[acc-cca-l] FAccT @ Milieux Reception / Book Launch

[Fenwick Mckelvey]

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For folks in Montreal, join us on June 27 from 6pm to 8pm for an evening of AI events and programming at Concordia University's hub of fine arts, digital culture and information technology, the Milieux Institute<https://milieux.concordia.ca/>. Terrace will be open if the weather is nice. Free food and drinks.

Please register here to help us make sure we have enough food and work with security to keep the terrace open: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/facct-milieux

The event coincides with the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. You can meet Abundant Intelligences<https://abundant-intelligences.net/> and the Milieux Institute and celebrate the launch of Fenwick McKelvey’s book SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers.

About Fenwick’s new book SimPolitics
Details: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/

"SimPolitics is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how computers have shaped our political imagination—and our democracy."
 ~Fred Turner, Stanford University; author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture

For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how programmers, consultants, academics, political scientists, and peace activists all worked—sometimes in tandem, sometimes not—to build simulations to win campaigns, predict coups, forecast the future, and render politics as legible as a spreadsheet.

How to get here
We are located on two floors of Concordia University’s EV Building on the corner of Guy & Ste-Catherine Street West, with access from the Guy-Concordia Metro station. To get here, enter the EV Building through the side entrance on Mackay Street between Maisonneuve and St. Catherine street, near Cafe Myriade. Take the elevators just inside to the 11th floor, watch for signs.


Be good
Fenwick McKelvey

Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Graduate Program Director, MA in Media Studies – Accepting Applications Until 15 January 2026
Associate Director, Milieux Institute - https://milieux.concordia.ca/
Coordinator, Machine Agencies - https://machineagencies.milieux.ca/

New book out in June 2026,  SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers –  https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/
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