Spring
The Workshop on US Locations
Spring 2022 Schedule
Please see our Spring quarter schedule below. All sessions will be held from 4:30pm-6pm on Wednesdays in Haskell Hall 101 in hybrid format unless otherwise indicated (Zoom info). Please email Zak Arrington (zarrington@uchicago.edu) prior to each session for the paper. If there is anything we can do to facilitate your participation please reach out to Zach Lazarus (zachlaz@uchicago.edu) for assistance.
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Wednesday, April 6 (Joint session with Semiotics)
Jolen Martinez
PhD Student, Anthropology
“Forged as Info: Cybernetics, Machine Learning, and an ‘Informational Form of Life’”
Discussant: Lily Ye, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Human Development
Wednesday, April 20
TBA
Wednesday, May 4
Ali Feser
Harper Schmidt Fellow & Collegiate Associate Professor
“Reproducing Photohemical Life in the Imaging Capital of the World”
Discussant: Rebecca Journey, Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
Wednesday, May 18
Winston Berg
PhD Candidate, Political Science
“The QAnon Archipelago: Conspiracy Theorist Institutions’ Role in Knowledge Production”
Discussant: TBA
Wednesday, June 1
Stephanie Palazzo
PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development
“Decommissioned: Safeguarding the Future after Three Mile Island”
Discussant: Briel Kobak, PhD Candidate, Anthropology