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Huan He

@huandirection.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of English @ Vanderbilt. Asian American literature and media, race and technology, games, poetry.

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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Right wing academic trolls are showing up in our events. Today during a panel of indigenous scholars talking about their research a Zoom participant asked whether they had to sign Conflict of Interest (COI) statements before researching their communities to prevent "biased results." Was speechless.

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Join us one week from today in celebrating the publication of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal! We'll be hosting a panel and AI workshop with seven out of fourteen brilliant co-authors on February 14th from 1:30-4:30 PM (EST). For more info and link to register: myumi.ch/W5m4R

Event poster for the “Technoskepticism Book Launch Party” event on Friday, February 14, 2025 at Weiser Hall 10th Floor & Zoom.

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Lunch with the Authors | 12:30 - 1:30 PM Join us for lunch and conversation with seven co-authors.

Author Panel | 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Huan He (Vanderbilt University), Rayvon Fouché (Northwestern University), Rianna Walcott (University of Maryland), M. Remi Yergeau (Carleton University), Lida Zeitlin Wu (Old Dominion University)
Co-authors of Technoskepticism will discuss their new book about how marginalized communities have navigated the tension between embracing and rejecting emerging technologies. They will also explore how to reconfigure writing in the humanities into a collective practice. This panel will be moderated by Oliver Haimson and Wells Lucas Santo.

Workshop | 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Jeff Nagy (York University) and Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)
In this interactive workshop, attendees will apply the principles of technoskepticism to current and emerging technologies, with a special focus on AI.

About Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal:
From Munchausen by TikTok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.
This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an especially powerful mode—particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no—people of color and disabled people have long navigated the space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies. Technoskepticism relates some of these stories to reveal the possibilities skepticism can create.

Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W5m4R

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

📣 JOB POSTING REMINDER 📣 Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is hiring for an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies! Application review begins Dec 10!! Learn more here: steinhardt.nyu.edu/asst-profess...

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NYU Asst Professor, Media, Culture, and Communication | Indigenous Studies

New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development invites applications for an entry-level tenure-track Assistant Professorship to begin in September 2025.

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Huan He @huandirection.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Audiobooks have made me exclusively read/listen to fiction with unhinged first-person narrators

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Today’s Featured Poem: “Michigan” by @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, from Consider the Rooster, published by Nightboat Books. Read here: poems.com/poem/michigan/

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"Michigan" by Oliver Baez Bendorf

from "Consider the Rooster" published by Nightboat Books

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Huan He @huandirection.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Discovered an ambient study track on YT that’s just a 4-hour loop of an Asian mom washing dishes in the background and interrupting you randomly with cut fruit.

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