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Two Lectures on Ethics & Information Technology

Two lectures will be held this summer term in conjunction with the philosophy course PHIL 09.08, "Ethics and Information Technology" with Professor Susan Brison.

  • Safiya Noble and Anita Allen

The Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, and the Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities present two summer term lectures in conjunction with the Philosophy course, "Ethics and Information Technology" with Professor Susan Brison (PHIL 09.08).

Monday, July 25th, 2022 - Safiya Noble

"Taking on Big Tech: New Paradigms and New Possibilities" with Safiya Noble, internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new demands are increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical scholars continue to demonstrate how many technologies are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, or lacking positionality. Technologies hold racial, gender, and class politics.

In this talk, Dr. Safiya Noble from the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry will discuss new insights stemming from her recent book, Algorithms of Oppression, and posit merging work that explores the impact of commerical technologies

3:30-5:00 PM, Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall

Monday, August 1st, 2022 - Anita L. Allen

The second lecture is co-sponsored by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College and will be the 2022 William H. Timbers '37 Lecture.

"Privacy Law and Racial Justice" with Anita L. Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, (UPENN)

Two kinds of privacy law are in a state of disarray–the information privacy law we need in light of data gobbling Big Tech and digital life, and the decisional privacy law we need in light of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Focusing on race and its intersections with gender, this lecture will describe the far past and the likely furture of legal protections for privacy and private choice.

3:30-5:00 PM, Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall