Public Lecture on Keren Wang /tags/public-lecture/ Recent content in Public Lecture on Keren Wang Hugo en-us Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:03:02 +0000 Upcoming Emory REALC Faculty Spotlight Series lecture on Feb. 6 /blog/2023/02/upcoming-emory-realc-faculty-spotlight-series-lecture-on-feb-6/ Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:03:02 +0000 /blog/2023/02/upcoming-emory-realc-faculty-spotlight-series-lecture-on-feb-6/ <div> <h2 class="display-flex align-items-center pt2 t-14"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="lt-line-clamp__raw-line">Upcoming Feb. 6 public lecture: </span>"Social and Moral Engineering in the Age of Big Data: Personalized 'Pillars of Shame' and the Chinese Social Credit System"</span></h2> </div> <h5 class="display-flex align-items-center pt2"><strong>Hosted by REALC Faculty Spotlight Series, Emory University</strong></h5> <h5><strong>Format: Online</strong></h5> <h5><strong>Time: <span class="mr2 ml2">Monday evening, Feb 6, 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (US Eastern Standard Time)</span></strong></h5> <h5><span class="lt-line-clamp__raw-line"><strong><span class="t-14 t-black--light t-bold flex-shrink-zero">Event link</span> </strong><a class="events-live-top-card__external-url t-14 t-black--light t-normal link-without-visited-state ember-view" href="https://emory.zoom.us/j/94409772969" id="ember1685" rel="noopener noreferrer" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><strong> https://emory.zoom.us/j/94409772969</strong> </a></span></h5> <span class="lt-line-clamp__raw-line">For my upcoming Feb. 6 public lecture hosted by <strong>Emory REALC Faculty Spotlight Series</strong>, I will be discussing the legal and rhetorical dynamics of public shaming policy experiments in China, as a part of their ongoing Social Credit System project.</span> <p>The construction of the Chinese Social Credit System (SCS) represents one of the most ambitious social engineering projects in post-Mao China. It is also arguably the most significant governance-by-data experiment thus far the 21st century. This lecture explores the ways in which the SCS project was prompted by a ritual impulse to inculcate Chinese societal moral character in the big data age.</p>