[Commlist] cfp: Algorithms For Her? Conference

“Algorithms for her? feminist approaches to digital infrastructures, 
cultures and economies”

January 17th 2020 - King’s College London

10am-5pm followed by a wine reception

Our daily lives are increasingly governed by algorithmic processes of 
selection, identification and discrimination.This international 
symposium focuses on the intersectional forms of injustice that 
algorithms – and the systems in which they are embedded – help to  
propagate and sustain. Given the significance and ubiquity of such 
processes in everyday life, and their disproportionate effects on those 
marginalised across intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race, 
this event will create a dedicated space for the discussion of 
algorithmic forms of oppression and inequality.

Algorithms for Her? seeks  to support the synthesis of in-depth analysis 
of algorithms – together with their functions and entanglements – with 
critical feminist works that meaningfully examine the production and 
ethics of bias. "Newness" is often fetishised in analyses of digital 
culture. The approaches sidelined by this fetishisation are often those 
by women and scholars of colour, who struggle to have their 
contributions included in dominant canons of thought. In some areas of 
scholarship we may be reaching ‘peak algorithm’ but relatively few 
studies can meaningfully be called inclusive, reflective or feminist.

This symposium seeks to give platform to perspectives on algorithms and 
algorithmic culture that are under-represented in the academy. We 
welcome both traditional conference presentations (15 minutes in length) 
and creative alternatives such as performances or artistic interventions.

We invite contributions related to any of the following areas:

  - Intersectional feminist work critically examining platforms and 
their economies/ approaches to machine learning,content moderation and 
algorithms (broadly defined).

- Intersectional feminist work examining software/tools/app design and 
infrastructure.

- Intersectional feminist work on platform labour and inequalities.

- Feminist methodologies for studying and teaching algorithms and the 
ethical questions they raise.

- Industry/nonprofit cases of addressing discrimination/bias sustained 
by and 'within' technologies.

Keynote Speakers

*Professor Bev Skeggs,* Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University 
and Academic Advisor at London School of Economics International 
Inequalities Institute.

*Dr Taina Bucher,* Associate Professor at the University of Oslo.

Keynote roundtable and Practitioners

*Dr Joanne Armitage*, University of Leeds / *Dr Ysabel Gerrard*, The 
University of Sheffield /* Dr Francesca Sobande*, Journalism, Media and 
Culture at Cardiff University / *Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia*, IMTO 
University in St Petersburg, Russia

*Please send proposals of 300 words along with a 50 word bio to 
(algorithmsforher /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(algorithmsforher /at/ gmail.com)> by 30th 
October 2019. *

A small number of travel bursaries will be available for early career 
researchers who do not have recourse to institutional funds. If you 
would like to be considered for a bursary, please add a short (100 
words) paragraph to your proposal explaining why you are eligible. Given 
that these bursaries are limited, please only apply if you have no other 
funding options.

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