Monday 28th February | 6.00 - 8.30pm | Online

This event has been postponed due to the upcoming UCU strike. A new date will be confirmed asap.

Professor Richard Jean So, Department of English, McGill University

This talk introduces colleagues to new digital and computational methods for the analysis of race and culture/literature. It contextualizes this work within a growing scholarly body of critical studies of algorithms/technology and race, while presenting a synthesis or reconciliation of data science and critical race theory for the data-driven study of race and culture/literature that avoids the pitfalls of racial reification/stratification.

Anchoring the talk will be 1-2 applied case studies: one on race and publishing and likely another on online platforms and racial discourse.