[Air-L] Call for Papers: Genealogies of Data Junior Scholars Workshop

[Alex Hanna]

The Genealogies of Data Research Group is calling for original
works-in-progress from junior scholars (defined as pre-PhD or having
received a PhD after 2017) to present and discuss at a Junior Scholar
Symposium on May 24, 2021. We are looking for papers that interrogate the
ethical and political modes of data construction, broadly defined, within
computational sciences. We hope to bring together researchers working on
data histories, data infrastructures, data (after)lives, and related
narratives, as well as their implications for AI and data-driven forms of
development. This workshop seeks to engage with researchers across multiple
disciplines, including machine learning-oriented researchers in computer
vision and natural language processing, social science-oriented researchers
in the history of science, sociology of knowledge and science,
anthropologists of technology, social and political theorists, law and
policy scholars, and civil society actors and activists. The workshop will
be structured as an all-day symposium, split into several differently
themed sessions. Presenters will give a short talk on their work, and an
invited senior scholar will comment on the papers in the themed session.

The deadline for submission is April 5, at 11:59 PM PST. We will extend up
to 12 invitations at this workshop and notify participants by the end of
April. Please remove all identifying information from your original
work-in-progress and submit it via this Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLdquaSmmJXuynE0amp6hBbpQELdQftTTQfciCcbUdLpVUOA/viewform?usp=sf_link>.
Manuscripts should contain (1) an abstract of no more than 400 words and
(2) a text of a minimum length of approx. 4000 words and a maximum length
of approx. 6000 words (the title, abstract, and bibliography are not
counted). Presenters will be expected to attend the event in its entirety
and will be offered a small honorarium for their time. If you have
questions, please direct them to <genealogiesofdata at gmail.com>. Our
workshop is supported by the UC San Diego Institute for Practical Ethics
<https://ipe.ucsd.edu/>, the USF Center for Applied Data Ethics
<https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/dataethics/cade-fellows/>, and the UC San Diego
International Institute <https://internationalinstitute.ucsd.edu/>.

Razvan Amironesei (CADE, USF)
Emily Denton (Google Research)
Alex Hanna  (Google Research)
Andrew Smart (Google Research)
Hilary Nicole (Google Research)

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Alex Hanna, PhD
alex-hanna.com
Senior Research Scientist | Google
Lecturer | UC Berkeley School of Information