BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM ESC - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UM ESC X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://esc.umich.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UM ESC REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240307T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240307T160000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20240122T174806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T174825Z UID:3204-1709821800-1709827200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Apryl Williams: Not My Type - Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person in the North Quad Room 2435 or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here for in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/EPbbM Register here for virtual attendance: https://bit.ly/3PjuY6a TITLENot My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating SPEAKER Apryl Williams\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Digital Studies and Communication at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. ABSTRACTIn the world of online dating\, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated\, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral\, personal choice about one’s romantic partner. Indeed\, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms\, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating\, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms’ algorithms\, their lack of transparency\, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies’ community guidelines\, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today’s online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences\, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately\, Williams calls for\, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies\, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction\, beauty\, and desirability. This DSI book talk is co-sponsored by ESC. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/apryl-williams-not-my-type-automating-sexual-racism-in-online-dating/ LOCATION:Room 2435\, North Quad\, 105 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240220T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20240122T173527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T174301Z UID:3202-1708444800-1708450200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Predictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork: Sun-ha Hong in Conversation with John Cheney-Lippold DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person in the LSA Building Room 1040 or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here to attend in-person: https://myumi.ch/PrVPV Register here to attend virtually: https://bit.ly/46TsaCc TITLEPredictions Without Futures / Of Cosmograms and Clockwork SPEAKER Sun-ha Hong is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University. ABSTRACTOur dominant technological futures help maintain decrepit horizons of the social. As Brecht once observed: “I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching\, but it came as the New.” Prediction supplies a powerful conceptual model for this dynamic of stasis through disruption by connecting the technical conceit of predictivity (that criminality or emotion can be anticipated through data-driven modeling) with the mythological use of prediction (where history is an extrapolation of known technological advancements). Drawing from theories of ritual and experiment\, I examine the demonstrative\, belief-building work that prediction does – from 18th century automata of Defecating Ducks to Amazon warehouses\, from the 1956 Dartmouth Conference to the 10\,000 Year Clock. What we call “tech” today serves as a legitimising function for capital\, and crucial to this function is the active foreclosure of any political future other than more of the same. This event is part of the DSI Lecture Series\, and is co-sponsored by ESC. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/predictions-without-futures-of-cosmograms-and-clockwork-sun-ha-hong-in-conversation-with-john-cheney-lippold/ LOCATION:1040 LSA Building\, 500 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240123T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240123T163000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20240122T172819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T172819Z UID:3198-1706022000-1706027400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Wendy Sung: Indistinguishability/Inscrutability - Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person at the 10th Floor Event Space in Weiser Hall or virtually. Advance registration is encouraged. Register here for virtual attendance: https://bit.ly/3sBoiay Register here for in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/73xq1 TITLEIndistinguishability/Inscrutability – Facial Recognition Technologies and the Logics of Asian American Faciality SPEAKER Wendy Sung is assistant professor of race\, media\, and digital culture in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. ABSTRACTThe mug shot and modes of phrenological and photographic comparison to legitimate eugenics-based categorization have long been acknowledged as precursors to modern facial recognition technologies. However\, this talk traces a pre-history of these technologies to different biometric past: the rise of immigration identification papers within the US when the Chinese Exclusion laws marked the formal emergence of visual documentation regulation into immigration policy. Bringing this history to bear on the present\, this talk illuminates how our contemporary moment of facial attunement normalizes a forensic investigatory eye when it comes to facial logics\, one that is indebted to the specificity of the Asian face. I argue that the ways the Chinese seeking entry into the US relied on the very mechanisms of racialized non-recognition— indistinguishability and inscrutability— to bypass exclusion through paper son forgeries constitute foundational logics of facial recognition technologies. Examining two examples of Asian faciality\, reconstructions of the George Floyd murder and performance artist and photographer Tommy Kha’s work\, this talk elucidates that the hyperscrutiny paid to the Asian face and its misrecognitions are not the glitches in facial recognition but are\, in fact\, central features. This event is part of the DSI Lecture Series\, and is co-sponsored by ESC. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/wendy-sung-indistinguishability-inscrutability-facial-recognition-technologies-and-the-logics-of-asian-american-faciality/ LOCATION:Weiser Hall 10th Floor Event Space\, 500 Church St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231115T193000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20231002T155545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T155545Z UID:3149-1700071200-1700076600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Astria Suparak: Asian Futures\, Without Asians DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend a live\, multimedia performance in-person at Stern Auditorium or virtually. Registration for required. About:“Asian futures\, without Asians” is a multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak\, which asks: “What does it mean when so many white filmmakers envision futures inflected by Asian culture\, but devoid of actual Asian people?” The first iteration of “Asian futures\, without Asians” was an online performance commissioned by The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts\, San Francisco\, as part of their Trinh T. Minh-ha season. The project has developed over a series of live performances made for the Zoom camera and for in-person\, with script\, imagery\, costuming\, and backdrops tailored to each arts institution and country in which it is presented. As part of the inaugural season of the Digital Studies Institute and the DISCO Network’s Search Engines series\, Astria Suparak will present a new\, live multimedia performance edition of the project for the University of Michigan and for our broader community. Part critical analysis\, part reflective essay and sprinkled throughout with humor\, justified anger\, and informative morsels\, this hour-long illustrated lecture examines nearly 60 years of American science fiction cinema through the lens of Asian appropriation and whitewashing. Using a wide interpretation of “Asian” to reflect current and historical geopolitical trends and self-definitions (inclusive of East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, West Asia\, Central Asia\, North Africa\, and the Pacific Islands—the latter two of which are not Asia)\, this research-creation project examines how Asian cultures have been mixed and matched\, contrasted against\, and conflated with each other\, often creating a fungible “Asianness” in futuristic sci-fi. The quick-paced performance lecture is interspersed with selected images and clips from dozens of futuristic movies and television shows\, as Suparak delivers anecdotes\, trivia\, and historical documents (including photographs\, advertisements\, and cultural artifacts) from the histories of film\, art\, architecture\, design\, fashion\, food\, and martial arts. Suparak discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures\, but decontextualizing and misrepresenting them\, while excluding Asian contributors. Artist:  Astria Suparak is an artist\, writer\, and curator based in Oakland\, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism\, feminisms and gender\, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens\, such as science fiction movies\, rock music\, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work\, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases\, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives. Over the last year Suparak’s creative projects have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York; Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; and as part of the For Freedoms billboard series. She has curated exhibitions\, screenings\, and performances for the Liverpool Biennial; Museo Rufino Tamayo\, Mexico City; The Kitchen\, Eyebeam\, and MoMA PS1\, in New York; and Expo Chicago\, as well as for unconventional spaces\, such as roller-skating rinks\, sports bars\, and rock clubs. Suparak is the winner of the 2022 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award.   This talk is sponsored by the U-M Digital Studies Institute and co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\, and the U-M Arts Initiative. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/astria-suparak-asian-futures-without-asians/ LOCATION:Stern Auditorium\, 525 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231023T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20231002T153359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T153359Z UID:3144-1698076800-1698082200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra: Count Me In: How Quantification Shapes Knowledge Politics in Contemporary Higher Education DESCRIPTION:How to Participate: Participants are invited to attend in-person at 1014 Tisch Hall. Advance registration is not required. Title:Count Me In: How Quantification Shapes Knowledge Politics in Contemporary Higher Education Abstract:\nHow is knowledge organized in higher education? In recent decades\, the adoption of market-oriented logics within institutions of research and higher education had notable implications on how the pursuit of knowledge is shaped and rewarded. A number of authors have documented how the “commercialization of science” had consequences on the quality of knowledge produced in particular research settings. Backed by distinct cultures of quantification and tied to concrete devices measurement and commensuration\, the broader audit cultures that embed modern research shape what we know and can know. In this talk\, I explore instances of these cultures by looking into the role of research assessments and budget models as mechanisms for shaping and regulating how universities structure their instructional and research operations. This talk shows how several techniques of quantification become important for implementing change in higher education with long-lasting consequences for the distribution of knowledge\, the organization of the sciences\, and the structure of the public sphere. \nSpeaker: Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra is an Associate Professor in sociology at the University of California\, San Diego\, a founding faculty member of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute\, co-founder of the Computational Social Science program at UCSD\, and Associate Director of the Latin American Studies Program at UC San Diego. His research concerns markets and their location in contemporary societies with an emphasis on finance\, knowledge\, and organizations.   