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Schedule of Events

Friday, March 31, 2023

11:30 a.m. — Registration

12-4 p.m. — Lunch and program

4-5 p.m. — Cocktail reception

Can't join us in person? Only the Bohigian Lecture will be broadcast live — please register in advance for this portion of our program at: wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/register

Registration is required to attend the symposium — please click the "reserve a spot" button on this page to proceed with registering for the main event. RSVP deadline extended to March 27!

Related Event: Thursday, March 30, 2023

9:30 a.m. — Meet the author: "A conversation with Mary Ebeling, author of 'Afterlives of Data'"

Separate registration is required for this event at a-conversation-with-mary.eventbrite.com

Hosted in partnership with The Cordell Institute, Bernard Becker Medical Library and Washington University Libraries.

Bohigian Lectureship in Biomedical Informatics

Mary F.E. Ebeling, PhD, is a professor of sociology and an affiliate faculty member in the centers for science, technology & society, communication, culture & media (CCM), and women’s & gender studies at Drexel University.

Her research examines the intersections of gender, race, digital technologies, data privacy, health marketing and medical capitalism. She was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Informatics (I2) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and a fellow at the Wolf Center for the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Surrey, (UK), Victoria University in Wellington (New Zealand), and the Institute for International Education (Fulbright Fellowship) in Zimbabwe. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Advertising Education Foundation, the European Union’s 5th Framework, and the Economic & Social Research Council (UK). Her most recent book, "Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance" (University of California Press 2022), examines data and debt subjectivities in healthcare through the cross-sector uses of clinical and other private health information by data brokers for marketing and other non-health related purposes. "Afterlives" reveals the industrial and legislative processes that Big Tech and information companies use to create data commodities.