“Credibility laundering as a vector: The afterlives of reactionary knowledge in population studies.”

The Social Demography Seminar (SDS) series at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies provides a lively forum for scholars from across the university to discuss in-progress social scientific and population research. Social demography includes work that uses demographic methods to describe and explain the distribution of social goods across populations. The hybrid series offers presentations on a wide variety of topics such as family, gender, race/ethnicity, population health—including mortality, morbidity, and functional health—inequality, immigration, fertility, and the institutional arrangements that shape and respond to population processes.

SPEAKER: Brian Keegan, PhD

Bio: Brian Keegan, PhD, is a computational social scientist whose focal areas include critical and public interest data science, reactionary environmentalism, governing information commons, and high-tempo online collaboration. He is associate professor (on sabbatical this academic year) in the department of information science at University of Colorado, Boulder, where he directs the Colorado Laboratory for Users, Media, and Networks (COLUMN). He is also an affiliate of the University of Colorado’s population center where he runs a project on demography and extremism. Currently, he is a visiting scientist here at the Harvard Pop Center and is working on a book combining critical demography and data studies about emerging strands of ecofascist data science. Keegan holds a PhD in communication from Northwestern University. 

Contact: kpowell@hsph.harvard.edu

Email: kpowell@hsph.harvard.edu