<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Contemporary democratic elections are increasingly technology intensive. With anxieties about the technological integrity of both American and foreign elections at an all-time high, how can researchers, policymakers, and publics better understand how technological systems are implicated in election planning, infrastructure, security, and maintenance? <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">The MIT programs in Anthropology, History, and Science, Technology, and Society invites the MIT and broader Boston-Cambridge communities to the second event of our Democracy, Citizenship, and Technology Colloquium Series titled <b class=""><i class="">Elections and Technology</i></b>. This panel of multidisciplinary experts will seek to lift the curtains on three technologically mediated features of contemporary elections: the security of the electoral apparatus and infrastructure (e.g. voting machines), the intensifying role of new media technologies for influencing, mobilizing, and segmenting the electorate (e.g. social media), as well as mathematical and other means of both producing and contesting electoral gerrymandering. One week before the highly anticipated November 6th American Midterm Elections, join us for a lively panel discussion and audience Q/A session about the social and political implications of a technologically mediated electoral process.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">This colloquium is part of the <b class="">Arthur Miller Lecture Series in Science and Ethics</b> hosted annually by the MIT program in Science, Technology, and Society, and is the second event of MIT’s new </span><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: blue;" class="">Computational Cultures Initiative</span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">. Following a dinner break and time for socialization, the speakers will return for a smaller seminar session offered to graduate students for a more intimate and roundtable-style discussion.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">*FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">4:30PM - 6:30PM Panel Discussion<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">6:30PM - 7:30PM Arthur Miller Dinner Reception<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">7:30PM - 8:30PM Graduate Student Led Seminar <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Speakers:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class="">Dan Wallach</b>, Rice University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: blue;" class=""><a href="https://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/" class="">https://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Professor in the systems group at Rice University’s Department of Computer Science where he manages the computer security lab. Dan's research interests include mobile code, wireless and smartphone security, and the security of electronic voting systems. He has recently provided expert testimony on election security to the Texas Senate and U.S. Congress.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class="">Daniel Kreiss</b>, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: blue;" class=""><a href="http://mj.unc.edu/directory/faculty/daniel-kreiss" class="">http://mj.unc.edu/directory/faculty/daniel-kreiss</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Associate Professor and Director of the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Daniel’s research broadly explores the impact of technological change on the public sphere and political practice. His most recent book, <i class="">Prototype Politics: The Making and Unmaking of Technological Innovation in the Republican and Democratic Parties, 2000-2014</i>, explores the role of digital media, data, and analytics in contemporary campaigning, and provides a framework for understanding the differences between the two parties’ technological capacities.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class="">Moon Duchin</b>, Tufts University<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: blue;" class=""><a href="https://mduchin.math.tufts.edu/" class="">https://mduchin.math.tufts.edu/</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Associate Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University where she directs the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG). Moon's mathematical research is in geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and dynamics. She has broad interests in the history, philosophy, and cultural studies of science. In this work, she investigates the applications of geometry and computing to U.S. redistricting, and she has facilitated workshops that train PhDs to become expert witnesses to testify in gerrymandering cases. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class="">Alex Reiss-Sorokin</b>, Moderator, MIT<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: blue;" class=""><a href="http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/reiss_sorokin.html" class="">http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/reiss_sorokin.html</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">As a doctoral student in the HASTS program at MIT, Alex is developing a dissertation project that focuses on the social, political, and legal aspects of digital platforms. Specifically, her research explores the rules and policies developed by private entities and their regulatory effects, including the development and implementation of material internet infrastructure in the Global South.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> Please RSVP at your earliest convenience: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-elections-and-technology-colloquium-tickets-51308123980" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-elections-and-technology-colloquium-tickets-51308123980" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mit-elections-and-technology-colloquium-tickets-51308123980</a></span><div class=""><b style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""></div></body></html>