[Air-L] Fwd: FTN: Video Dialogue Session: Tuesday, Oct 1, The New School

[Radhika G]

Video Dialogue: Katherine Gibson & Lucy SuchmanTuesday, October 1, 2013 at
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (Room I202),
Arnhold Hall<http://events.newschool.edu/theresa-lang-community-and-student-center>55
West 13th Street
[image: Video Dialogue: Katherine Gibson & Lucy
Suchman]<http://events.newschool.edu/photo/76071>

A conversation between *Katherine Gibson*, Research Professor at the
Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, and*Lucy
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.

For more information:  Anne Balsamo  annebalsamo at gmail.com