Join us on Thursday, January 29th at 4:00 - 5:30 PM [ET] in-person at Weiser Hall (U-M, Ann Arbor) or over Zoom.

All are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend.

☕ We'll be providing refreshments for the first 100 attendees!

In turning this conversation away from negative reporting toward positive action, we will explore the ways technology can intervene and provide new opportunities, pathways, and platforms for Black boys to thrive.

Can technology improve the lives of Black boys?

Recently, news reports, with familiar conclusions, discuss the way Black boys continue to fall behind, which is partially responsible for shrinking enrollments of Black men in college. Particularly striking are the declining numbers at HBCUs.

Congratulations to all of our brilliant co-authors, as well as to @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman for winning with their edited collection Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice (University of Illinois Press)!

Since publishing last February, thank you to everyone who has supported the book and gotten technoskeptical with us! We always appreciate hearing from readers and thank you to the American Studies Association for selection Technoskepticism as an honorable mention!

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They disagree, sometimes passionately. They find the entire process both challenging and rewarding. They eventually land on an incredibly nuanced, collective voice arguing for a critical position somewhere between possibility and refusal.

They get a little technoskeptical 📖

Applications are due by Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM. Learn more and apply: www.disconetwork.org/affiliate-app

This call for applicants initiates our efforts to bring together participants with a wide range of research topics and practices, at varying stages of their careers.

We ask that you please share this opportunity widely with your networks. We'll see you next summer!

In the harsh reality of after-ness, IDEAS aims to rebuild the groundwork necessary to assemble pragmatic futures of remediation, redress, repair, and longevity. We aim to upend the defeatist tendencies of an overwhelming political environment and harness our collective power.

How do we approach the act of thinking, the act of writing and producing, the act of resistance with ideas, and the practice of being an intellectual?

Aligning with crises in global politics, academia, and economics, we find ourselves in a deeply existential conjuncture defined by a zeitgeist of decline, deadness, and "done-ness."