BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM ESC - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230407T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230323T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230323T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230317T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230317T120000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230314T133000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230313T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230310T153000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230220T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230220T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230217T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230217T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230209T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230209T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230203T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230203T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20230130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221107T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221003T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20221003T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220929T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220930T140000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220922T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 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:20260613T064113 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:20260613T064113 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/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220407T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20220214T015513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T012532Z UID:2557-1649322000-1649437200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Symposium: Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa DESCRIPTION:HOW TO ATTENDThis event will be held from 9:00am – 5:00pm EST on April 7 and April 8. Symposium participants may attend either in-person (Room 2435\, North Quad) or virtually; registration is required. For additional details (including a list of confirmed speakers) and to register:  https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm. ABOUTSocial media influencer activity on platforms such as YouTube\, Twitter\, Instagram\, Facebook\, TikTok\, and LinkedIn are now pivotal to social influence in societies around the world\, as the ecology of the public sphere gets increasingly crafted\, amplified\, or negated by what happens online. This is as true\, or more so in the Global South\, where social media has often served as the gateway for entry into the online realm for millions of technology users with little or no prior experience. The resulting world is one in which the boundaries between the physical and the virtual has fundamentally reshaped power equations between the citizens and the state\, their culture\, and their communities. This symposium at the University of Michigan is focused on social media influencers\, and brings a host of leaders\, artistes\, journalists\, activists\, commentators\, and scholars from two of the fastest growing Internet-using regions of the world to discuss how they interact online\, what drives their activities and success\, and how being public figures online impacts their lives and work. This event has been organized by ESC affiliated faculty Joyojeet Pal (School of Information\, University of Michigan) and Omolade Adunbi (DAAS\, University of Michigan). It is co-sponsored by ESC; the Center for South Asian Studies; the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Rackham Graduate School; the African Studies Center; the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts; and the School of Information. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/symposium-social-media-influencers-and-the-new-political-economy-in-south-asia-and-africa/ LOCATION:Room 2435\, North Quad\, 105 State Street\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220321T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220321T180000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20220308T031003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T031003Z UID:2588-1647880200-1647885600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Cultivating socially responsible engineers: The role of universities and public policy DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEIn-person attendance is limited to current University of Michigan students\, faculty\, and staff. All in-person attendees must register\, and will be required to complete the ResponsiBlue screening before entering the building. Masks are required. The event will also be livestreamed for those outside of the University\, or University members who choose not to attend in-person. To register or access the livestream: https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2022/cultivating-socially-responsible-engineers-role-universities-and-public-policy. ABOUTJoin STPP for a panel discussion that will convene leaders in academia and government working in the field of public interest technology to discuss the role of universities and public policy in cultivating socially responsible engineers. They will focus on what needs to change in STEM education policy to center equity and justice in the training of the next generation of scientists and technologists. PANELISTS Amy Ko\, Professor\, Information School\, University of Washington-Seattle Amy J. Ko is a Professor at the University of Washington Information School and an Adjunct Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. She directs the Code & Cognition Lab\, where she and her students study CS education\, human-computer interaction\, and humanity’s individual and collective struggle to understand computing and harness it for equity and justice. Her earliest