You may find this reading group useful ...
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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jay Chen jchen@icsi.berkeley.edu Date: Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:48 PM Subject: [LIMITS] ICT4S Reading Group To: LIMITS limits@googlegroups.com
Hello Everyone,
An outcome from the recent ICT4S summer school was a reading group to share books to read and to keep the conversation going beyond yearly conferences/meetings. I am forwarding this invitation to the LIMITS list to invite interested folks to join us.
To keep it simple and informal we'll be communicating through email and a shared doc (here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/jja9fZtjL1o_12dZwFpb) for reading suggestions and comments. If we need a mailing list or something more structured we can do that later. If you are interested in joining the reading group, please add your name to the bottom of the doc. You will not receive any further emails about this unless you sign up! If there is anyone else who is interested in joining the reading group, please forward and/or add them to the bottom of the shared doc (which we can pull from to send any announcements). If you would like to opt-out/leave at any time just remove your email from the doc.
So far we only have a couple of suggestions made by Christoph. I have added a few I have/want to read as well. Please populate the list with any other suggestions and/or comments, even if they are books you've read before and think everyone should read. The plan is to read 1 book (or a few papers 2-4) per month and all meet once a month for 1-2 hours to discuss them. We will meet via Zoom and I will send a google calendar invite once we have the dates/attendees set. To attempt to accommodate the represented time zones, the meetings will be at 3PM UTC, but the day will be decided via a poll (here: https://www.when2meet.com/?12662659-gEPPo).
The first book we are reading is Jason Hickel's "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" largely because that's what we already decided to start reading during the summer school. For future readings we will probably just have vote.
Lastly, if you have any comments or suggestions on the structuring or anything else I've missed please let me know or chime in.
Thanks, -Jay