The School of Social & Political Sciences invites all colleagues and students to attend its next Research Seminar.

Professor Gillian Youngs (Visiting Professor of Design and Digital Strategy, University of Greenwich, UK Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society) will speak to the school about her new book, ‘Feminist International Relations Through a Technospatial Lens‘, which presents new analysis supported by a range of material related to more than a quarter of a century of Gillian Youngs’ applied research and practice on power and empowerment in the digital world.

The book examines the complex masculinist abstractions and structures that have framed technology as intrinsic to the momentum of change in unquestioned ways in political economy and its state and market drivers, including in research, policy, corporate and profit-driven strategies. To transcend these abstractions and open up pathways for full socio-technical interrogation of the promise and hazards of advances such as AI, Professor Young’s distinctive critical approach combines insights from feminist theory and practice, political economy and media and communications.

Professor Young’s talk will be at 1pm on Wednesday 22 October in MB0312, Minerva Building, Brayford Campus.

More information about the book is available here.

Story submitted by Gary Rawnsley
GRawnsley@lincoln.ac.uk