2020 Upcoming Events:
College of Arts and Sciences Annual Plummer Lecture
Thursday, February 6th
“How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them”
Jason Stanley, Yale University
College of Law, Ceremonial Courtyard
Public lecture with reception to follow.
4:30 p.m.
Dr. Stanley is the Jacob Urowksy Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. In addition to his most recent book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Random House, 2018), Dr. Stanley is the author of four previous books, including Know How (Oxford, 2011) and How Propaganda Works (Princeton, 2015).
Wednesday, March 25th
“Discrimination: The Stuff of Social Media”
Wendy Chun, Simon Fraser University
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Event Space – 25 Park Place, 2nd floor
Public lecture with reception to follow.
4:30 p.m.
Co-Sponsored by the Georgia State University Library.
Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia where she also leads the Digital Democracies Group. Her scholarly work focuses on three key areas of investigation (1) cultural formations and technological artifacts, (2) theoretical concepts in the humanistic and technological disciplines, and (3) popular perceptions of technology and technological protocols. Dr. Chun’s work has been driven by questions related to the impact of control technologies on mass media. Dr. Chun is the author of several books including: Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. Dr. Chun is currently working on a book entitled, Discriminating Data: Individuals, Proxies, Neighborhoods.