Salon Series: Michelle Caswell & Miriam Posner
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. November 4,2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST
About the speakers:
Dr. Michelle Caswell, PhD, (she/her), is a Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where so co-directs the UCLA Community Archives Lab (https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/(link is external)) . In 2008, together with Samip Mallick, Caswell co-founded the South Asian American Digital Archive (http://www.saada.org(link is external)), an online repository that documents and provides access to the stories of South Asian Americans. She is the author of two books: Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021) and Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), as well as more than four dozen peer-reviewed articles.
Dr. Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She’s also a digital humanities scholar with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. Miriam has published widely on technology, data, and the humanities, including pieces in Logic, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. She is at work on a book about how multinational corporations make use of data in their supply chains, under contract with Yale University Press.