“Super Useless Super Skill: Super Recognizers and Face Recognition Technology” with Sharrona Pearl

Sharrona Pearl is the Andrews Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in The John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University. She is a historian and theorist of the body and face, which she has explored in three monographs. She is currently working on two projects: one on the failures of empathy, and one on the pathological breast. Other areas of interest include the health humanities; visual culture; critical race, gender, and disability studies; media studies, science and performance; plastic surgery; AI ethics, and the ethics of display. Her talk will discuss the history of facial recognition technology within a critical Disability Studies perspective.

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This event is part of the UCLA Department of History, History of Science Colloquium. Read more about Sharrona Pearl here.