Registration is now open for Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown’s lecture, What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. May 21 at Town Hall Seattle. The event is organized by the Office of Public Lectures, with Society + Technology at UW and the Tech Policy Lab among several campus co-sponsors.

What’s notable about Brown is that they are deeply attuned to living in our times of polycrisis, of accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence, and they carefully, then, offer crip feminist technoscience, which draws on the knowledge of disabled, mad, and neuroexpansive communities, as a method to help us to rethink the promises and limits of regulating technology with law and policy. They advance the idea of bringing “sick people’s wisdom as a vital tool for surviving now and thriving then.”

The event uses a “pay what you will” ticketing model and will include open CART captioning.

Sponsoring Departments: Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Law (Tech Policy Lab and Society + Technology at UW), Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT), School of Social Work, Disability Studies Program, Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE), The Graduate School