13th Annual UChicago International Education Conference Keynote with Zeynep Tufekci and Stephen Duncombe

November 6 @ 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM Via Zoom

Registration required:  https://forms.gle/y6j6hXjBzZRKdtpV6

Keynote with Zeynep Tufekci (UNC School of Information and Library Science) and 

Workshop with Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University)

Schedule:

9:00-9:15 AM   Welcome

9:15-10:45 AM   Keynote by Zeynep Tufekci

10:45-11:30 AM   Break

11:30-1:00 PM   Workshop with Stephen Duncombe

1:00-1:30 PM   Q&A

Zeynep Tufekci

Associate Professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science; Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Tufekci is an Associate Professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), a principal researcher at Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), and a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and regularly writes columns for the New York Times, WIRED, and Scientific American. Her book, Twitter and Teargas: The Ecstatic, Fragile Politics of Networked Protest in the 21st Century (Yale 2018), examines the dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses of 21st century social movements. Dr. Tufekci’s research interests revolve around the intersection of technology and society. Her academic work focuses on social movements and civics, privacy and surveillance, and social interaction. She has become a go-to source for national and international media outlets looking for insights on the impact of social media and the growing influence of machine algorithms.

Stephen Duncombe

Professor, the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University

Dr. Duncombe’s interests lie in media, art, and culture. He teaches and writes on the history of mass and alternative media and the arts, and the intersection of culture and politics. He is the author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (The New Press, 2007) and Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Underground Culture (Verso, 1997) co-author, along with Andrew Mattson, of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (New York University Press, 2006), editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader (Verso, 2002), co-editor, along with Maxwell Tremblay, of White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race (Verso, 2011), and writes on the intersection of culture and politics for a range of scholarly and popular publications. Dr. Duncombe is also the creator of Open Utopia, an open-access, open-source, web-based edition of Thomas More’s Utopia. He is co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute that helps activists to create more like artists and artists to strategize more like activists.

Is democracy in recession around the world, or is it striking back? Democracy worldwide is under assault by a spectrum of authoritarian regimes. Their anti-democratic toolbox varies from voter suppression to media control and state-sanctioned violence, but protesters and activists around the world are using some of the same technological tools to fight for freedom of assembly and expression. This series of region-specific lectures and concluding workshop is designed to give teachers tools for introducing these regions and their issues into the classroom, as well as project ideas to further enrich their students.

For more information, please visit 

https://educatoroutreach.uchicago.edu/educator-programs-2/13th-international-education-conference/