Join us for a conversation with Olivia Banner (CREATE and Disability Studies Program, UW Seattle) and Nassim Parvin (Information School, UW Seattle) about media technologies, insurgencies, and alternative visions of care, held on the publication day of Banner’s new book, Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies (Duke University Press).
When
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, from 1:00 to 2:15 PM
Where
Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202
4109 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195
About
Drawing on previously ignored and effaced cultural texts from the 1960s and 1970s, Crip Screens foregrounds the insurgent practices of and media by women and communities of color that contested psychiatric discourses and their mediated and technological applications. Banner and Parvin, co-editor of the new book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen, will discuss how resistances and alternatives to technologies of racialized, gendered, and colonial oppression materialize.
Banner will also discuss the tensions of publishing her book in 2025.
Speakers
Olivia Banner is Director of Strategy and Operations at the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE) at UW. Banner is also the author of Communicative Biocapitalism: The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities and co-editor of Teaching Health Humanities. Prior to joining UW, Banner was Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her scholarship has appeared in Catalyst, Disability Studies Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, Signs, and edited collections.
Nassim Parvin is a Professor at the UW Information School, where she serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). She co-edited Technocreep and the Politics of Unseen, which was published by Duke University Press in 2025. Parvin’s interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic scholarship and design-based inquiry. Her scholarship is published across disciplinary venues in design, Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Technology Studies, and Philosophy.
About the Salon Series
A S+T at UW Community Program, salons are a conversation series held in-person or online, designed to elevate the S+T’s cross-campus and cross-disciplinary perspectives on technologies. Each Salon is a one-hour and fifteen-minute conversation between three to five affiliates from the S+T network, with a moderator. The purpose is to recognize and honor live, arranged encounters as a meeting of the minds, to give greater visibility to the S+T network, and to cultivate intellectual conditions for deeper collaborations.
Hosted by Society + Technology at UW, co-sponsored by CREATE, The Simpson Center, and the UW Tech Policy Lab
