Video Dialogue Recording, Oct 1, 3:30-4:30

This comes by way of Anne Balsamo at the New School, one of the founders of the FemTechNet DOCC. I am planning to attend; I hope to see some of you there!

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Video Dialogue: Katherine Gibson & Lucy Suchman
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (Room I202), Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street

Video Dialogue: Katherine Gibson & Lucy Suchman
A conversation between Katherine Gibson, Research Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, andLucy Suchman, professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

This event is part of the Video Dialogue Series produced by FemTechNet for the 2013 DOCC (Distributed Online Collaborative Course): Dialogues in Feminism and Technology. The 2013 DOCC is an experiment in an alternative approach to organizing online learning based on feminist pedagogies. It runs from September to November 2013. More than 30 instructors from 14 institutions will participate in this collaborative learning experiment.

Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and Co-Director of Lancaster’s Centre for Science Studies. Before taking up her present position she spent twenty years as a researcher at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, where she was a founding member and Manager of the Work Practice and Technology area. Her research included ethnographic studies of everyday practices of technology design and use, as well as interdisciplinary and participatory interventions in new technology design. Her recent book, Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Cambridge University Press 2007) investigates the dynamics of human-machine communication.

J.K Gibson-Graham is the pen-name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham, feminist political economists and economic geographers based at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Their first book, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy(1996) investigates alternative communities economies.