On October 23, 2025, join Society+Technology at UW for an evening book salon featuring UW scholars Ryan Calo (Law), Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), and Katharina Reinecke (Computer Science) in conversation about tech policy, culture, and controversies in technoscience.

Moderated by Monika Sengul-Jones, this event will explore timely questions at the intersection of technology and society: How does culture shape the technologies we use? What do scientific controversies reveal about our relationship to technoscience? How is expertise encoded into technical systems, and with what consequences? What are the implications for law and policy?

The discussion will revolve around the themes of three new books:

• Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach by Ryan Calo (Oxford University Press, publication date: December 23, 2025)
• Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy by Leah Ceccarelli and Pamela Pietrucci (Palgrave Macmillan, publication date: September 1, 2025)
• Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters by Katharina Reinecke (Princeton University Press, publication date: August 5, 2025)

Part reading, part conversation, this Book Salon will be an opportunity to hear from three UW authors from different disciplines about their research on emerging technologies.