This talk is part of the STeMS Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/juan-pablo-pardo-guerra-count-me-in-how-quantification-shapes-knowledge-politics-in-contemporary-higher-education/ LOCATION:1014 Tisch Hall\, 435 S State St\, Ann Arbor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231010T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20231002T152408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T152535Z UID:3137-1696953600-1696959000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person at Ehrlicher Room\, 3100 North Quad (Map and Directions).   AboutJoin us for an event with academic and performance artist Allucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone\, who is commonly credited with founding the field of transgender studies\, and Cassius Adair\, who studies the intersection of digital media history and transgender studies. Stone and Adair will be in conversation about how trans people and identities intertwine with technology in the past\, present and future\, and will take questions from the audience. Stone will also discuss the forthcoming documentary film Girl Island\, directed by Marjorie Vecchio\, which chronicles Stone’s many lives\, including being “a sound engineer for Jimi Hendrix\, a lesbian separatist\, founder of trans studies\, and the goddess of cyberspace.”   PanelistsAllucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone is professor emerita of communication at the University of Texas\, Austin; founding core faculty and Wolfgang Kohler professor of media and performance studies at the European Graduate School; senior artist at the Banff Centre; University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellow; and occasional hell-raiser at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and other institutions of higher learning. She was a Sundance Institute invitee\, a member of the Bell Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Group\, conducted research on the neurological basis of vision for NIH\, and was the director for ten years of the International Conferences on Cyberspace. She is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the State of California\, City of Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Diversity Center; and is the author of numerous publications in the fields of science fiction\, neurology\, vision\, architecture\, new media\, and anthropology\, including “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto”\, a founding text for the academic discipline of Transgender Studies.   Cassius Adair is an audio producer\, writer\, and researcher from Virginia. Currently\, he is an assistant professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. Previously\, he has been a visiting assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and a Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) with an affiliation at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. He is also a research fellow at the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory at the University of Toronto and an outside member of the Precarity Lab at the University of Michigan. His audio production and narrative editing work spans multiple media and genres. Recent roles include production for the SiriusXM podcast Sounds Gay\, with editor JT Green and host Sarah Esocoff\, and consulting and editorial for KCRW’s Bodies\, Wondery’s Twin Flames and Harsh Reality\, Science Friday\, Call to Mind\, and a yet-to-be-released NPR series. From 2020-2021\, he was the lead producer and showrunner of Transcripts\, a production of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. He has provided editorial consulting for fiction projects\, including Brit Bennett’s #1 New York Times Bestseller (and Mariah Carey and Noname reading list pick!) The Vanishing Half. His documentary work has been honored in numerous venues\, including the Third Coast International Audio Festival. With Tuck Woodstock\, he is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting. Adair holds a PhD from the University of Michigan. His writing appears in American Quarterly\, American Literature\, Avidly\, The Rumpus\, Make Literary Magazine\, Nursing Clio\, Misadventures Magazine\, Semiotic Review\, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. He is a coauthor of the experimental scholarly book Technoprecarious (MIT\, 2020) and is currently writing a book about transgender people and the Internet.   This talk is co-sponsored by ESC\, the U-M School of Information\, the U-M Digital Studies Institute\, and the U-M Institute for Research on Women & Gender. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/trans-studies-in-the-virtual-age-a-conversation-and-qa/ LOCATION:Ehrichler Room\, 3100 North Quad\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231009T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231009T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20231002T150452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231002T150452Z UID:3129-1696867200-1696874400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Fall Mixer and Theme Launch DESCRIPTION:  Join us for conversation\, appetizers\, and drinks: Monday\, October 9\n4:00 – 6:00 PM Bløm Meadworks\n100 S 4th Ave STE 110\, A2 48104 (map) UM Faculty and Graduate Students\nRSVP by Wednesday\, October 4 ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-fall-mixer-and-theme-launch/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230516T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230516T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230504T222042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T222042Z UID:3086-1684227600-1684256400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI DESCRIPTION:How to Attend:This event will be held on May 16th\, 2023 9:00am-5:00 pm. Participants are invited to attend in-person at the Lurie Engineering Center Johnson Rooms\, 3rd Floor. Advance registration required. Registration\, full schedule\, and more information can be found here: https://midas.umich.edu/building-ethical-ai/.   About:Every day\, whether we realize it or not\, we are constantly surrounded by AI technology. From self-driving cars\, to facial recognition software\, fraud prevention models\, recommender systems\, ChatGPT\, etc.\, AI is rapidly transforming our lives. But do we fully comprehend the real range of potential ethical implications related to its use and regulation? This event will stimulate ideas and investigation into that question by bringing together academics\, leaders and scientists in the private sector and policy regulation areas\, to share their knowledge and discuss ethical challenges and trends in AI regulation\, along with cutting-edge theory and implementation of ethical and transparent AI models. The event is free and open to all who develop AI methods\, are current or future users of AI\, or are curious about how AI will shape research and our society.   This event is hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC) and Rocket Companies\, Inc. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/from-theory-to-practice-building-ethical-and-trustworthy-ai/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230420T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230420T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T224807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230417T153738Z UID:2930-1682017200-1682024400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Watch Party: Moon (2009) DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend in-person at North Quad (105 S. State St\, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109)\, Space 2435. ABSTRACTAstronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of his three year contract of harvesting Helium-3\, a precious energy source\, from the far side of the moon. His only communication with Earth is through the use of pre-recorded messages\, and his only assistant a computer named GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Isolation begins to take an alarming toll on his mind\, mere weeks before he is to return home. This sets into motion a series of events which reveals the terrible truth behind his mission. (imdb) Rated “R” for profanity. DETAILSJoin us for an in-person movie night with Moon (2009). Hailed as a “tremendous” (BBC) sci-fi achievement filled with “captivating” performances (Film Obsessive). the film has been described as a “beautifully-crafted fable about the consequences of human greed and unfettered technological endeavour” (RollCredits) with an unusual take on the future role of AI companions. Reviewers warn it will leave “viewers quietly questioning their…opinions [of] humanity” (FilmDaze). The event will include complimentary popcorn and drinks\, as well as a prize giveaway.   Image credits: Sony Pictures Classics; GERTY 3000 Robotic Assist Group. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-watch-party-moon/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230417T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T224444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230409T225728Z UID:2926-1681747200-1681752600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Mara Mills: The History of Impairment DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Mara Mills: The History of Impairment\, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.How to Participate:Details to come as they become available. More information can be found here: https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/news-events/all-events.detail.html/102183-21803656.html Speaker:Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University with expertise in sound studies\, disability studies\, business history\, the history of electronics\, and the history of the telephone. Her book Hearing Loss and the History of Information Theory is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Mills is currently working on the history of optical character recognition and\, with Jonathan Sterne\, she is co-authoring a book titled Tuning Time: Histories of Sound and Speed. She has published articles in Technology & Culture\, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing\, Grey Room\, differences\, Social Text\, and PMLA\, among many other academic journals. This event is part of the Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) lecture series\, and is co-sponsored by the Departments of American Culture; Communication and Media\, Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC) and UM Initiative in Disability Studies. