In a world ablaze with crisis, this lecture explores crip feminist technoscience as a tool for survival and resistance—offering disabled wisdom to reimagine justice, regulate AI, and challenge empire, white supremacy, and late-stage capitalism through a disability justice lens.
What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown May 21, 2026, at 6:30 PM Town Hall Seattle
Society + Technology at UW is pleased to cross-promote the next event in the Signals & Society series, Can Slop Have Soul? an interactive discussion with ethnomusicologist and music historian Gabriel Solis (Music, UW Seattle) on the impact of AI on music, musicians, listeners, and the music industry.
Monday, April 27, 2026, at 5:30 PM Old Stove Gardens (Ballard) 1550 NW 49th St, Seattle, WA 98107
Topics include:
How AI is already shaping what we hear on streaming platforms
Ways to center human creativity in an AI-saturated landscape
Musicians, listeners, industry professionals, and the AI-curious and AI-skeptical are welcome. This conversation will be an octave above the noise.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
About Gabriel Solis
A professor of music at UW Seattle, Gabriel is an ethnomusicologist and music historian whose work focuses on music, memory, and racialization in the 20th and 21st centuries. He came to the University of Washington in 2022 from the University of Illinois, where he had been a professor of music for 20 years, with affiliate appointments in African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and Anthropology. In previous administrative appointments, he has striven to develop research capacity in the arts with a focus on intersections between scholarship and practice, and with a core commitment to building more equitable and inclusive approaches to the arts in higher education.
Gabriel Solis’s research in jazz, popular music, and contemporary Indigenous music in Australia and Melanesia has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Mellon Foundation.
Solis also writes a Medium blog, where he’s covered, as he puts it, “slop: ai, music, and [gestures wildly] all of this!” https://medium.com/@gabrielsolis_1219
Featuring Saadia Pekkanen (UW International Studies), S+T at UW affiliate, and space law and security scholar
Society + Technology at UW is pleased to share that our community partner, the Seattle University Technology Ethics Initiative, is hosting its fourth annual Ethics & Tech Conference on May 15, 2026. This year’s theme—Technology, Energy, and Security—examines how emerging technologies are reshaping energy systems and security landscapes, raising important questions about governance, resilience, equity, and public trust.
The day-long event will feature a range of speakers working across technology, policy, and infrastructure, notably, Saadia Pekkanen (International Studies, UW Seattle), an affiliate with S+T at UW, member of the Tech and Society Task Force, and leader in the field of space law and security studies.
Details: Ethics & Tech Conference: Technology, Energy, and Security Friday, May 15, 2026 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University 901 12th Ave Sinegal Building, Suite 140, Seattle, WA 98122
Learn more and register: https://www.seattleu.edu/ethics-tech-conference/
Note: Seattle University Technology Ethics Initiative is offering a 25% discount on tickets. Use the code UWStudent for 25% off. ID will be checked at the door.
