Event

Cultures of Datafication In & Across South Asia

Full workshop program is available on this LINK.

Friday, April 12 - Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401

2:15 - 2:30 pm: Opening Remarks, Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania)

2:30 - 4:00 pm: Keynote Panel #1

Whose Data? Whose Ethics?

Ishtiaque Ahmed (University of Toronto)

Marketing as a Data Practice in Technology Governance

Nayantara Ranganathan (Independent Researcher)

Discussant: Kim Fernandes (University of Pennsylvania)

4:00 - 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 - 6:00 pm: Keynote Panel #2

Four Hegemonic Ways of Seeing AI and 5 Ways to Move Beyond Them:

A Majority World Perspective

Sareeta Amrute (The New School; Data & Society)

Machining Culture and Cultural Machines: Studying AI’s Cultural Entanglements

Rida Qadri (Google)

Discussant: Ranjit Singh (Data & Society)

6:00 - 7:15 pm: Reception at Fisher-Bennett Hall 135.

Saturday, April 13 - Center for the Advanced Study of India

9:00 - 4:00 pm: Closed Workshop

4:00 - 5:00 pm: Closing Keynote

Development Aspirations in an Era of Digitally Mediated Transparency

Ursula Rao (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Discussant: Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania)

5:00 - 5:15 pm: Closing Remarks, Sandeep Mertia (University of Pennsylvania)

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Organizers: Kim Fernandes, Zehra Hashmi, Sandeep Mertia, Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania) and Ranjit Singh (Data & Society)

Sponsors: Penn Global (Global Engagement Fund / India Research and Engagement Fund award), University Research Foundation Conference Grant, School of Arts and Sciences Conference Grant, South Asia Center, Center for the Advanced Study of India, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Data Driven Discovery Initiative, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Sociology of Science, Department of South Asia Studies, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, and Wolf Humanities Center.

In case of any queries, please email Kim (fernk@upenn.edu).