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/mara-mills-the-history-of-impairment/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230407T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230307T002407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T002603Z UID:3039-1680854400-1680976800@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Social Media and Society in India DESCRIPTION:How to Attend:This symposium will be held on April 7-8th\, 2023 9:00am-6pm. Participants are invited to attend in-person at 2435 North Quad or via livestream. For more details\, and a full list of speakers\, please visit: https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm All are welcome to attend the symposium. Please register in advance by filling out this form. About:Our third event on social media and society at the University of Michigan School of Information focuses on India and features a host of scholars and practitioners in person. The event presents 30+ speakers who will discuss the impact of social media on various aspects of Indian society from food and exercise to journalism and democratic rights.   This event is hosted by the School of Information\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC)\, the Center for South Asia Studies\, the John Seely Brown Technology & Society Lecture Fund\, the Martha Boaz Distinguished Lectureship Fund\, and the Digital Studies Institute. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/social-media-and-society-in-india/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230323T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230323T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230317T144810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230320T133800Z UID:3058-1679571000-1679576400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:A. Feder Cooper: Can Governance be Reconciled with Uncertainty in Machine Learning? Challenges and Opportunities Concerning Accountability and Variance DESCRIPTION:How to Participate: Participants are invited to attend in-person at 747 Weiser Hall. Advance registration is not required. Title:Can Governance be Reconciled with Uncertainty in Machine Learning? Challenges and Opportunities Concerning Accountability and Variance Abstract:\nArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) researchers are confronted daily with the reality that our field has become a stand-in in popular discourse for a variety of public anxieties\, political debates\, and metaphysical questions about human nature and intelligence. Among such weighty topics\, it can be easy to neglect the importance of low-level engineering decisions and infrastructure in AI/ML technology — the realities of implementing algorithms in code\, deploying systems at scale\, reckoning with computational resource constraints\, and numerous other empirical concerns that complicate theory (both statistical and legal) in practice. \nThis talk will explore how variance introduces arbitrariness into AI/ML\, which in turn complicates system reliability and concrete\, actionable notions of accountability. While the details of variance may seem mundane in comparison to debates about the essence of intelligence\, they are in fact responsible for powering the technology — intelligent or not — that is reshaping the contours of fundamental rights and institutions. This talk will clarify these connections by examining how variance is central to the function of AI/ML systems\, and moreover\, is inextricable from how these systems reproduce existing harms\, such as racial discrimination\, and bring about emergent behaviors that create novel problems for due process in the law. \nSpeaker: A. Feder Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University and Rising Star in EECS (MIT\, 2021)\, working at the interface of uncertainty\, reliability\, accountability\, and ethics in computing. Cooper researches empirically motivated\, theoretically grounded problems in Bayesian inference\, model selection\, and deep learning\, and has published numerous papers at top AI/ML conferences (e.g.\, NeurIPS and AISTATS). In bringing this work to bear on tech policy and ethics\, Cooper engages methods from the law and social sciences\, and has had work featured in interdisciplinary computing venues (e.g.\, FAccT) and tech law journals (e.g.\, Colorado Tech Law Journal). Much of this work has been recognized with spotlight and contributed talk awards.   This talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC) and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/a-feder-cooper-can-governance-be-reconciled-with-uncertainty-in-machine-learning-challenges-and-opportunities-concerning-accountability-and-variance/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230317T120000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230301T214929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T215212Z UID:3029-1679050800-1679054400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Adam Harvey: Tessier-Ashpool Distinguished Lecture on the Societal Implications of Artificial Intelligence DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend in-person at Rackham Amphitheatre (915 E Washington St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109) or virtually via Zoom. Registration for virtual participation or RSVP for in person participation required. \nPlease register to attend here: https://forms.gle/2xNZ8tjPFVpfnQ1V9\nSpeaker:Photo from: https://adam.harvey.studio/about/ Adam Harvey (US/DE) is an artist\, software engineer\, and applied researcher based in Berlin focused on computer vision\, privacy\, and surveillance technologies. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and Pennsylvania State University (2001). Harvey’s research and artwork has been featured in prominent media publications including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Nature\, New Yorker\, Frankfurter Allgemeine\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Washington Post\, Le Monde\, The Guardian\, BBC\, Economist\, and the Financial Times; and shown at internationally acclaimed institutions and events including the V&A museum (UK)\, Seoul Mediacity Biennale (KR)\, Istanbul Design Biennale (TK)\, Frankfurter Kunstverien (DE)\, Zeppelin Museum (DE)\, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (US)\, and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (US). Recently\, Harvey developed VFRAME\, a computer vision project for human rights researchers working on OSINT investigations. VFRAME received an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2019\, was nominated for the EU STARTS prize in 2018\, and nominated for a Beazley Design of The Year Award in 2019. The project is in active development and the latest research was presented at the 2021 Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining Mine Action Technology Workshop. Harvey has worked as a research fellow at the Künstlich Intelligenz und Medienphilosophie program at Karlsruhe HfG\, a digital fellow at the Weizenbaum Institut in Berlin working on exposing.ai\, a Future Fellow with the 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future at Eyebeam\, as part of research fellowship for the Copenhagen Business School\, and as an adjunct professor at New York University and School of Visual Arts in NYC. He currently works as an academic technologist and researcher for the Karlsruhe HfG AI Forensics project.   This talk is sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC) and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/adam-harvey-tessier-ashpool-distinguished-lecture-on-the-societal-implications-of-artificial-intelligence/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230314T133000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T225117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T120110Z UID:2924-1678795200-1678800600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Ruha Benjamin: Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want DESCRIPTION:How to ParticipateParticipants are invited to attend in-person at the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom\, 530 S State St\, or via Livestream. Registration is required.   Speaker Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a professor in the Department of African American studies at Princeton University. Professor Benjamin specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science\, medicine\, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social inequity. She is author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (Princeton University Press 2022)\, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity 2019)\, People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013)\, and editor of Captivating Technology: Race\, Carceral Technoscience\, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke University Press 2019)\, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Professor Benjamin received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College\, MA and PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley\, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Harvard University’s Science\, Technology\, and Society Program. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies\, National Science Foundation\, Ford Foundation\, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine\, and Institute for Advanced Study. In 2017\, she received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton and\, in 2020\, the Marguerite Casey Foundation Inaugural Freedom Scholar Award. In collaboration with partners across U-M\, the School of Public Health’s DEI Office is bringing Dr. Ruha Benjamin to campus for a talk and community conversation on March 14\, 2023. Trained as a sociologist\, Dr. Benjamin’s research sits at the intersection of science\, technology\, and medicine and resonates deeply with the field of Public Health. Dr. Benjamin will deliver a lecture on her new book\, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Viral Justice draws on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and amplified movements for racial justice and\, in doing so\, “offers a passionate\, inspiring\, and practical vision of how small changes can add up to large ones\, transforming our relationships and communities and helping us build a more just and joyful world.”   This event is the School of Public Health’s Winter 2023 DEI lecture\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC); School of Information (UMSI); Ross School of Business; Center for Education of Women (CEW+); Trotter Multicultural Center; Department of Sociology; Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Ford School of Public Policy; Department of Anthropology; and the Science\, Technology & Society program. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/ruha-benjamin-viral-justice-how-we-grow-the-world-we-want/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230313T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T225148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T204744Z UID:2922-1678712400-1678716000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Angèle Christin: Algorithms in Practice DESCRIPTION:How to Participate: This event will be live-streamed via Zoom\, registration is required. Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpce-uqj8tHNzgx4WLTgmUHOh17psOSDlZ Title:Algorithms in Practice Abstract:Technology evangelists often argue that algorithms and artificial intelligence make decision-making more informed and objective — a promise hotly contested by critics of these technologies. Yet\, to date\, most of the debate has focused on the instruments themselves\, rather than on how they are used. Against the rhetoric of algorithmic determinism that permeates Silicon Valley\, both among evangelists and critics\, I argue that it is essential to study how algorithmic technologies are used on the ground\, rather than merely how they are designed. I call this research program the study of “algorithms in practice.” Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork\, I compare how algorithms are used and interpreted in three institutional contexts with markedly different characteristics: online news; criminal justice; and social media creation. I conclude with a call for further ethnographic work on algorithms in practice as an important empirical check against the dominant rhetoric of computational power.   Speaker: Angèle Christin is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and affiliated faculty in the Sociology Department\, the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society\, and the Center for Work\, Technology\, and Organization at Stanford University. She studies how algorithms and analytics transform professional values\, expertise\, and work practices. Her award-winning book\, Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms (Princeton University Press\, 2020) focuses on the case of web journalism\, analyzing the growing importance of audience data in web newsrooms in the U.S. and France. Drawing on ethnographic methods\, Angèle shows how American and French journalists make sense of traffic numbers in different ways\, which in turn has distinct effects on the production of news in the two countries. She discussed it on the New Books Network podcast. In a related study\, she analyzed the construction\, institutionalization\, and reception of predictive algorithms in the U.S. criminal justice system\, building on her previous work on the determinants of criminal sentencing in French courts. Her new book project\, Follow Me: Influencers and the Contradictions of Platform Labor\, is an ethnographic study of content creators on social media platforms. The book examines the experiences of influencers as “platform laborers\,” whose work is dominated by digital platforms. Drawing on case studies ranging from vegan YouTubers to “dad” influencers and influencer marketers\, it shows how structural forces reproduce precarity and inequality in social media careers\, while also nudging influencers toward interpersonal “drama” and sometimes the production of problematic online content. Angèle received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and the EHESS (Paris). She is an affiliate at the Data & Society Research Institute\, the Center on Digital Culture and Society (University of Pennsylvania\, Annenberg School for Communication)\, and the Médialab (Sciences Po Paris).   This talk is sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC). ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/angele-christin/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230310T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T224640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230310T051808Z UID:2919-1678456800-1678462200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Jean-Damascène Gasanabo: Building the Gacaca Digital Archive DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend in-person at North Quad (105 S. State St\, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109)\, Room 2435 or via Zoom. Zoom Meeting ID: 929 9489 1820 (passcode: UMSI) About:After the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda\, more than 130\,000 inmates were imprisoned and accused of genocide crimes. The country was operating through fire and blood! The judicial system was destroyed – judges and lawyers had been killed or exiled in neighboring countries. To judge the genocidaires\, the government decided to reintroduce the Traditional Jurisdictions Courts called Gacaca. This talk will emphasize what Gacaca did as a court and how it worked during the trials; the digitization process of the 45 million pages of Gacaca files; and the impact of the Gacaca files on society after the digitization. Speaker:Jean-Damascène Gasanabo\, PhD Between March 2012 – October 2021\, Damas was Director General\, Research and Documentation Center on Genocide\, National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG)\, Kigali-Rwanda. This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information Data\, Archives\, and Information Seminar; African Studies Center; Museum Studies Program; Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing; and Franklin Innovator Residency Fund. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/jean-damascene-gasanabo-building-the-gacaca-digital-archive/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230220T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230220T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T210335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T131546Z UID:2917-1676892600-1676898000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Alex Taylor: Living a Larger Life Together DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend in-person at North Quad (105 S. State St\, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109)\, Room 2245. In-person RSVP. Hybrid participants can join via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92146665462 Zoom Password: misc23 About:I’ll use this talk to think in broader terms about technology’s impact on our lives and whether there’s a different way we can approach technology’s design. I want to ask the question: “are we thinking and doing well with technology and its design?” Through two examples\, I’ll invite us to reflect on some of the core tenets in technology and design\, ideas like human centredness\, mediation and augmentation. I’ll propose such tenants are now limiting our imaginations. They have us narrowing our attention and reinforcing a utilitarian individualism. They leave little space for a design open to the always entangled interplay between human and nonhuman actors\, or for questions about the structural arrangements that value (or devalue) capacities for being and acting in the world. I’ll argue that there is an alternative\, much more generative way of thinking about technology and its design\, one committed to capacities that are always in relation with others and always becoming. This is an expansive idea of capacities that recognizes the correspondences\, interdependencies\, continual attunements and co-makings between diverse human and nonhuman actors. It is to ask what it might be to create the conditions for more to happen\, what a design would look like that holds open the space for relations to proliferate and much more varied forms of life to come into being. This\, I want to propose\, is an alternative that is full with the hope of living a larger life together. Speaker:   Alex Taylor is a sociologist working in the Centre for Human Centred Design\, at City\, University of London. Showing a broad fascination for the entanglements between social life and machines\, his research ranges from empirical studies of technology in everyday life to speculative design interventions—both large and small. Across these realms\, he draws on a feminist technoscience to ask questions about the co-constitutive roles human-machine composites play in forms of knowing and being\, and how they might open up possibilities for fundamental transformations in society. Most recently\, he’s begun to wonder about the abilities of humans and non-humans\, together\, and to speculate on hybrid compositions that enlarge capacity and offer the chance of something different\, something more. This event is hosted by the Michigan Interactive and Social Computing group (MISC)\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/alex-taylor-living-a-larger-life-together/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230217T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T204440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T185158Z UID:2912-1676651400-1676656800@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Sahana Udupa: Digital Influencers and the Business of "Data Tested" Campaigns in India DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend in-person at Weiser Hall\, Room 110. More information can be found here: https://events.umich.edu/event/101422 About:This talk will delve into the narratives and strategies of a new class of political consultants and the divergent practices of election influencers in India\, to propose “shadow politics” as a digitally mediated structure of election campaigning. Highlighting the specificity of shadow politics in terms of “data centricism” and the dual structure of official-unofficial campaign streams\, I will discuss how disinformation and extreme speech production is intricately linked to the logics of political marketing and growing uptake for digital tools that define the evolving spaces of commercial political consultancy. Theoretically positioning “shadow politics” in relation to distinctive mass political cultures of South Asia discussed in postcolonial scholarship\, I will conclude by highlighting policy directions for disinformation regulation. Speaker: Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU) and Principal Investigator of the For Digital Dignity Research Network. Her latest publications include the co-authored monograph\, Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (New York University Press\, with E. G. Dattatreyan)\, and co-edited volume\, Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech (Indiana University Press). She is the recipient of Joan Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School\, Francqui Chair (Belgium) and European Research Council Grant Awards.   This event is part of the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) lecture series\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/sahana-udupa-digital-influencers-and-the-business-of-data-tested-campaigns-in-india/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230209T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T203755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T152354Z UID:2908-1675933200-1675963800@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Data Justice\, AI\, and Design Colloquium DESCRIPTION:How to Attend:This event will be held on February 9th\, 2023 9:00am-5:30pm. Participants are invited to attend in-person at A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons. More details can be found here:\nhttps://midas.umich.edu/data-justice-and-design/ All are welcome to attend the colloquium. No registration in advance is required. About:In the rapidly emerging field of design aided by neural networks\, one question seldom emerges: where does the data come from? This colloquium\, presented by MIDAS\, AR²IL\, Taubman College\, and ESC\, brings together experts in architecture\, data science\, and AI to discuss an equitable and inclusive approach to data harvesting for design. The goal of this colloquium is to explore the current status of the use of data in ML approaches in design and critically interrogate the methods of creation – in particular\, exploring the implementation of data justice. It is the perfect moment to do this\, before it is too late and the common creation of datasets for design is executed without consideration of the ethical implications of racial bias in data for architecture design. The discussion and debate between these speakers will generate new insight and new knowledge that might help in the further development of AI and design. Speakers:Morning Sessions\nSESSION 1: A Ground Truth in Data Justice (9:30AM-10:50AM)\nChair: Matias del Campo is the co-founder of the architecture practice SPAN. The practice gained wide recognition for the design of the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and\, more recently\, for the Robot Garden at the Ford Robotics Building. SPAN’s work was featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 and 2021\, at ArchiLab in 2013\, and at the Architecture Biennale in Vienna and Buenos Aires in 2019. Solo shows include ‘Formations’ (MAK\, Vienna) and ‘Sublime Bodies’ (Fab Union\, Shanghai). SPAN’s work is in the permanent collection of the FRAC\, the MAK\, the Benetton Collection\, the Albertina\, the Pinakothek Munich\, and several private collections. His publishing work includes two editions of AD – Evoking through Design and Machine Hallucinations (co-edited with Neil Leach) as well as the books Neural Architecture – Design and Artificial Intelligence (ORO Editions 2022) and Sublime Bodies (co-authored with Sandra Manninger\, Tongji Press 2017).   