THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025
4:30am–6:30pm | Machines in Flames: Movie Screening and Discussion

Screening of the 2023 documentary Machines in Flames (2023), followed by a discussion with co-director Andrew Culp and sociologist Janet Vertesi, moderated by Marc Aidinoff. Open to the public, free of charge, no ticket required.
⚑ Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall, 136 Ho Plz, Ithaca, NY 14853
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025
8:30am–6:00pm | Workshop Sessions
Ain’t Misbehavin’: Staying with the Trouble in Automated Radiation Surgery Practice, Emma Dahlin, Stockholm University & Steve Woolgar, Linköping University
Jiggling Against the Machine: Moral Orders of Attention Simulation, Nick Seaver, Tufts University
Challenging & Sustaining Automation through Disability Expertise in Urban India: The Unique Disability ID Card, Kim Fernandes, University of Toronto
The Material Politics of Merit, Chuncheng Liu, Microsoft Research
Machine-readable Impunity: Police and the Deception of Mobility-Regulating Computers in New York City, Noah McClain, UC Berkeley
Pivots, Sareeta Amrute, New School
Of MYCIN Men: Mining the History of Early Medical Expert Systems, Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute
Blurring the Boundary between Human and Machine: Cheating with AI in the Go Community, Jiuheng He, Cornell University
⚑ 423 Morrill Hall, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025
8:30am–1:00pm | Workshop Sessions
"Harridans of Highways:"" Contesting an Automated Car Safety System, Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland
Contested Systems: Antidiscrimination Law and Labor Organizing in IBM’s Data Processing Division, Mikey McGovern, Yale Law School
Lying to the Machine, Mathias Klang, Fordham University
The Right Amount of Sex: Digital Work in the Grey Zone of Platform Governance, Elif Birced, Boston University
⚑ 423 Morrill Hall, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The workshop is made possible through support from a National Science Foundation CAREER award (1848286), the Department of Science & Technology Studies, and the Digital Due Process Clinic at Cornell University.