THE LECTURE SERIES

RSPI incubates emerging research on racial inequality for the VCU and Richmond community by convening a year-long lecture series for cutting-edge scholarship on topics that include: algorithmic stratification, environmental racism, digital labor, and intersectional approaches to contemporary inequalities.

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Guest lecturers are invited to present research-in-progress on some dimension of race, space, and place in the digital society. 

RSPI collaborators are currently examining:

• How black women consumers exploit fin-tech, market inefficiencies, and beauty ideologies to build transnational economies 

• The intersections of racial capitalism and environmental policy in local, networked communities

• The moral contracts in black popular culture

• The demise of chocolate cities

• Garveyism for contemporary scholarship and praxis

• How communities experience eviction and housing insecurity

As you can see, RSPI interprets digital society as any paradigm that acknowledges technological change.  

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We welcome research from across the humanistic social sciences. Early and mid-career researchers who would benefit from constructive feedback and developing a research community are especially welcome. 

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Lecture details will be updated here as speakers are finalized.