Technological Futures Now: Racism, Imperialism, and the Surrogate Human Effect

This two-day symposium takes Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski as a generative starting point for urgent feminist and antiracist conversations about technology in our current moment.
Gathering a diverse group of scholars whose work speaks to critical questions of racism, empire, labor and technology, the symposium invites participants to reflect on their own research through the lens of Surrogate Humanity. Panelists will reflect on the book’s framing concepts as a springboard to engage with pressing issues such as the rise of tech oligarchies, the consolidation of technofascist regimes, the emergence of a new AI Cold War, and grassroots organizing around the impacts of generative AI.

Additionally, there will be a student panel: https://www.cst.uni-bonn.de/en/en_news/call-for-abstracts-student-panel