Society and Technology

What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us with Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown

Town Hall Seattle
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. PDT

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.

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: lectures@uw.edu
Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion, Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Law, Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT), School of Social Work, Disability Studies Program, Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences (CREATE), The Graduate School
More info: www.washington.edu…

Feminist Technoscience Meet Up with UW Press

Friday, May 22, 2026, 3 – 4:30 p.m. PDT

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Special Events
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, UW Press, Tech Policy Lab, CREATE, Disability Studies, Social Work
Target Audience: Feminist technoscience scholars and champions at UW

CREATE Community Day

Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 1 – 4 p.m. PDT

CREATE Community Day is an annual half-day forum for discussing the concerns about and approaches to sustainable accessibility research and a showcase of research led by CREATE and HuskyADAPT. Student researchers highlight their work and showcase a variety of individual and team projects.

Directions and Parking
Zoom link to be provided
Accessibility: Building FAQs | Email

Panel topics and speakers are being finalized and will be announced soon.

1:15–2:30 p.m. - Community Day panel discussion #1 (hybrid)
2:45–4:00 p.m. - Community Day panel discussion #2 (hybrid)
4:00–5:00 p.m. - Research Showcase co-hosted with HuskyADAPT (in-person only)

Event interval: Single day event
Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2)
Campus room: Zillow Commons
Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu
Event Types: Academics, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Exhibits, Information Sessions, Meetings, Special Events
Event sponsors: CREATE - the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences
Target Audience: Anyone interested in research on accessible technology & making the world accessible through tech.
More info: create.uw.edu…

CREATE & HuskyADAPT Research Showcase

Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 4 – 5 p.m. PDT

The closing event for CREATE’s Community Day, this Research Showcase is co-sponsored by HuskyADAPT. Approximately 30 undergraduate and graduate student teams from at least eight majors/programs and all three UW campuses share their projects, covering a wide range of research.

Event interval: Single day event
Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2)
Campus room: Zillow Commons
Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu
Event Types: Academics, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Exhibits, Special Events, Student Activities
Event sponsors: CREATE - the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences
Target Audience: Anyone interested in research on accessible technology and making the world accessible through tech.
More info: create.uw.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jun 1, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jul 6, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Aug 3, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Sep 7, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Oct 5, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PDT

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Nov 2, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Dec 7, 2026, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Jan 4, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…

First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]

Monday, Feb 1, 2027, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. PST

What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society + Technology, and Leah Ceccarelli (Communication), Director of the STSS program. The facilitators run the group, distribute the articles, coordinate and run the meetings, provide guidance and support to hosts, and help facilitate the discussions.
What are the readings about?
Hosts may choose a reading that excites them or that is currently stoking their curiosity.
For instance, readings may take up topics, themes, controversies, and responses to the urgent and emergent themes in this vast intellectual domain of inquiry, which includes but is not limited to scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, such as anthropology, communication, gender and women’s studies, global and ethnic studies, history, law, literature, philosophy, and sociology.
Since we launched in Spring 2024, we’ve discussed articles on care in STS, technoscience and imagination, monsters, agential realism, and ethics. Check out the spreadsheet detailing our previous sessions.
If you would like to be a host, but are unsure what reading to choose, the facilitators can help you decide.
Do you have participation guidelines?
So glad you asked! Yes, we do. Please review and abide by our Community Guidelines.
How do I join?
Email mmjones@uw.edu

Event interval: Single day event
Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu
Event Types: Lectures/Seminars
Event sponsors: Society + Technology at UW, STSS
Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff
More info: depts.washington.edu…