Speakers: Jose Sanchez is an Architect\, Game Designer\, and Theorist based in Detroit\, Michigan. He is the director of the Plethora Project\, a research studio investing in the future of the propagation of architectural design knowledge. He is the creator of the video games Block’hood and Common’hood\, digital social platforms that aid the authoring of architectural and ecological thinking to non-expert audiences. He is the author of the book “Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms” published by Routledge in 2020 and the co-creator of Bloom\, a crowdsourced interactive installation which was the winner of the Wonder Series hosted by the City of London for the 2012 Olympics. He has taught in renowned institutions in the United States and in Europe\, including the Architectural Association in London\, The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London\, at the University of Southern California. He is currently at the University of Michigan\, where he is an Associate Professor at the Taubman College School of Architecture. His research “Architecture for the Commons” designs and interrogates social media platforms as tools with the potential to author architectural content in the public domain.   Catherine Griffiths is a media artist\, designer\, and researcher exploring critical code and algorithmic aesthetics in the context of machine learning ethics. By creating simulations\, short films\, and software applications\, her hybrid practice-theory-based creative research attempts to make palpable invisible computational forces that shape power and social dynamics. Drawing on the legacy of generative art\, the recent rise in artificial intelligence\, and critical theory\, she seeks to contribute to an emerging arts knowledge. As an Annenberg Fellow\, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Media Arts at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She received her MArch in Architectural Design from The Bartlett\, University College London\, and her BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College\, University of the Arts London. Her research has been exhibited in the Centre Pompidou\, Paris\, and published in the Journal of Digital Culture and Society and the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. Today she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan with a joint appointment between Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Digital Studies Institute.   Shelby Elizabeth Doyle\, AIA is a registered architect and Associate Professor of Architecture where she is the Stan G. Thurston Professor of Design Build at Iowa State University College of Design\, co-founder of the ISU Computation & Construction Lab (CCL)\, and director of the ISU Architectural Robotics Lab (ARL). The CCL and ARL the result of Doyle’s ISU Presidential Impact Hire to rethink digital fabrication and design-build. The CCL works to connect developments in computation to the challenges of construction: through teaching\, research\, and outreach. The central hypothesis of CCL and Doyle’s work is that computation in architecture is a material\, pedagogical\, and social project; computation is both informed by and productive of architectural cultures. This hypothesis is explored\, through the fabrication of built projects and materialized in computational practices. The CCL is invested in questioning the role of education and pedagogy in replicating existing technological inequities\, and in pursuing the potential for technology in architecture as a space of\, and for\, gender equity.   SESSION 2: Artificial Intelligence vs Design Intelligence (11:20AM-12:40PM) Chair: McLain Clutter is an associate professor and chair of the architecture program at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. As an architect\, Clutter’s work focuses on the role of architecture within the multidisciplinary milieu of contemporary urbanism\, and the interrelations between architecture and media culture. His work has been featured in Grey Room\, Thresholds\, MONU\, 306090\, the Journal of Architectural Education\, Plat\, The Avery Review\, ARPA Journal\, the edited volume Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Cities\, and other publications. He has exhibited work in international venues\, including the 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen\, the Architecture League of New York\, Materials & Applications in Los Angeles\, and others. Clutter’s design and research has been awarded an Architect Magazine R+D Award in 2015\, ACSA Faculty Design Awards in 2015 and 2018\, and other honors. His research has received support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Clutter’s book\, Imaginary Apparatus: New York City and its Mediated Representation was published by Park Books in 2015. He is a Registered Architect in the state of Michigan\, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Architectural Education. Clutter received a B.Arch from Syracuse University and an MED from the Yale School of Architecture\, where he was the recipient of the Everett Victor Meeks Fellowship. Prior to arriving at Taubman College\, Clutter practiced in offices in New York and Chicago\, working on projects ranging in scale from residential renovations to campus master planning. He is a partner in the Ann Arbor based design practice EXTENTS\, with Cyrus Peñarroyo.   Speakers: Molly Wright Steenson is a historian of design\, architecture\, and the history of those concepts alongside cybernetics and artificial intelligence. Her current research focuses on the idea of artificial intelligence and how it’s viewed and portrayed in contemporary media and culture. She argues that our ideas of artificial intelligence are outdated and this inhibits peoples’ ability to understand what it really is. Her book Architectural Intelligence: How Designers & Architects Created the Digital Landscape\, published with Graham Foundation support\, combines “an architectural history of interactivity and an interactive history of architecture.” Steenson holds a PhD in Architecture from Princeton University\, a Master’s in Environmental Design from Yale School of Architecture\, and a BA in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   Sarah Fox is an Assistant Professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University\, where she directs the Tech Solidarity Lab. Her research examines how technological artifacts challenge or propagate social exclusions. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Centered Design & Engineering from the University of Washington.   Mingyan Liu is an electrical engineering and computer science professor\, and the Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI. Her research is in optimal resource allocation\, sequential decision theory\, incentive design\, online learning\, and modeling and mining of large scale Internet measurement data concerning cyber security. She was a co-founder of the cybersecurity scoring startup Quadmetrics in 2014. Quadmetrics was named a “2016 Cool Vendor in Risk Management” by Gartner\, and was acquired by FICO in 2016.   Afternoon Sessions\nSESSION 3: Games\, Art and the Ethics of Data (2PM-3:20PM)\nChair: Kathy Velikov is a licensed Architect and founding partner of the research-based practice rvtr (www.rvtr.com)\, and the former President of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). Her work investigates and experiments with the intertwinements across architecture\, the environment\, technology\, and sociopolitics through design methods that mobilize systems-based approaches and computational design. Her work ranges from material prototypes that explore environment-aware behavioral building skin assemblies\, to high-performance building design\, to research on urbanism\, infrastructure\, and territorial practices explored through techniques of mapping and analysis\, speculative design propositions\, installations\, and writing. She is co-editor of Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural (Actar\, 2022) and co-author of Infra Eco Logi Urbanism (Park Books\, 2015). Honors include the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award (2020)\, the Technology + Architecture Design (TAD) Journal Research Contribution Award (2020)\, two R&D Awards from Architecture Magazine (2010\, 2016)\, a Journal of Architectural Education Best Design as Research Article (2013)\, the Architizer A+ Award Program’s Architecture + Sound Jury Award (2013)\, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Faculty Design Award (2012\, 2014)\, a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Award of Excellence for Innovation in the Practice of Architecture (2011)\, the Canadian Professional Prix de Rome (2009)\, the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architect’s Forum Award (2008)\, and the Oberdick Fellowship at Taubman College (2006-07). Kathy received her professional degree from the University of Waterloo and masters from the University of Toronto.   Speakers: Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto-based scholar\, composer\, and artist. His eclectic body of work includes writings about sound\, metaphors\, animals\, and media technologies; scores for film and dance; and objects and installations that trouble received ideas about history\, perception\, and sensory experience. He holds a PhD in communications from McGill University and an MFA from Concordia University and is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture\, Landscape\, and Design at the University of Toronto.   Matias del Campo is the co-founder of the architecture practice SPAN. The practice gained wide recognition for the design of the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and\, more recently\, for the Robot Garden at the Ford Robotics Building. SPAN’s work was featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 and 2021\, at ArchiLab in 2013\, and at the Architecture Biennale in Vienna and Buenos Aires in 2019. Solo shows include ‘Formations’ (MAK\, Vienna) and ‘Sublime Bodies’ (Fab Union\, Shanghai). SPAN’s work is in the permanent collection of the FRAC\, the MAK\, the Benetton Collection\, the Albertina\, the Pinakothek Munich\, and several private collections. His publishing work includes two editions of AD – Evoking through Design and Machine Hallucinations (co-edited with Neil Leach) as well as the books Neural Architecture – Design and Artificial Intelligence (ORO Editions 2022) and Sublime Bodies (co-authored with Sandra Manninger\, Tongji Press 2017).   Leah Wulfman is a Carrier Bag architect\, educator\, game designer\, digital puppeteer\, and occasional writer. Trained as an architect\, Wulfman has been assembling hybrid virtual and physical spaces in order to prototype new relationships to technology and nature\, as well as challenge normative ideologies so often reinforced by technology and architecture. In addition to mixed reality installations that play with and emphasize the physical\, material basis of everything digital\, they are presently working on a research series focusing on gamified environments\, interactions and materials—traversing a variety of themes like ‘Deep Unlearning\,’ Stone Soupercomputers\, GamerGirl Bath Water\, and our potential interactions with a Jacaranda Tree in full bloom witnessed through Google Earth. Wulfman holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University\, as well as a Masters of Arts in Liam Young’s Fiction and Entertainment program at SCI-Arc. They have taught at numerous institutions in the United States\, including SCI-Arc\, ArtCenter’s Media Design Practices Graduate Program\, IDEAS Program at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design\, and The School of Architecture at Taliesin\, where they have developed youth programming and mixed reality coursework. Wulfman’s work experience can be likened to playing musical chairs\, with collaborative projects presently underway with Studio Elana Schlenker as well as the LA-based artist Lauren Halsey. Their research and design work has been supported by numerous residencies and publications\, and has been shown as part of various exhibitions and festivals\, including Tbilisi Architecture Biennial\, The FiDi Arsenale\, Space Saloon Design and Build Festival\, Open Engagement\, VIA Festival for Electronic Art and Music\, A Queer Query\, and The Wrong Biennale for New Digital Art. Leah is now at the University of Michigan\, where they are currently the Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the Taubman College School of Architecture.   SESSION 4: Final Roundtable (3:40PM-5:30PM)   This event is hosted by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC)\, Taubman College\, and AR²IL. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/data-justice-ai-and-design-colloquium/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230203T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230203T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230110T202901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T232424Z UID:2904-1675423800-1675429200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Caroline Sinders: Using Design and Art to Create Equitable AI DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:Participants are invited to attend in-person at North Quad Space 2435 or virtually via Zoom. Registration for virtual participation or RSVP for in person participation required. \nPlease register to attend online via Zoom\nPlease RSVP to attend in-person (for catering)\nTitle:Using Design and Art to Create Equitable AI Speaker: Caroline Sinders is an award winning critical designer\, researcher\, and artist. She’s the founder of human rights and design lab\, Convocation Research + Design. For the past few years\, she has been examining the intersections of artificial intelligence\, intersectional justice\, systems design\, harm\, and politics in digital conversational spaces and technology platforms. She has worked with the United Nations\, Amnesty International\, IBM Watson\, the Wikimedia Foundation\, and others. Sinders has held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School\, Google’s PAIR (People and Artificial Intelligence Research group)\, Ars Electronica’s AI Lab\, the Weizenbaum Institute\, the Mozilla Foundation\, Pioneer Works\, Eyebeam\, Ars Electronica\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, the Sci Art Resonances program with the European Commission\, and the International Center of Photography. Her work has been featured in the Tate Exchange in Tate Modern\, the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans\, Telematic Media Arts\, Victoria and Albert Museum\, MoMA PS1\, LABoral\, Wired\, Slate\, Hyperallergic\, Clot Magazine\, Quartz\, the Channels Festival\, and others. Sinders holds a Masters from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. She’s been named by Forbes as an AI Designer to Watch in 2017\, won the bronze award for Webby’s Anthem Award’s responsible technology category for a toolkit she created for technologists and community organizers for how to hold safe and caring events during COVID19\, shortlisted for a Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award in the Social Good Category for a product she lead design on\, and she has provided insights\, critique and feedback to internationally regulatory bodies such as the ICO and FTC on technology\, design\, digital harm\, and policy.  Her artwork on disinformation has been described “work [that] helps us better understand how easily visual culture contributes to their credibility” by Hyperallergic. Caroline is currently based between London\, UK and New Orleans\, USA.   This talk is sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing (ESC). ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/caroline-sinders-using-design-and-art-to-create-equitable-ai/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20230109T212452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T181214Z UID:2902-1675105200-1675112400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Watch Party: Office Space DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEParticipants are invited to attend virtually. Registration for virtual participation is required and can be found here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-irqzsqGtKJFC_vAaefWPBgG9XBpkYl DETAILSESC is holding a virtual movie night\, showing 90s classic: Office Space (1999)!  Prizes will be up for grabs as we play Office Space bingo. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-watch-party-office-space/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220922T150145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T171426Z UID:2837-1668168000-1668171600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:How To Say No To Tech -- With Erhardt Graeff\, Alex Hanna & Dawn Nafus DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEThis event will be live-streamed via Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91304715274?pwd=Qm1iL1psd3dHdW1EdTQ3RDV2TkUyUT09 (Passcode: ESC).  Registration is not required. AboutStudents commonly ask us\, “I want to work in the tech industry\, but I care about ethics. What do I do if I’m faced with an unethical design?” This panel brings together people from industry and academia who are thinking about this question.   Panelists  Dr. Erhardt Graeff is an educator\, social scientist\, and public interest technologist. He works on the design and use of technology for civic engagement\, civic learning\, and social justice\, and on the ethical responsibility of technologists as stewards of democracy. His current research is on articulating the responsibilities of engineers as citizens\, developing new forms of civic education within undergraduate engineering\, and community-engaged collaborative data science to help organizations fighting mass incarceration. His pedagogy is organized around creating spaces for student-owned and -led public interest technology projects. Erhardt is an Assistant Professor of Social and Computer Science and Interim Director of the Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship program at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and a faculty associate at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Dr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training\, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies\, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial\, gender\, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements\, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. Dr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences\, including the journals Mobilization\, American Behavioral Scientist\, and Big Data & Society\, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW\, FAccT\, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves as a co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice\, as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies\, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. FastCompany included Dr. Hanna as part of their 2021 Queer 50\, and she has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit\, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University\, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   Dr. Dawn Nafus is an anthropologist and senior research scientist at Intel Labs\, where she leads research that enables Intel to make socially-informed decisions about its products. Her previous work examined health and environmental sensing\, and the relationship between ethnography and data science. Her current work examines AI and climate change\, with an emphasis on the changing infrastructures of computation. She is the editor of Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life (MIT Press\, 2016)\, co-author of Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and co-editor of Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World (Manchester University Press\, 2018). She speaks on these topics at a wide variety of technology\, policy\, and academic venues\, including SXSW\, the OECD\, and the National Academy of Sciences. She served as Program Co-Chair for the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) 2018 and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.   ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/say-no-to-tech-panel/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220915T035948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T224903Z UID:2811-1667923200-1667928600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Carolyn Chen: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:To register: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsfu2qqDIrGNHoT4OcWoRemvF4MG2dQ5we   AboutCarolyn Chen (Comparative Ethnic Studies\, Berkeley) will be in conversation with Melissa Borja (American Culture & A/PIA Studies\, UM) about her recent book\, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies in Silicon Valley are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship\, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.   This event is part of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Fall Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/carolyn-chen-work-pray-code-when-work-becomes-religion-in-silicon-valley/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220914T171510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T155308Z UID:2809-1667836800-1667842200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Natasha Schüll: Compass to Sentinel: The Automation of Self-tracking Technology DESCRIPTION:About:\nThis talk draws on ethnographic fieldwork to argue that a shift is underway in the logic of behavioral guidance informing the design and use of so-called self-tracking technology\, or apps\, and wearable devices that sense\, record\, and analyze users’ data. While first-wave self-tracking technologies were designed to serve as digital compasses that could provide attentive selves with information to help them navigate the choice-filled seas of modern life\, newer technologies are designed to serve as sentinels that can stand watch for distracted and overwhelmed selves\, providing just-in-time micronudges to keep them on track. \nSpeaker:\nNatasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and associate professor in the department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. She is the author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (2012)\, an ethnographic exploration of the relationship between technology design and the experience of addiction. Her current book project\, Keeping Track (forthcoming)\, concerns the rise of digital self-tracking technologies and the new modes of introspection and self-governance they engender. She has published numerous articles on the theme of digital media and subjectivity\, and her research has been featured in such national media venues as 60 Minutes\, The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Financial Times\, and The Atlantic. \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Science\, Technology & Society Program (STS)\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society & Computing (ESC). \n  URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/natasha-schull-compass-to-sentinel-the-automation-of-self-tracking-technology/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221003T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221003T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220914T163811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T165706Z UID:2795-1664812800-1664816400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Kade Crockford: A Conversation about Technology\, Surveillance\, and Civil Liberties DESCRIPTION:How to Participate  Registration is encouraged for “A conversation with Kade Crockford about technology\, surveillance\, and civil liberties” on Monday\, October 3\, 4:00 PM\, but not required. All attendees are strongly encouraged to wear masks during the event. Campus guests are expected to complete ResponsiBLUE Guest\, the daily COVID-19 symptom check tool\, prior to accessing campus buildings. There will also be a livestream of the event. Location: 1110 Weill Hall (Betty Ford Classroom)\, 735 South State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 About  The Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy program (STPP) is honored to discuss technology\, surveillance and civil liberties with Kade Crockford\, the director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Kade works on issues at the intersection of technology and civil rights and civil liberties\, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just the society in general but their primary targets—people of color\, Muslims\, immigrants\, and dissidents. Recently\, Kade led the ACLU of Massachusetts’ “Press Pause on Face Surveillance” campaign\, which has thus far won the passage of a state law regulating police use of facial recognition\, and eight municipal bans on government use of face surveillance technology\, including in Massachusetts’ four largest cities.   This event is part of the Science\, Technology and Public Policy (STPP) Lecture Series\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC); Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse; Arab and Muslim American Studies; and Science\, Technology & Society program. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/kade-crockford-a-conversation-about-technology-surveillance-and-civil-liberties/ LOCATION:1110 Weill Hall\, 735 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220930T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221001T160000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220914T151149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T154841Z UID:2746-1664530200-1664640000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Algorithmic Reparation Workshop DESCRIPTION:ABOUT:  Machine learning has an inequality problem that is now widespread and well known. The field of “fair machine learning” (FML) has emerged in response\, positing mathematical correctives to account for and remove direct and proxy indicators of protected class attributes–race\, class\, gender\, disability etc–within machine learning models. Although FML predominates and continues to thrive\, its effects have been wanting\, and thinkers are beginning to challenge the “fairness” value standard (Birhane and Guest 2020; Bui and Noble 2020; Davis et al. 2021; Hanna et al. 2020; Hoffmann 2019; Mohamed et al. 2020; So et al. 2022). Fairness models seek to erase demographic differences and achieve unbiased outputs. Such aspirational neutrality is intrinsically flawed\, ignoring the ways history\, identity\, and social systems entwine. In this way\, “fairness” approximates colorblind racism and its gendered\, heteronormative\, and ableist cousins. Algorithmic Reparation is a response and alternative to FML\, one that centralizes rather than obviates levers of inequality in machine learning systems. Rooted in theories of Intersectionality (Cho et al. 2013; Crenshaw 1990; Collins 2002\, 2019) and movements for reparation (Bittker\, 1972; Coates\, 2014; Henry\, 2009)\, this approach is committed to empowerment at the margins and systemic redress. First introduced in an article published by Big Data & Society (Davis\, Williams and Yang 2021)\, we invite participants to begin actioning algorithmic reparation in a 2-day workshop at the University of Michigan\, September 30-October 1\, 2022. \n PANELISTS:    UNC Chapel Hill\, School of Law Ifeoma Ajunwa (@iajunwa) joined Carolina Law in January of 2021 as an Associate Professor of Law with tenure. She is also the Founding Director of the AI Decision-Making Research Program. Professor Ajunwa has been Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School since 2017. Professor Ajunwa’s work is published or forthcoming in high impact factor law reviews of general interest as well as\, the top law journals for specialty areas such as: anti-discrimination law (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review)\, employment and labor law (Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law)\, and law and technology (Harvard Journal of Law and Technology). She has published op-eds in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, etc.\, and her research has been featured in major media outlets such as the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, Guardian\, the BBC\, NPR\, etc. In 2020\, she testified before the U.S. Congressional Committee on Education and Labor\, and has spoken before governmental agencies\, such as\, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB)\, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC).   Harvard University\, Cyber Law Clinic Kendra Albert (@KendraSerra) is a public interest technology lawyer with a special interest in computer security law and freedom of expression. They serve as a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School\, where they teach students to practice law by working with pro bono clients. Kendra is also the founder and director of the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment. They serve on the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts and the Tor Project\, and provide support as a legal advisor for Hacking // Hustling. In their free time\, Kendra enjoys giving away other people’s money\, playing video games\, and making people in power uncomfortable.   University of Michigan\, Computer Science & Engineering Anhong Guo (@AnhongGuo) is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. Anhong completed his Ph.D. in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute\, Carnegie Mellon University. He is also an inaugural Snap Inc. Research Fellow\, a Swartz Innovation Fellow for Entrepreneurship\, and a Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Scientist. Anhong has published in many top academic conferences and journals on interface technologies\, wearable computing\, accessibility and computer vision. Before CMU\, he received his Master’s in HCI from Georgia Tech\, and Bachelor’s in Electronic Information Engineering from BUPT. He has also worked in the Ability and Intelligent User Experiences groups in Microsoft Research\, the HCI group of Snap Research\, the Accessibility Engineering team at Google\, and the Mobile Innovation Center of SAP America.   Carceral Tech Resistance Network Sarah T. Hamid (@tsnvaa) is an abolitionist and organizer working in the Pacific Northwest. She leads the policing technology campaign at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network\, an archiving and knowledge-sharing network for organizers building community defense against the design\, roll-out\, and experimentation of carceral technologies. Sarah co-founded the inside/outside research collaboration\, the Prison Tech Research Group\, sits on the board of the Lucy Parsons Lab in Chicago\, and helped create the #8toAbolitioncampaign: a police and prison abolition resource built during the 2020 uprisings against state violence.   Distributed AI Research Institute/DAIR Dr. Alex Hanna (@alexhanna) is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training\, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies\, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial\, gender\, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements\, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. Dr. Hanna has published widely in top-tier venues across the social sciences\, including the journals Mobilization\, American Behavioral Scientist\, and Big Data & Society\, and top-tier computer science conferences such as CSCW\, FAccT\, and NeurIPS. Dr. Hanna serves as a co-chair of Sociologists for Trans Justice\, as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies\, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and the Scholars Council for the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. FastCompany included Dr. Hanna as part of their 2021 Queer 50\, and she has been featured in the Cal Academy of Sciences New Science exhibit\, which highlights queer and trans scientists of color. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and a BA in Sociology from Purdue University\, and an MS and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   University of Washington\, Information School Anna Lauren Hoffmann (@annaeveryday) is currently an Assistant Professor with The Information School at the University of Washington where she is also co-founder and co-director of the UW iSchool’s AfterLab. She is also a senior fellow with the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and affiliate faculty with the UW iSchool’s DataLab. Prior to joining the UW iSchool\, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and received her PhD from the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Hoffmann’s work has appeared in academic venues like New Media & Society\, Review of Communication\, JASIST\, and Information\, Communication\, and Society and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. In addition\, her public writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Slate\, The Seattle Times\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Seattle\, WA with her wife and two kids.   AI for the People Mutale Nkonde (@Mutalenkonde) started her career as a broadcast journalist before transitioning into the world of tech. She currently sits on the Tik Tok Content Moderation Advisory Board\, advises the Center of Media\, Technology and Democracy at McGill University and is a key constituent for the UN 3C Table on AI. Now she is the founding director of AI for the People\, a non profit communications firm that uses journalism\, arts and culture to advance racial justice in tech. In 2021 AI for the People launched their biometric justice vertical by producing a film supporting a ban of facial recognition in New York State\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, watch it here. Nkonde writes widely on racial impacts of advanced technical systems\, is a widely sought after media commentator and seeks to create a safe space for Black technologists who feel marginalized within the wider tech sector. She also led a team that introduced the Algorithm and Deepfakes Accountability Acts and the No Biometric Barriers Act to the US House of Representatives in 2019. Belfar Center for Science and International Affairs Afsaneh Rigot is an analyst\, researcher\, and advocate covering issues of law\, technology\, LGBTQ\, refugee\, and human rights. She is also a senior researcher at ARTICLE 19 focusing on the Middle East and North African (MENA) human rights issues and international corporate responsibility and a 2020-2021 fellow at the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is also an advisor at the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard. Her broader work and her research pose questions about the effects of technology in contexts it was not designed for and the effects of western-centrism on vulnerable and/or hard-to-reach communities. It also looks at how the power-holding corporations can be constructively engaged with. At ARTICLE 19\, Afsaneh continues to lead cross-country research on the impact of technology on LGBTQ people in the MENA uncovering how police and states use technology to target\, harass and arrest the community based on their identity. Independently\, she has conducted the first research on the use of digital evidence and legal frameworks in the prosecution of LGBTQ people in courts: Digital Crime Scenes: The Role of Digital Evidence in the Persecution of LGBTQ People in Egypt\, Lebanon and Tunisia. This report covers the role of technology companies and builders and how tech can be build to mitigate these human rights abuses. During her TAPP fellowship\, Afsaneh developed the first iteration of her methodology and concept using experiences and knowledge in implementing company change with those most impacted-centered. Design From the Margins report (DFM)\, outlines a design process that centers the most impacted and marginalized users from ideation to production\, pushes the notion that not only is this something that can and must be done\, but also that it is highly beneficial for all users and companies.   