“Carceral ‘Mindreading’: How Predictive Neuroscience Reproduces Racial Logics of Dangerousness”

Professor Oliver Rollins’s talk extends the arguments from his book Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain to examine how contemporary neuroscientists have reframed the brain as a predictive technology—an imagined site of forensic insight, clinical intervention, and, increasingly, judicial certainty. Oliver Rollins is an Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and it is free and open to the public.