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Composite Bodies
Speakers: Michele Goodwin, Caroline Light, and Patricia Williams
A conversation on how structures of surveillance in the lives of women of color result in severe infringements on privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights.
About the Speakers
Michele Goodwin is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and host of the podcast On the Issues with Michele Goodwin
Caroline Light is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University
Patricia Williams is University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University
About the Series
In a moment where our collective health depends on technological innovation – including “contact tracing” through the collection and storage of cell phone data – visual, biometric, and other forms surveillance collect us as pinpoints of data. Composite Bodies takes up questions of technology, surveillance, embodiment, and power from an intersectional feminist perspective. Through critical engagements with law, philosophy, art, history, bioethics, criminology, and advocacy, this series will address how the machine measurement and tracking of bodies are reconceptualizing notions of privacy while complicating the boundaries of the body as an integrated whole, reproducing and reinforcing biases based on race, class, gender, and other historically disabling taxonomies.
Composite Bodies is a partnership between the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Northeastern University Humanities Center, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. It is convened by Caroline Light (Senior Lecture on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University) and Patricia Williams (University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University).