Join us in a conversation with Carolyn Chen on her recent book, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2022). Chen’s book is both an ethnographic study of how the tech industry has taken up the concept of care, as well as opportunity to reflect on the value and ends of work in late capitalism. Register at https://forms.gle/oxZcPCMYSRVaofv4A for the talk and to enter a raffle for a book giveaway. Part of the Humanities Center's Care and Repair series, and sponsored by the Digital Humanities Exchange, Humanities Core, Program in Religious Studies, and the Department of Sociology.
The introduction to Chen's book can be found here.
Speakers: Carolyn Chen, PhD; Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Ricky D. Crano, PhD; Assistant Specialist, Humanities Center and Lecturer in Anthropology, UCI
SueJeanne Koh, ThD; Graduate Futures Program Director, UC Irvine
Braxton Soderman, PhD; Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine
Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Carolyn’s research focuses on religion, spirituality, and work in the new economy, as well as Asian American religions. She is the author of /Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience/ (Princeton 2008) and co-editor of/Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation/ (NYU 2012). Carolyn has written for the/New York Times, Los Angeles Times/, and spoken on National Public Radio. She is Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and a founding member of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), a scholarly community committed to the advancement of public knowledge of Asian Pacific American religions.