work included techniques for automatically answering questions about program behavior to support debugging\, program understanding\, and reuse. Her later work studied interactions between developers and users\, and techniques for web scale aggregation of user intent through help systems; she co-founded AnswerDash to commercialize these ideas. Her latest work investigates effective\, equitable\, and inclusive ways for humanity to learn computing\, especially how data\, algorithms\, APIs\, and AI can both empower and oppress. Her work spans more than 140 peer-reviewed publications\, with 13 receiving best paper awards and 4 receiving most influential paper awards. She is an ACM Senior Member\, and member of ACM SIGCHI\, SIGCSE\, and SIGSOFT. She received her Ph.D. at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008\, and degrees in Computer Science and Psychology with Honors from Oregon State University in 2002. Tim McKay\, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics\, Astronomy\, and Education; University of Michigan Tim McKay is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics\, Astronomy\, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, and Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. McKay received a BS in Physics from Temple University\, where he was a first-generation\, commuter student. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1992\, and joined the faculty at Michigan in 1995. McKay’s team has applied observational and experimental data science methods to astrophysics\, cosmology\, and education. They have probed the growth of cosmic structure as well as the expansion history of the Universe\, especially through studies of galaxy clusters and gravitational lensing. They have discovered prompt optical counterparts to gamma-ray bursts. Since 2008\, they have been using classroom and institutional data to make higher education more equitable\, inclusive\, and effective. In the last few years\, McKay has helped to launch the Foundational Course Initiative\, the Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC) project\, and the Mellon College and Beyond II study. Johanna Okerland\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Ford School of Public Policy\, University of Michigan Johanna is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher with a background in Computer Science and additional training in Science Technology Studies and Public Policy. As a postdoc at U-M working with the Science and Technology Public Policy program and the Computer Science department\, Johanna has been developing ways to bring ethics and justice into CS courses and contribute to ongoing research about the societal implications of emerging technology. She plans to continue approaching technology from a critical interdisciplinary perspective and creating spaces for students to do the same. José Zayas-Castro\, Division Director\, NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers\, National Science Foundation Dr. José Luis Zayas-Castro joined the NSF on August 2\, 2021 as division director for the Division of Engineering Education and Centers. Prior to joining NSF\, during nearly two decades at University of San Francisco (USF)\, he served as a department chair and as associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and in various leadership positions at the USF Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously\, he was a professor and co-director of the diversity in engineering program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He began his faculty career at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPRM)\, where he led activities in manufacturing\, innovation\, and academic and research affairs. Zayas-Castro’s main research interests are in healthcare systems engineering\, manufacturing systems\, engineering entrepreneurship\, and economic and cost systems. He has experience with small businesses as well as partnerships with industry\, non-profit foundations\, and international organizations. Zayas-Castro received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from UPRM\, and his master’s in industrial and management engineering\, master’s in business administration\, and doctorate in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Zayas-Castro is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers\, a member of the Pan-American Academy of Engineering\, and is also very active in the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). Among his numerous awards\, in 2006 he received the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He has been recognized for mentoring\, advising\, and diversity initiatives. Moderator: Alec Gallimore\, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering\, University of Michigan Dr. Alec D. Gallimore is the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dean Gallimore is a rocket scientist\, and in 2019 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering–among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. He earned a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer (RPI)\, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on plasma physics from Princeton. He is the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering\, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering\, and founder and co-director of the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory (PEPL). He is also a member of the Applied Physics faculty. He is co-founder of ElectroDynamic Applications\, Inc. (EDA)\, a high-tech aerospace firm in Ann Arbor\, specializing in plasma device engineering.   This event is hosted by the Science\, Technology & Public Policy (STPP) Program and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy as part of the STPP Lecture Series\, with support from the Public Interest Technology University Network. It is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC)\, Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)\, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS)\, and Michigan Engineering. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/cultivating-socially-responsible-engineers-the-role-of-universities-and-public-policy/ LOCATION:Betty Ford Auditorium 1110 Weill Hall\, 735 S. State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48109\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220221T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220221T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20220128T224153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220218T190511Z UID:2523-1645459200-1645462800@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Virginia Dignum: Responsible AI - From Principles to Action DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEThis event will be held on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94087281082 TITLEResponsible AI: From Principles to Action SPEAKER Virginia Dignum\, Professor\, Wallenberg Chair in Responsible AI\, Umeå University ABSTRACTEvery day we see news about advances and the societal impact of AI. AI is changing the way we work\, live and solve challenges but concerns about fairness\, transparency or privacy are also growing. Ensuring AI ethics is more than designing systems whose result can be trusted. It is about the way we design them\, why we design them\, and who is involved in designing them. In order to develop and use AI responsibly\, we need to work towards technical\, societal\, institutional and legal methods and tools which provide concrete support to AI practitioners\, as well as awareness and training to enable participation of all\, to ensure the alignment of AI systems with our societies’ principles and values. This event is part of the MIDAS Seminar Series\, and is co-presented by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and ESC. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/virginia-dignum-responsible-ai-from-principles-to-action/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20220208T042208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T150336Z UID:2534-1645124400-1645131600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Watch Party: Hackers DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEThis event is restricted to participants at the University of Michigan\, and will be held on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96950614303 DETAILSWhen an evil corporate programmer frames a group of teenaged hackers for his own plot\, they must use their coding skills to avoid arrest and prevent a computer virus from capsizing a fleet of oil tankers… ESC is holding our first movie night\, and we’re starting with a computing cult classic: Hackers (1995)! Participants are encouraged to pick their own hacker aliases for the evening (think “Crash Override\,” “Cereal Killer\,” and “Acid Burn”)\, and ESC-themed prizes will be up for grabs as we play Hackers bingo. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-watch-party-hackers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211116T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211116T190000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211110T023727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211110T150113Z UID:2456-1637082000-1637089200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:ESC Zoom: An IRL Mixer DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing (ESC)Invites ESC faculty and student researchers\nand their UM ESC-Curious Guest to Bløm Meadworks(https://www.drinkblom.com)\n100 S. 4th Avenue\, A2 48104 (map) 5:00 – 7:00 pm\, Tuesday\, November 16 Heated Patio\, Food\, and Drinks Please RSVP by Sunday\, November 14Please fill out the RSVP once for yourself and once again for a guest. Masks required indoors. Proof of vaccination required.\n(Vaccination card\, photo of card or ResponsiBLUE app) URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-zoom-an-irl-mixer/ CATEGORIES:Mixer END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211115T170000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211026T142840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T165049Z UID:2373-1636992000-1636995600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Rebecca Fiebrink -- How machine learning can support human creators DESCRIPTION:A keynote address at the online UM Data Science and AI Symposium. HOW TO PARTICIPATERegistration is required but this symposium is free and open to the public. Click the link at the top of the event page (https://midas.umich.edu/2021-symposium/) to register. TITLEHow machine learning can support human creators SPEAKERDr. Rebecca Fiebrink\nReader\, Creative Computing Institute | University of the Arts London SHORT BIODr. Fiebrink’s research focuses on human-computer interaction\, machine learning\, and signal processing all to allow people to apply machine learning to new areas such as designing new musical instruments or gestural interfaces for accessibility. She is also involved in digital humanities scholarship and machine learning education. This event is organized by MIDAS. For more information\, see https://midas.umich.edu/2021-symposium/ \, URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/rebecca-fiebrink-at-u-m-data-science-and-ai-symposium/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211111T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211104T150806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T153816Z UID:2435-1636632000-1636635600@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Kalindi Vora: Anti-Racist AI DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEZoom Meeting ID: 931 5248 3217 (LINK) Passcode: 331064 (Note: For this event\, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLEAnti-racist AI SPEAKERKalindi Vora\, Yale ABSTRACTThis talk looks at the history of intelligence and race science to consider how these becomes embedded in approaches to developing machine intelligence. I argue that the design of commercial machines that interact socially with humans inscribes histories of racial capitalism\, imperialism\, and colonization onto projected future social and material worlds as machines become infrastructure for how we become human subjects. These critiques create a position from which to think pragmatically about how to change technology design imaginaries towards anti-racism. Feminist science and technology studies scholars have scrutinized the relation between human and non-human as a key point for understanding how social and political context and the material world coproduce one another. Insights from women of color feminisms\, feminist materialism\, postcolonial feminisms\, indigenous feminism and Black feminism about the role of embodiment\, imagination\, and labor point out the danger and inaccuracy of taking the material world as given\, even though scientific practice insists on just that. I’ll conclude by sharing thought experiments I’ve done with students on what a non-colonized\, anti-racist feminist artificial intelligence could be\, and by raising some unanswerable questions about intelligence in hopes that we can discuss the potential to challenge the seeming givenness of our colonized world and the way it shapes new technologies. SPEAKER BIOKalindi Vora is Visiting Professor of Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies\, and of Ethnicity Race and Migration at Yale University\, with secondary appointment in History of Science and Medicine. She is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at UC Davis\, and Director of the Feminist Research Institute\, and affiliate faculty of Science and Technology Studies. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (2015; winner of the 4S 2018 Rachel Carson book prize); and with Neda Atanasoski\, Surrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures\, (Duke University Press\, 2019). Her current research includes study of feminist approaches to artificial intelligence and robotics engineering\, and developing approaches to antiracist STEM research training informed by ethnic studies and STS research. Her PhD is from History of Consciousness\, UC Santa Cruz (Feminist Studies)\, and her MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i Manoa. She also held the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley Anthropology. Her publications appear in journals including Current Anthropology\, The South Atlantic Quarterly\, Somatechnics\, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology\, Postmodern Culture\, Radical Philosophy\, and Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience. This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/kalindi-vora-anti-racist-ai/ CATEGORIES:Visiting Speaker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211109T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211109T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211104T151542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T153929Z UID:2439-1636459200-1636462800@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Rachel Kuo: Solidarities Across Platforms DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEZoom Meeting ID: 930 5981 3180 (LINK) Passcode: 704289 (Note: For this event\, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLESolidarities Across Platforms: Racial Politics and Information Practices SPEAKERRachel Kuo\, NYU ABSTRACTInformation practices are integral to grassroots organizing\, including how collectives collect data for contact lists; manage money and distribute resources; and design graphics. This presentation uses examples from racial justice movements that critique state-sanctioned violence in order to address how race and power is embedded in technologies and how creative information practices interact with structures of power. Different practices of information sharing\, access\, and production function as collective sites for people to negotiate racial politics across differences. For example\, during moments of heightened racial violence\, Asian American organizers make use of different data narratives to shift racial alignments to be in political relation with Black liberation movements. Using archival materials\, ethnographic fieldwork\, interviews\, and examples from community-based research\, this talk also draws our attention to the administrative and technical labor and care work in movement building to account for the ways that power operates relationally within movement spaces and the differential relationships that people have with technologies. SPEAKER BIORachel Kuo writes\, teaches\, and researches race\, social movements\, and digital technology. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar at Duke University’s Asian American and Diasporic Studies program. She is a founding member of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and a current Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. She is also a co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. Her writing on race\, technology\, and politics has been published in New Media and Society\, Social Media + Society\, Big Data & Society\, ACM Interactions\, Journal of Communication\, as well as Teen Vogue and TruthOut. She has a PhD in Media\, Culture\, and Communication from New York University. This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/rachel-kuo-solidarities-across-platforms-racial-politics-and-information-practices/ CATEGORIES:Visiting Speaker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211105T130000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211104T145611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T154058Z UID:2428-1636113600-1636117200@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Roderic Crooks: "People's Community Control of Modern Technology" DESCRIPTION:HOW TO PARTICIPATEZoom Meeting ID: 992 9521 5958 (LINK) Passcode: 661093 (Note: For this event\, the number of Zoom participants outside of the University of Michigan is limited on a first-come\, first-served basis. If you do not have a umich.edu Zoom login the