This event is co-hosted by the Digital Studies Institute and the Center for Ethics\, Society\, & Computing at the University of Michigan\, the Humanising Machine Intelligence Project at the Australian National University\, and the Tech Ethics Center at the University of Notre Dame\, the workshop will combine efforts from social scientists\, computer scientists\, activist leaders\, and industry representatives. The workshop includes invited panel presentations and hands-on exercises\, featuring Algowritten \, TheirTube\, and others\, that attend to machine learning across domains and within social and institutional contexts. Co-Directors: Apryl Williams (aprylw@umich.edu)\, Jenny Davis (jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au) URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/algorithmic-reparation-workshop/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220929T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220930T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220914T154032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T161731Z UID:2782-1664454600-1664546400@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Datatopia: The Future of Scientific Discovery Through a Data Lens DESCRIPTION:How to Participate:  Colloquium Public Lectures: Sept 29\, 12:30 PM – 5:15 PM\nWolverine Room\, Michigan Union No registration is required for Colloquium Public Lectures.   Faculty Conversation Laboratory: Sept 30\, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM\nClark Maps Library\, 2nd Floor\, Hatcher Graduate Library Building Register for the Conversation Library. The Conversation Laboratory is intended for faculty and researchers to collaborate and share ideas in a professional setting\, and are not open to the general public.Capacity is limited to 30 attendees. When the attendee roster is finalized\, MIDAS will inform each registrant via email. For more details about the Conversation Laboratory\, visit the Datatopia Colloquium webpage.   About:  \n\nData science is advancing scientific discovery in multiple ways\, from protein folding to galaxy formation. Furthermore\, it evidences the social mechanisms within scientific institutions more apt for innovation. To what extent\, then\, can data science elicit a radical restructuring of scientific practice? Can we harness its full potential? In this colloquium we will explore the promises data science has for scientific inquiry while also taking a critical view on the processes of science-making and data extraction\, analysis and implementation. Join us to engage with the data science of science and the science of data science through workshops and an afternoon of talks by guest speakers. \n  \n\n\nSpeakers:\n  \n \n\n\n\n\nKaty Börner\, professor of information science at Indiana University in Bloomington\, uses visualization techniques to study the structure of scientific ontologies and the systems through which scientific collaboration is carried out. Professor Börner is the curator of Places and Spaces: Mapping Science\, a comprehensive exhibit mapping ideas\, organizations\, and infrastructures in science and technology. \nThe Places and Spaces exhibit can be viewed in the Clark Maps Library on the second floor of Hatcher Graduate Library for a limited time! \n  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nNick Couldry (Professor of Media\, Communications\, and Social Theory at the London School of Economics)\, and Ulises Mejias (Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego) are the authors of The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Colonization. \nIn their work they study the harms in data extraction and datafication\, and through the Tierra Común network engage with communities\, academics\, and activists to reclaim data for a socially aware and ethical purpose. Tierra Común brings together activists\, citizens and scholars who want data to be decolonized and rejects data colonialism as the latest manifestation in modernity of the Global North’s desire for domination. \n\n  \n \nJacob Foster\, associate professor of Sociology at UCLA\, studies knowledge production from a computational viewpoint. His interests span collective intelligence\, the adoption of ideas\, the conditions that produce innovation in science\, and the cultural dynamics around the creation and use of technological objects. He is the Co-Director of the Diverse Intelligences Summer institute\, a program for academic exploration on all forms of social\, biological\, and artificial intelligence. \n  \n\n \nÁgnes Horvát is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern in the Department of Communication Studies\, (by courtesy) the Computer Science Department of the McCormick School of Engineering\, and (also by courtesy) the Department of Management and Organizations of the Kellogg School of Management. Her research seeks to measure\, understand\, and forecast the collective behaviour of networked crowds in large-scale socio-technical systems. \n\n  \nThis event is being organized by: \n\n\n\n\n\nefrén cruz cortés\, Michigan Data Science Fellow & Lecturer in Complex Systems\nElyse Thulin\, Michigan Data Science Fellow & Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Psychiatry\nBernardo Modenesi\, Rocket Companies Michigan Data Science Fellow\nShane Redman\, Senior Scientist\, MIDAS\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC). URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/datatopia-the-future-of-scientific-discovery-through-a-data-lens/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220922T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220916T230905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T145930Z UID:2817-1663866000-1663873200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Mixer: Take Back the $wag DESCRIPTION:  We’re hosting a swag drive! ESC $WAG is an ongoing art project that examines the ethics of corporate tech swag\, which is often cheaply made using unethical labor practices and frequently ends up in the trash. We invite ESC-affiliated faculty and student researchers to contribute to the ESC $WAG project by donating any corporate tech swag they own and would like to get rid of. T-shirts\, sweatshirts\, baseball caps\, beanies\, mugs\, water bottles\, USB drives – we’ll take it all!   Join us for the *swag drive and a fun mixer at: Ann Arbor Distilling Company 5:00 – 7:00 PM\, Thursday\, September 22 *Donation not required to attend Patio\, Snacks\, and Drinks Please RSVP by Wednesday\, September 21  Masks required when entering the building and approaching venue staff. ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-mixer-take-back-the-wag/ LOCATION:Ann Arbor Distilling\, 220 Felch St\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, 48103\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220909T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220909T150000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220906T230943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T140319Z UID:2728-1662730200-1662735600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Lecture: Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:  Zoom information located here: https://www.icos.umich.edu/node/809   Abstract: “There is broad consensus in the US that monopolistic corporations have grown too powerful and that we need to revive antitrust to take on the “curse of bigness.” But information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the operations of our economy in ways that undermine the basic categories we use to understand it. Nationality\, industry\, firm\, size\, employee\, and other fundamental terms are increasingly perplexing. If we want to understand and tame the new sources of economic power\, we need a new diagnosis and a new set of tools.” About the Speaker: \n\n\n“Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology\, The University of Michigan. Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His books include Social Movements and Organization Theory (with Doug McAdam\, W. Richard Scott\, and Mayer N. Zald; Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, Organizations and Organizing: Rational\, Natural\, and Open System Perspectives (with W. Richard Scott; Pearson Prentice Hall\, 2007)\, Managed By the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, Changing your Company from the Inside Out: A Guide for Social Intrapreneurs (with Chris White\, Harvard Business Review Press\, 2015)\, and The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy (Berrett-Koehler\, 2016). His latest book is Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century. Davis has published widely in management\, sociology\, and finance. \nDavis’s research is broadly concerned with the corporation as a social and economic vehicle. Recent writings examine why corporations have so little insight into their global supply chains and the moral dilemmas this poses; why the social network of corporate elites has fallen apart; what organizational alternative exist to the shareholder-owned corporation; how national institutions shape corporate structures\, and what this means for income inequality; how platform capitalism might be tamed to meet human needs other than profit; how management research might help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals; how new technologies have enabled worker political activism within the corporation; how social scientists can inform public opinion; and how information and communication technologies have enabled entirely new designs for economic organization. His current book project examines corporate power in the 21st century\, and how to tame it.” URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/lecture-taming-corporate-power-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:R0240\, Ross School of Business\, Lower Level\, 701 Tappan Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220525T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220525T193000 DTSTAMP:20260613T052516 CREATED:20220518T221630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220518T230942Z UID:2654-1653498000-1653507000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Curious? A Faculty & Graduate Student Mixer DESCRIPTION:Join us for conversation\, appetizers\, and drinks: Wednesday\, May 25\n5:00 – 7:30 PM York Yard (outdoors)\n1928 Packard Street\, A2 48104 (map) UM Faculty and Graduate Students\nRSVP by Monday\, May 23   ESC is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Department of Communication & Media in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-pod-a-faculty-graduate-student-mixer/ LOCATION:MI END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR