Helga Tawil-Souri | Technologies of Enclosure

ENCLOSURE: Surveillance & Control | Part of a fall series "Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home & Abroad" | A Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University | www.technologiesofpower.org | @techofpower
Organized by Madiha Tahir and Adrien Zakar | In collaboration with Marwa Elshakry, Manan Ahmed & Brinkley Messick
Sponsored by The Dean of Humanities’ War and Peace Initiative | Columbia University with additional support from NMC and IHPST at the University of Toronto and the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University
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ENCLOSURE: Surveillance & Control | Event date: 10/22/2021
Charlton McIlwain is the author of the new book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter. He is Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Engagement at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. His work focuses on the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. He has served as an expert witness in landmark U.S. Federal Court cases on reverse redlining/racial targeting in mortgage lending, and recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on the financial services sector. He writes regularly for outlets such as The Guardian, Slate's Future Tense, MIT Technology Review and other outlets about the intersection of race and technology.