event may be full.) TITLE“People’s Community Control of Modern Technology”: Community Organizers and Data Justice SPEAKERRoderic Crooks\, UC Irvine ABSTRACTRecent widespread public protests in the United States against police violence\, racism\, and other issues demonstrate the importance of community organizing\, grassroots activism dedicated to building voice and political power. Community organizers work in all part of the American political spectrum\, but they share an approach to democratic participation\, a professional culture\, and many job-specific tools and techniques. Community organizers have also made extensive use of a less obvious political tool: data. Contemporary community organizers in working-class communities of color\, like other kinds of data professionals\, create\, aggregate\, and visualize data in order to inform organizational activities\, to communicate with various audiences\, and to demonstrate their value to funders and the public. Paradoxically\, many of the same community organizers also criticize via their work the design\, development\, and use of data-intensive technologies in a variety of domains\, including law enforcement\, public education\, public health\, and pandemic response. In this talk\, I will report preliminary findings of an ongoing research project that seeks to describe and understand the data practices of community organizers in working-class communities of color\, focusing in particular on the risks organizers and community members must address in their pursuit of racial justice projects that turn on uses of data.   SPEAKER BIORoderic Crooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. His research examines how the use of digital technology by public institutions contributes to the minoritization of working-class communities of color. His current project explores how community organizers in working-class communities of color use data for activist projects\, even as they dispute the proliferation of data-intensive technologies in education\, law enforcement\, financial services\, and other vital sites of public life. He has published extensively in HCI\, STS\, and social science venues on topics including political theories of online participation\, equity of access to information and media technologies\, and document theory.   This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/roderic-crooks-peoples-community-control-of-modern-technology-community-organizers-and-data-justice/ CATEGORIES:Visiting Speaker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211025T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211025T173000 DTSTAMP:20260613T064113 CREATED:20211025T142811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T142915Z UID:2368-1635177600-1635183000@esc.umich.edu SUMMARY:Karen Levy: RoboTruckers DESCRIPTION:FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS\nThis talk is restricted to participants at the University of Michigan. This talk will be held LIVE online via Zoom. To join\, you must use a link from a University of Michigan mailing list or a printed flyer. To obtain a link\, sign up to our mailing list at the bottom of this page (see: “Sign up for e-mail announcements to learn more.”). \nKaren Levy: RoboTruckers — The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work\n  \nABSTRACT\nMuch attention has been paid to the risk artificial intelligence poses to employment\, particularly in low-wage industries. The question has invited well-placed concern from policymakers\, as the prospect of millions of low-skilled workers finding themselves suddenly without employment brings with it the potential for tremendous social and economic disruption. Long-haul truck driving is perceived as a prime target for such displacement\, due to the fast-developing technical capabilities of autonomous vehicles (many of which lend themselves to the specific needs of truck driving)\, characteristics of trucking labor\, and the political economy of the industry. In most of the public rhetoric about the threat of the self-driving truck\, the trucker is seen as a displaced party. He is displaced both physically and economically: removed from the cab of the truck\, and from his means of economic provision. The robot has replaced his imperfect\, disobedient\, tired\, and inefficient body\, rendering him redundant\, irrelevant\, and jobless. But the reality is more complicated. The intrusion of automation into the truck cab certainly presents a threat to the trucker\, but the threat is not solely or even primarily experienced\, as it is so often described\, as displacement. The trucker is still in the cab\, doing the work of truck driving—but he is joined there by intelligent systems that monitor his body directly. Hats that monitor his brain waves and head position\, vests that track his heart rate\, cameras trained on his eyelids for signs of fatigue or inattention: these systems flash lights in his face\, jolt his seat\, and send reports to his dispatcher or even his family members should the trucker’s focus waver. As more trucking firms integrate such technologies into their safety programs\, truckers are not being displaced by intelligent systems so much as they are experiencing the emergence of intelligent systems as a compelled hybridization\, a very intimate incursion into their work and bodies. This paper considers the dual\, conflicting narratives of job replacement by robots and of bodily integration with robots\, to assess the true range of AI’s potential effects on low-wage work. \n \n\nSPEAKER BIO\nKaren Levy is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at Cornell University and Associated Faculty at Cornell Law School. She is a sociologist and lawyer whose research focuses on legal\, social\, and ethical dimensions of data-intensive technologies \n. \nThis event is organized by the Science\, Technology\, and Society (STS) Program and co-sponsored by ESC. URL:https://esc.umich.edu/event/karen-levy-robotruckers/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR