Speculative Security: Modeling Future Diseases and Climates

Presentation by Lindsay Thomas (UC Santa Barbara). Through surveying contemporary governmental simulation systems, this paper considers the interrelation of epidemic and climate/weather modeling and the ways in which such living networks imagine and build possible futures. I turn to both

Networks of Surveillance: Big Brother and Big Data go Digital

Presentation by Heidi McKee (Miami University). In this presentation I will analyze the laws (mostly U.S., but some international) governing the surveillance, collection, and use of personal data and communication— laws that often predate the development of the Web (e.g., ECPA,