When: Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00-11:30 AM (PST)
12:00-2:30 PM (EST)
6:00-8:30 PM (CET)

We invite you to attend the first event of the Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium.

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Opening Remarks

Safiya U. Noble, Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies, Interim Director of UCLA DataX Initiative, Director of Center on Race and Digital Justice, Co-Director of Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at Center for Critical Internet and Inquiry, University of California, Los Angeles

A Conversation with Co-Authors of Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities

Moderator: Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of EcoGovLab & PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine

Knut H. Sørensen, Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Studies,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

Sharon Traweek, Assoc. Prof., Gender Studies, History, & Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Scholars Engaging with Questing Excellence in Academia

Mike Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine

Maria do Mar Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology,

Co-Director of the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK

Martin Oliver, Professor of Education & Technology, University College London

Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium Organizing Committee

Nashra Mahmood, UCLA, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Knut H. Sørensen, NTNU, Nadine Tanio, UC Irvine/UCLA, and Sharon Traweek, UCLA

Co-sponsored by

UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

UCLA Data X

UCLA Disability Studies Inclusion Labs

UCLA Gender Studies Department

UCLA History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

UCLA Barbra Streisand Center for the Study of Women

UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies