{"id":13791,"date":"2025-04-03T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T13:43:40","slug":"dr-alondra-nelson-presents-at-the-17th-annual-albert-morris-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/2025\/04\/03\/dr-alondra-nelson-presents-at-the-17th-annual-albert-morris-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alondra Nelson presents at the 17th annual Albert Morris Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13819\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_010-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" class=\"wp-image-13819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_010-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_010-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_010-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_010-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Alondra Nelson delivers the lecture \u201cReimagining Resistance in the \u2018Black Box Society\u2019\u201d during the 2025 Albert Morris Lecture in the Leventhal Center Auditorium on Thursday, March 27, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday March 27th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/sss\/faculty\/nelson\">Dr. Alondra Nelson<\/a> (Institute for Advanced Study) traveled to BU to present <em>Reimagining Resistance in the \u201cBlack Box Society\u201d<\/em> at our department&#8217;s 17th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/community\/events-and-workshops\/albert-morris-lecture\/\">Morris Lecture<\/a>. We were honored to meet Dr. Nelson and hear more about her recent research on artificial intelligence and &#8220;the relationship between the possibilities of knowing and possibilities for social change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_003-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"wp-image-13812 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_003-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_003-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_003-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_003-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazli Kibria introducing the 2025 Morris Lecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13814\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_005-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"wp-image-13814 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_005-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_005-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_005-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_005-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Zabala Ortiz introducing Dr. Alondra Nelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13821\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_012-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_012-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_012-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_012-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_012-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Alondra Nelson on \u201cReimagining Resistance in the \u2018Black Box Society\u2019\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_001-1-636x422.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13810 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_001-1-636x422.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_001-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_001-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_001-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_018-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13827 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_018-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_018-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_018-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_018-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13826\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_017-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_017-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_017-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_017-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_017-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saida Grundy during the Q&amp;A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13822\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_013-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_013-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_013-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_013-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/files\/2025\/04\/Morris_Lecture_abs_013-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Schoenfeld, Jonathan Mijs, Jessica Simes, Max Greenberg, and Jane Pryma (<em>left to right)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday March 27th, Dr. Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study) traveled to BU to present Reimagining 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We were honored to meet Dr. Nelson and hear more about her recent research on artificial intelligence and &#8220;the relationship between the possibilities of knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4110,4019,3974,4125,4091,1,4121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}