April 19-20, 2017. Professor Jennifer Gabrys (Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Sociology and Director of the Citizen Sense Project).
See the recent story in Vice about Gabrys’ Citizen Sense project here. Her book, Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computations Planet, came out with University of Minnesota Press in 2016.
April 3, 2017: Imre Szeman (University of Alberta, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies & Professor of English). Lecture and Graduate Workshop. Time and place TBD. His forthcoming books include, On Petrocultures: Globalization, Culture, Energy: Selected Essays, 2001-2017 (to be published in 2018) and On Empty: The Cultural Politics of Oil (which he is completing for Fordham University Press).