#  Composite Bodies: Gender, Race, and Technology -- Michele Goodwin in conversation with Caroline Light and Patricia Williams 

 



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 **September 16, 2020** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Zoom Webinar (registration required)**  



 

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In a moment where our collective health depends on technological innovation – including “contact tracing” through the collection and storage of cell phone data – visual, biometric, and other forms surveillance collect us as pinpoints of data. Composite Bodies takes up questions of technology, surveillance, embodiment, and power from an intersectional feminist lens. Through critical engagements with law, philosophy, art, history, bioethics, criminology, and advocacy, this series will address how the machine measurement and tracking of bodies is reconceptualizing notions of privacy while complicating the boundaries of the body as an integrated whole, reproducing and reinforcing biases based on race, class, gender, and other historically disabling taxonomies. [Register for the event here.](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michele-goodwin-in-conversation-with-caroline-light-and-patricia-williams-tickets-117049741929)

####  About the Speakers

 [Michele Goodwin](https://www.michelebgoodwin.com/) is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and host of the podcast *On the Issues with Michele Goodwin* [Caroline Light](/people/caroline-light) is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University [Patricia Williams](https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/williams-p.html) is University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University ####  About the Series

 In a moment where our collective health depends on technological innovation – including “contact tracing” through the collection and storage of cell phone data – visual, biometric, and other forms surveillance collect us as pinpoints of data. Composite Bodies takes up questions of technology, surveillance, embodiment, and power from an intersectional feminist lens. Through critical engagements with law, philosophy, art, history, bioethics, criminology, and advocacy, this series will address how the machine measurement and tracking of bodies is reconceptualizing notions of privacy while complicating the boundaries of the body as an integrated whole, reproducing and reinforcing biases based on race, class, gender, and other historically disabling taxonomies.

 *Composite Bodies is a partnership between the [Mahindra Humanities Center](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/), the [*Northeastern Humanities Center*](https://cssh.northeastern.edu/humanities/), and [*Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality*](/) at Harvard. It is convened by [Caroline Light](/people/caroline-light) (Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University) and [Patricia Williams](https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/williams-p.html) (University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University).*



 

 



 

 

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