We are excited to announce our special event: Smith faculty member Jen Malkowski, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, will present No Such Thing as Neutral: Racism and Technology Design on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 1:00 PM California time. The presentation will take place via Zoom.

Focusing on the racial biases built into technologies, this lecture invites participants to consider the harms and inequities of design processes that consistently center on white technology users. We’ll examine case studies from media history (the racist foundations of photography and film equipment design) to our current digital moment (facial recognition software, Google search algorithms, Zoom as a platform).

Register for this event here: https://smith.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0udu2sqjouHtT2zAi1_CxY7xyopmmKOXbU