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SUMMARY:Monthly Institute Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Institute meets monthly to exchange updates on projects and share ideas.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/monthly-institute-team-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar who has spent the last decade studying the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She holds the inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris\, is a senior principal researcher at MSR\, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney. Her new book\, The Atlas of AI: Power\, Politics\, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (available here for pre-order) explores the hidden costs of artificial intelligence\, from natural resources and energy to labor and data\, and reveals how AI systems have saturated political life and depleted the planet. \nShe will be discussing the themes of her book with Wendy Chun. Wendy is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media\, and leads the Digital Democracies Institute where researchers investigate themes of mis- and disinformation\, authenticity\, and counterspeech\, amongst many others. The conversation will be a wonderful opportunity to hear two leading academics discuss issues that are crucial to our time\, with repercussions pertinent to our lives\, both online and in our communities. Don’t miss it. \nClick here to register [Attendees will also receive a flyer for 25% off when they order the book on registration]
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/kate-crawford-talks-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Wendy at National Humanities Center at AI and the Humanities Conference
DESCRIPTION:Wendy will be presenting a keynote at the conference on “How Has Artificial Intelligence Challenged the Boundaries of Humanistic Thinking\,”
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/wendy-at-national-humantiies-center-at-ai-and-the-humanities-conference/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Kara Keeling talks to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Details tbd
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/kara-keeling-talks-to-the-institute/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Spry Memorial Lecture - Changing the Spectrum: Race\, media and building democracy in Canada.
DESCRIPTION:The Spry Memorial Lecture has a long history of tackling key issues facing Canadian media and its role in the national conversation. For the 2021 event\, Spry joins with Media Democracy Days and the Digital Democracies Institute to bring together leading figures in Canadian media in conversation about race\, media and building democracy in Canada. \nOur panelists Desmond Cole and Tanya Talaga\, along with moderator Candis Callison\, will consider recent attention over the escalation of commentary on the representation of Indigenous\, Black\, and people of colour; the structural challenges that currently impede calls for greater diversity; and discuss how institutions and platforms can foster a more constructive dialogue. At a time when violent events internationally\, nationally\, and locally are making headlines on a frequent basis\, the urgency of this panel is incontestable. Not to be missed! \nRegister here for links \nPart of Towards Equity\, SFU Public Square’s 2021 Community Summit Series.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/spry-memorial-lecture-changing-the-spectrum-race-media-and-building-democracy-in-canada/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:EDI in AI Workshop
DESCRIPTION:After several exceptional months have passed\, we started replanning for the EDI in AI workshop in consultation with the Quebec government: Hoping for a COVID19 recession by early next year\, we aim to hold the EDI in AI workshop on 26th and 27th of April 2021 in Montreal.\n\nThe aim of this workshop activity is to identify potential collaboration priorities in research in equity\, diversity and inclusion in AI under the upcoming Horizon Europe Programme (HEU 2021-2027)\, in order to boost EU-Canada STI collaboration activities in the area. The meeting will consist of a day for policy discussion and identification of common priorities and foresighting\, and a second day for the identification of potential ways forward and mechanisms for cooperation by funding decision-makers (joint programming\, twinning\, program alignment etc.).
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/edi-in-ai-workshop/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Anna Engelhardt & Niels Ten Oever talk to the Institute
DESCRIPTION:Niels ten Oever: The quantum state of topological infrastructure reconfigurations: the case of 5G \nNiels is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance’-project at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a research fellow with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at the European University Viadrina and an associated scholar with the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. His research focuses on how norms\, such as human rights\, get inscribed\, resisted\, and subverted in the Internet infrastructure through its transnational governance. \nNiels tries to understand how invisible infrastructures provide a socio-technical ordering to information societies and how this influences the distribution of wealth\, power\, and possibilities. \n  \nAnna Engelhardt: Spectral Volumes of Russian Cyber Warfare\n\nAnna(b. 1994\, Kostroma\, Russia) is a media artist\, researcher\, and writer based in London. Her main interests are the (de)colonial politics of algorithmic and logistical infrastructures in post-Soviet space. Anna is currently conducting her PhD on the electromagnetic infrastructure of Russian cyber warfare at Queen Mary\, UoL\, under the supervision of Laleh Khalili and Elke Schwarz. Anna’s recent projects include: Machinic Infrastructures of Truth (2020)\, an inquiry into the production of verification systems\, presented at Transmediale as a part of ‘Adversarial Hacking’ symposium; Adversarial Infrastructure (2019)\, an investigation of how the Russian Crimean Bridge functions according to principles of adversarial machine learning\, presented at Ars Electronica Kepler’s Gardens\, 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen\, and Mute Magazine. She has recently took part at Recursive Colonialism\, AI & Speculative Computation symposium with her research on racialised topologies of Russian logistics. With Sasha Shestakova\, Anna is a co-founder of the Distributed Cognition Cooperative.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/anna-engelhardt-niels-ten-oever-talk-to-the-lab/
LOCATION:By zoom
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