Good turnout at the pro protest protest at ⁦University of Michigan⁩

Looking forward to visiting UMich (Press)!

I recently reviewed Dipesh Chakrabarty's The Climate of History in a Planetary Age alongside Prasenjit Duara's The Crisis of Global Modernity in this essay for the Journal of Asian Studies. Grateful for the chance to engage these two thought-provoking books.

#envhist #envhum

there's been such an outpouring of support and grief over the early passing of Professor Xiaohong Xu, a professor of sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. A memorial fund has been established to support international students in sociology and students…

My friend’s mom saw me on TV yesterday; but you can see this timely documentary on China’s “tech boom” on YouTube. Kaiser Kuo ‘s brilliant team came all the way to Yunnan to film with us there, during a period of major city lockdowns. youtu.be/x-Z5hNWkZc0?fe… ESC Center School of Information

Job opening! New faculty position in Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Technology in Development in Cornell's dept of Global Development: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26353

Our call for the Microsoft Research PhD internship program, Cycle 2024, is out!! Join me (Mary Gray), Nancy Baym is not here, danah boyd, Tarleton Gillespie and our colleagues at Microsoft Research New England for 12 weeks of thinking+doing smart+fun stuff together! socialmediacollective.org/2023/11/06/202…

Deadline coming up soon (OCT 15): come work with us - School of Information @esc we are hiring in Racial Justice and Technology (open rank). This job is part of a wonderful cluster hire that aims to foster connections across critical computing, the humanities, and policy si.umich.edu/people/faculty…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
ESC Faculty Affiliate Oliver Haimson's upcoming book TRANS TECHNOLOGIES illuminates how technology helps us imagine new possibilities for trans communities, while trans experiences help us imagine new possibilities for technology. esc.umich.edu/research/

Join us this Thursday (9/21) to hear Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss 'Why a Privacy First Approach to Technology Policy is better than a Censorship First Approach'!

midas.umich.edu/cohn-lecture/

I wrote a short piece on the state of Chinese feminist movements for general readers. Happy to see it appear in Current History with open access!

Email from the Provost and my reply.

UMSI seeks qualified tenure-track faculty candidates (open-rank) in racial justice and technology, part of a university-wide faculty hiring initiative in anti-racism. Apply by Oct. 15: myumi.ch/352Q1 (1/2)

📢Excited to announce that we are hiring in racial justice and technology (tenure track, open rank) School of Information part of an exciting cluster that fosters connections between computing, humanities, and policy. apply here: apply.interfolio.com/130062

BREAKING: We have learned via FOIA request that U-M started making payments to their injunction lawyers in 2022, months before the start of our strike. This shows that the university never bargained in good faith and never intended to avoid a strike.

Thinking about Gayle Rubin's On The Fetishism of the Bargaining Table, circulated during Grad Employees' Org UMich's strike for a contract in '75 and its enduring relevance. The essay starts, '[T]here is not a direct correlation between time spent at the bargaining table and results obtained.' /1

I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern

This is not new or novel. It was women - @[email protected] on Mastodon MMitchell, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.

nytimes.com/2023/05/01/tec…

As part of their aggressive strategy in the ongoing graduate student Grad Employees' Org UMich strike at @umich, the administration has 'encouraged' faculty to break the strike through the timely submission of grades. The sociology faculty wrote this letter in response: docs.google.com/document/d/1AK…

We have learned that, in their rush to dock our pay, U-M Admin denied medical leave to a grad worker about to undergo chemotherapy for brain cancer (even with their extensive documentation). This is emblematic of University of Michigan's treatment of us throughout this campaign.

UM touts our graduate programs while ensuring we can’t make offers competitive with those of our peers. This PR theater is just awful.