HOULTON — The Cary Library in Houlton will host a streamed lecture, Monday Sept. 28 from 6-7 p.m. featuring UNE’s Center for Global Humanities speakers for the 2015-16 year.
The Center is a public forum designed to introduce students and members of the public to the exploration of the great issues facing humanity today in partnership with the Maine Humanities Council, and also through an agreement with Euro-Arab Foundation.
Frank Pasquale will be the featured speaker. His research addresses the challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology, particularly in the health care, Internet, and finance industries.
“We have always competed for better deals, for popularity, for prominence as an authority or a desirable person,” Pasquale said. “But just as the metabolic systems are ill adapted to a world of cheap, hidden sugar, the social cues and instinctive emotional responses that we’ve developed over evolutionary time are not adequate guides to the platforms on which our algorithmic selves now must compete and cooperate. To navigate them properly, we need the help of thoughtful observers who can understand today’s strategies of self-making within a larger context. The first step toward protecting the self in an age of algorithmic manipulation is to recognize such manipulation as a problem.”
For more information, call the Cary Library at 532-1302.
