[Petit Fours #422] On debates, applications, and waiting
Hi, all! The big thing happening this week is Riyaj’ Shaikh’s thesis defence on Friday. In anticipation and celebration, this week’s Petit Fours highlights the opponent and PhD committee members – an all-stars team who we are very much looking forward to seeing at the department:
#1 Jacki O’Neill from Microsoft Research Africa will join us as the opponent. Peer-to-peer in the Workplace: A View from the Road is an early CHI paper that has served the community well in paving the way for the ethnographic study of gig work.
#2 Myriam Lewkowicz from Troyes University of Technology will serve on the grading committee. She is a central force of the European CSCW community and has recently co-launched Debate Collections in the CSCW journal. You can read more about that here: Facilitating Debates in CSCW
#3 Midas Nouwens from Aarhus University is our second international committee member. It’s hard to pick what to showcase from among his publications, but one old favorite of mine is The Application and Its Consequences for Non-Standard Knowledge Work
#4 From within Stockholm University, Shahram Khosravi from the Department of Social Anthropology will also join the committee. I’m very curious to see what connections might come up between his work on Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration and Riyaj’ research on food delivery workers’ labor of waiting.
-A