SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers

Name: SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers
Start: 2026-11-09T11:30:00
End: 2026-11-09T12:50:00
Location: Fauteux Hall (FTX), room 302

Starts: November 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Ends: November 9, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Format: In person
Location: Fauteux Hall (FTX), room 302, 57 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa ON K1N

About This Event

The University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society presents a conversation with Fenwick McKelvey (Concordia University) about his new book, SimPolitics, exploring how computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.