WEEK 18 / SEMINAR WITH NEDA ATANASOSKI & KALINDI VORA

WEEK 18 / WITH NEDA ATANASOSKI︎︎︎ & KALINDI VORA︎︎︎

Surrogate Humanity

SEMINAR LEADERS

Photograph by Francesca Romeo

[ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A portrait of Neda Atanasoski. Neda has black hair and brown eyes. She has bangs and a red streak in her hair that frames the left side of her face. She is wearing red lipstick, earrings, and a black sleeveless shirt. Looking directly into the camera, she is smiling slightly with her mouth closed. The photo captures her upper torso and head, and she is centered in the image. Behind her is a dark green wall of plants, which span the entire background of the photograph. ︎︎ heart symbol ]

Neda Atanasoski is Visiting Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (co-authored with Kalindi Vora, Duke University Press, 2019). She is also the co-editor of a 2017 special issue of the journal Social Identities, titled “Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution.” Atanasoski has published articles on gender and religion, nationalism and war, human rights and humanitarianism, and race and technology. Atanasoski serves as the co-editor of the journal Critical Ethnic Studies. Prior to UMD, she was Professor of Feminsit Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where she was also the founding co-director of the Center for Racial Justice.

Photograph by University of California, Davis

[ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A square portrait of Kalindi Vora. Kalindi wears her dark brown hair pinned back with her bangs swept to the side. She has a slight smile and is looking directly into the camera. The top of her head is slightly out of frame, and the neckline of her black blazer and red shirt is just within frame. Behind her, and out of focus, are the leaves of a plant. ︎︎ heart symbol ]

Kalindi Vora is Visiting Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (Rachel Carson Book Prize 2018), takes up questions of technology, colonialism and raced and gendered labor under globalization. Her second book is Surrogate Humanity: Race Robotics and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke 2019), co-authored with Neda Atanasoski, a project on the racial and gendered politics of robotics and artificial intelligence. With the Precarity Lab, she is co-author of Technoprecarious (2020). Her past research has included ethnographic study of IT professionals and gestational surrogates in India, about which she has edited special issues and published in journals such as: Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Social Identities, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Postmodern Culture, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Prior to Yale, she was the Director of the Feminist Research Institute and Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at The University of California Davis and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego.

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