Thursday, May 14
5:30 – 6:00 Check-in 
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner in honor of the late Professor Sue E. Houchins 
Speaker: Dr. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Professor Emerita, Colby College

Friday, May 15
8:00 – 8:30 Check-in and Networking
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome 
9:00 – 10:00 Opening Plenary | Speaker: Kenton Rambsy 
10:00 – 10:30 Networking break
10:30 – 11:50 Contributed talks
12:00 – 2:15 Buffet Lunch + Panel | Panel Title: Artificial Intelligence and (In)Justice: Black Critique and Remaking the System
2:15 – 2:40 Networking break
2:40 – 4:00 Contributed talks
4:30 – 5:30 Poster session
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner/Keynote/Closing | Speaker: André Brock

Morning Contributed Talks Details:

10:30 – 10:50 Shaunette T. Ferguson, Rutgers University | “Black Protest Legibility Under Platform Tempo and Interpretive Anchors”
10:50 – 11:10 LaRisa Anderson-Horne, University of Utah | “There’s a Leak in This Old Building: On The Media Ecosystem of Black Christian Deconstruction”
11:10 – 11:30 Herline Honorat, City University of New York | “Hyper-localized Archival Research in the Digital Space: Centering Black Histories”
11:30 – 11:50 Kristen Reynolds, University of Connecticut | “There are Black People in the Future” : Wynter and Butler and Otherwise Sociotechnical Imaginaries”
11:50 – 12:10 Natalie Araujo Melo, DISCO Network | “Tanks for Social Good: Teasing Man Out of CS Disciplinary Desires”

Afternoon Contributed Talks Details:

2:40 – 3:00 DJ Jones, Nina-Simone Edwards, et al., Northwestern University & Catholic University | “From Hypecels to Technoskepticists: Labor, Language, Recursion amidst anti-Black AI imaginaries”
3:00 – 3:20 Tracie Yorke, Point Park University | “Civic Becoming in the Age of Simulation”
3:20 – 3:40 Claire Kelling, Carleton College | “Navigating Validity and Voice in Community-Engaged Statistical Research on Policing”
3:40 – 4:00 Baodong Liu, University of Utah | “From Census Codes to Community Power: A Semantic Routing Engine for Data Justice”
4:00 – 4:20 Jonathan Givan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | “Digital Blackness and Musical Practice: Negotiating Identity through Digital Sampling”