The Jordan Lecture: Safiya Noble

Dr. Safiya Noble is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award, and author of the highly acclaimed Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). She is an internet studies scholar and David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Faculty Director for the Center on Race & Digital Justice and the Co-Director for the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power, and where she Co-Founded the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She and her work have been featured in Time, The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, Wired, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among many others. Her talks and research focus on the ways that digital media impacts our lives and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology. Dr. Noble will be in conversation with Julie Walsh, Director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities and Associate Professor of Philosophy.

The Newhouse Center's theme for this year is Radical Futures. We are particularly interested in exploring and celebrating work that centers Black, feminist worldmaking. We aim to showcase research, writing, and creations that explore the rich intersection between the Humanities and STEM fields, and highlight the way that humanistic reasoning, perspectives, and methods help to show us how to build the kind of world(s) we want to live in.

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