This workshop will be hybrid, held both in-person at Aarhus and online, on Tuesday August 19, 8:30AM-11:30AM EST. We welcome participation from those interested in reflecting on the history of collective organizing in computing to inform a collective response to rising technofascism and increasing attacks on academia and higher education.
Those interested in participating may submit a 2-3 page position paper OR 250 words about yourself and your interest in this workshop. Those who submit a position paper will also be invited to consider publishing this work via the Tech Otherwise site. Publication in this repository will provide your contribution with a permanent DOI for colleagues to reference your work, and the possibility for other contributors and readers to engage with your submission.
🚩 RSVP for the workshop here.
Please notify us via the interest form whether you plan to attend online or in-person. We plan to close the RSVP form by July 21, three weeks in advance of the workshop; online attendance will be capped to enable meaningful conversation and discussion across the group.
Themes
We invite papers that reflect on contemporary practice and histories of activism. We are especially interested in reflections on what strategies worked and did not work. Papers can focus on, but are not limited to:
Reflections on contemporary struggles
Reflections on the last decade of collective resistance and worker organizing, including popular worker-led responses to the tech sector and the subsequent corporate responseses
Reflections on interventions by critical computing scholars
Reflections on scholarly interventions on the tech sector and how that has shaped the current techno-fascist moment
Reflections on previous movement histories
Reflections and evaluation of the potential lessons and strategic insights from prior decades of resistance, both in comptuing and outside it
Timeline
- Submission Deadline: July 21
- Notification of Acceptance: July 28
Tentative Workshop Agenda
8:30–9:30AM ET / 2:30–3:30PM CEST – Reflecting on the Tech Lash
- Brief, 2–3 minute presentations from organizers from #NoTechforICE, No Tech for Apartheid, union and worker organizers within tech-ademia
- Open Q&A and discussion
9:30–10:30AM ET / 3:30–4:30PM CEST – Radical Histories of Collective Organizing in Computing
- A fireside chat with Joan Greenbaum, Computer People for Peace and Lucy Suchman, co-founder of Computer People for Social Responsibility
10:30–11:30AM ET / 4:30–5:30PM CEST – Small Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks
- Small group discussion, with parallel online and in-person discussions; focus on applying strategic reflections from panel discussions to strategies for collective action in computing in response to rising technofascism and austerity
- Report backs and concluding remarks
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