In Conversation with Dr. Rua Williams (Purdue University), author of "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong about AI" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
Join us in conversation with Dr. Rua M. Williams, Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing at Purdue University and a former Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. From Dr. Williams's profile: "As Principal Investigator of the CoLiberation Lab, Dr. Williams’s work explores how disabled people imagine and build their own sociotechnical worlds. Projects in the CoLiberation Lab investigate how technology policy and research practice interact to disrupt disabled people’s bodily autonomy and access to meaningful public life." Find Dr. Williams's book here: Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We Are Wrong about AI (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025).
Find the CSUSB Disability Lecture Series Homepage and learn about past and upcoming events here (link). Series organizers are CSUSB Professors Jessica Luck, Tiffany Jones, Jess Nerren, Jonathan Hall, J. Chad Sweeney, and Jeremy Murray. Thanks to Pamela Crosson (History) for administrative support, and Thinh Ly (Information Technology Consultant) for his technological support. This year, our series is supported by a grant from Accelerate InSoCal and The Cog Neurodiversity Space.