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\n Save the Date: STS Graduate Research Symposium\n <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Date:<\/strong> Friday, September 11<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: ANN 106<\/p>\n

Time:<\/strong> 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ph.D. students who received summer grant funding from STPL will share the results of their research. The daylong event will comprise four panels, each with a different USC faculty member serving as respondent. Students represent numerous disciplines and constituent schools of USC. We are grateful to Dornsife College and to the Annenberg School for their support of STS summer research stipends for Ph.D. students.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please RSVP at this link.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n

(10:00\u201310:15) Opening Remarks<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

(10:15\u201311:45) Technologies, Cultural Production, and Labor — Juan De Lara<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Muyao Jiang<\/strong> (Communication), \u201cPrecarious Circulations: Individual Resellers and the Translation of Mobile Technology in Shenzhen\u201d<\/p>\n

Sui Wang<\/strong> (Communication), \u201cEngineering Empathy: How Socioemotional AI Reorganizes Care, Labor, and Emotional Life\u201d<\/p>\n

Bena Habtamu<\/strong> (Anthropology), \u201cPreparing for the Future in an African Metropolis\u201d<\/p>\n

Alfonso Hegde<\/strong> (Communication), \u201cThe Auteur\u2013Owner Figure: How Film Directors Have Been Constructed as Geniuses through Ownership over Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI)\u201d<\/p>\n

(11:45\u201312:45) Lunch<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

(12:45\u20131:50) Science, Technology, and Territory — Peter Ekman<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Christina Marsh<\/strong> (American Studies and Ethnicity), \u201c\u2018With Mind, Hand, and Hammer\u2019: Reevaluating Legacies of Geological Extraction in the Clarence King Papers\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrea Kim<\/strong> (Cinema), \u201cA Study on the Creative Provenance of Skid Row Artists: Designing Reciprocal Data Exchange\u201d<\/p>\n

Elaina Foley<\/strong> (History), \u201cThe Chemistry of Herbaria: Collecting and Conserving Plants in the 19th Century\u201d<\/p>\n

(2:00\u20133:30) Expertise and Nation-Building — Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Denise Toor<\/strong> (Communication), \u201cChokepoints in Canada\u2019s \u2018Sovereign AI\u2019 Project\u201d<\/p>\n

Bouchra Tafrata<\/strong> (Anthropology), \u201cArid Modernities: Agro-Industrial Infrastructure and Hydraulic Futures in Southern Morocco\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruohan Zhou<\/strong> (History), \u201cThe 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China\u2019s Manufacturing Rise\u201d<\/p>\n

Stella Lin<\/strong> (Communication), \u201cFamily as Prototype and the Children of Computers\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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