<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Hi all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">At Deakin, we are hosting a series of seminars focused around COVID-19. Details for the next seminar are below, and if you click through you’ll find links to the subsequent seminars by Monique Mann (Deakin University) and Frédéric Keck (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Cheers,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Tim</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">--</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">COVID-19 Seminar #3: Prof Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://ruha-benjamin-seminar.eventbrite.com.au/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://ruha-benjamin-seminar.eventbrite.com.au</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please join us for the first seminar in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the <a href="https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship &amp; Globalisation (ADI)</span></a> and the <a href="https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Science and Society Network (SSN)</span></a>.This week&#39;s seminar will take the format of 2 x pre-recorded guest lectures followed by live Q&amp;A with the speaker, Professor Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Date/time:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10)</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Pre-recorded guest lectures:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:47.25pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Black Skin, White Masks: Racism, Vulnerability &amp; Refuting Black Pathology (30:48) <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://aas.princeton.edu/news/black-skin-white-masks-racism-vulnerability-refuting-black-pathology</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:47.25pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">     </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Are robots racist? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society (23:24) <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia5j8ao5ycllyzd/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lecture.mp4?dl=0" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.dropbox.com/s/ia5j8ao5ycllyzd/Ruha%20Benjamin%20Guest%20Lecture.mp4?dl=0</span></a></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">About the speaker:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ruha Benjamin an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. She is the founder of the JUST DATA Lab and the author of two books, People’s Science (Stanford) and Race After Technology (Polity), and editor of Captivating Technology (Duke). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Live Q&amp;A discussion with Professor Benjamin:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Limited tickets are available for those who would like to part of the Zoom discussion (this is to help manage numbers and Zoom interruptions). Register as a &#39;Zoom participant&#39; on Eventbrite.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The Q&amp;A will also be live streamed on YouTube live. Access using the live link: <a href="https://youtu.be/zTOBG2RxYTY" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://youtu.be/zTOBG2RxYTY</span></a> (Register as a &#39;YouTube Live participant&#39; on Eventbrite to receive an email reminder for the event).</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Date/time: Tuesday 12th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10)</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live chat, you&#39;ll need to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&amp;IR=T" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">sign-in using a YouTube account</span></a>.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">If you have any questions, please send to <a href="mailto:ssn-info@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ssn-info@deakin.edu.au </span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The talk will also be recorded and available on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">SSN Youtube Channel</span></a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Did you miss our last seminar? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtH1AbnJ7AFApbhh29fL5kqjNFdD_0eID" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Watch it here!</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium">-- </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><i>Dr Timothy Neale</i></font></div><div><font size="1"><i>Senior Research Fellow</i></font></div><div><font size="1"><i>Deakin University, Burwood, Australia</i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>