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SUMMARY:Book Talk | Competing for "Soft Power": China's Image Making in Africa
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nThrough the critical case study of Ethiopia\, Maria Repnikova examines the ambitious but disjointed display of Chinese diplomatic influence in Africa. In doing so\, she develops a new theoretical approach to understanding China’s practice of soft power\, identifying the core mechanisms as tangible enticement with material and experiential offerings\, ideational promotion of values\, visions\, and governance practices\, and censorial power over the production and dissemination of China narratives. Through in-depth field work\, including interviews and focus groups\, Repnikova builds a clear picture of the uneven implementation and reception of this image-making\, in which Chinese messengers can improvise official agendas\, and Ethiopian recipients can strategically appropriate and negotiate Chinese power. Contrary to popular claims about China replacing the West in the Global South\, this innovative research reveals the successes\, but also the inconsistencies and limitations of Chinese influence\, as well as the ever-present shadow of the West in mediating soft-power encounters. \nBio: \nDr. Maria Repnikova is an Associate Professor in Global Communication and a William C. Pate Endowed Chair in Strategic Communication at Georgia State University. She received her doctorate (DPhil) in Politics at the University of Oxford\, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/book-talk-competing-for-soft-power-chinas-image-making-in-africa/
LOCATION:Weiser Hall 555
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event | Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the new book launch with the authors\, Hyla Willis and Irina Aristarkhova! Stay tuned for more details! Time: Oct. 6\, 5 pm – 7 pm Location: Rabbit Hole (201 S 1st Street\, Ann Arbor)   About the book: Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices intervenes in this moment of rapid biotechnological development and international political turmoil with thought-provoking\, creative\, and justice-oriented essays on art and life: opting out of the sludge and consent theatre presented by standard “terms and conditions”; creating plant-assisted reproductive technologies (pARTs) such as indecision trees; practicing compassionate inquiry; and becoming a cyborg-elder. Refusing the authoritarian turn and backlash against reproductive\, LGBTQIA+\, and racial justice movements\, its authors and contributors—artists\, writers\, scholars\, designers\, activists\, and educators—draw on the twenty-five years of cyberfeminist art work from the subRosa art collective\, as well as Black\, postcolonial\, and environmental feminisms. The overall motto of the book is “we will save ourselves\,” with examples taken from critical and revisionist histories of alchemy\, the automation of writing systems\, and reproductive mutual aid. In doing so\, the authors develop new analyses of (cyber)feminist contributions to bioart\, tactical media\, gender\, women’s\, and sexuality studies\, media studies and communication\, technoscience studies and STS\, durational art\, and performance studies.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/book-launch-event-night-sweats-cyberfeminist-practices/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event | Auditing AI
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the book launch of Auditing AI with authors Christian Sandvig\, Ellery Biddle\, and Danae Metaxa! Stay tuned for more details! Time: Nov. 9\, 4 pm – 5 pm (book launch)\, 5 pm -7 pm (mixer) Location: Cahoots Event Space (206 E Huron St)   About the book: How tech companies\, journalists\, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong. Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities\, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things wrong. Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems. It offers a simple roadmap for using AI audits to make product and policy changes that benefit companies and the public alike. The book aims to convince readers that AI systems should be subject to robust audits to protect all of us from the dangers of these systems. Readers will come away with an understanding of what an AI audit is\, why AI audits are important\, key components of an audit that follows best practices\, how to interpret an audit\, and the available choices to act on an audit’s results. The book is organized around canonical examples: from AI-powered drones mistakenly targeting civilians in conflict areas to false arrests triggered by facial recognition systems that misidentified people with dark skin tones to HR hiring software that prefers men. It explains these definitive cases of AI decision-making gone wrong and then highlights specific audits that have led to concrete changes in government policy and corporate practice.
URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/book-launch-event-auditing-ai/
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