformations we are experiencing today, including those that seem to promise a new future, or that pose radically new risks. Join the discussion surrounding these global fears and concerns.
Professor Bassett is the author of “Anti-computing: Dissent and the Machine” which investigates forgotten histories of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies has been questioned, disputed, or refused. Her work asks why dissent is forgotten and how – under what circumstances – it revives.
Following the lecture will be a brief Q & A and time to network with fellow Cambridge alumni over drinks and canapés.
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2024
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Location: The Langham Hotel, Wyeth Room, 250 Franklin St Boston, MA 02110
Speakers
Professor Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of English, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), and a Fellow of Corpus Christi. She researches, teaches and writes widely around digital media, computational humanities, AI and the transformation of knowledge cultures, technology and social power, science fiction, utopian thinking, critical theories of the digital, and gender, technology and the political. Her publications include the ‘Arc and the Machine’, on narrative and new media, ‘Furious’, a co-authored monograph on feminism, gender and digital worlds. Her latest monograph ‘Anti-Computing’, which explores histories of resistance to computerized cultures, has just been published by Manchester University Press.
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