SMS Faculty Member Sareeta Amrute Hosts a GIDEST Lab Seminar
Sareeta Amrute, 2023-24 GIDEST Fellow and Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design, is holding a seminar to discuss the online harassment of activists in the South Asian diaspora. Much of the conversation will draw from Sareeta’s book-in-progress, Staying Safer, on cybersecurity and anticaste thought. Materials for the seminar can be accessed HERE.
Event details: Friday, September 15, 12-1:30p.m. | GIDEST Lab, Room 411, 63 Fifth Avenue
Sareeta Amrute is an anthropologist whose work investigates the social meanings of data-centric technologies. She is the author of the award-winning ethnography Encoding Race Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin (Duke, 2016) and was the inaugural Director of Research at the Data & Society Research Institute, where she co-authored the AI in/from the Majority World Primer and founded the Trustworthy Infrastructures Initiative, which re-imagines AI and related technologies from the perspectives of global majority epistemologies.