EP #233 - 03.04.2021 - Counting the Pandemic

Today is a discussion of COUNTING THE DEAD, AND ACCOUNTING FOR CARE IN THE PANDEMIC with Jacqueline Wernimont and Robert Soden.

Robert Soden is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto working on crisis informatics, human-centered computing (HCC), and science and technology studies (STS). His research uses a range of ethnographic, participatory, and design research methods to evaluate and improve the technologies we use to understand and respond to environmental challenges like disasters and climate change.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, and orior to starting his PhD, he was a researcher at the The Center for Neighborhood Technology and the World Resources Institute, a software developer at Development Seed, and a consultant to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Jacqueline Wernimont is Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement
& Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College

She is an anti-racist, feminist scholar working toward greater justice in digital cultures and a network weaver across humanities, arts, and sciences.

Her first book, Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media came out with MIT Press in 2019—it uses a two-part structure to historicize the counting of life and death in Britain and the United States.  She is also the co-editor of the recent Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (with Elizabeth Losh).