Large language models like ChatGPT are transforming the ways we communicate, learn, and interact with one another. In response, it's important to engage an interdisciplinary lens to examine the varied impacts of such technologies. To this end, the Digital Intimacies, Gender and Sexuality Lab, in collaboration with the Applied AI Institute, is organizing a panel discussion moderated by Stefanie Duguay and Fenwick […]
How can science fiction contribute to doing social sciences otherwise? On February 17th, 2023, the Ethnography Lab will be welcoming fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss fiction writing in relation to ethnographic practices. Kim Stanley Robinson is a world renowned science fiction author, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, who’s work centers […]
Please join us for the 8th edition of the CRIHN Digital Humanities Showcase, co-organized by Darren Wershler and Anton Boudreau Ninkov, this Friday, February 17, 2023, from 9am at the Milieux Resource Room (EV. 11. 705). DH showcase gives both participants and the public an overview of the most recent digital humanities research, and creates stimulating […]
Are you coming with me under my umbrella? Join us for the next installment of A Walk in LePARC with multidisciplinary artist Patricia Ragazzon, on February 16, 2023, from 2-5 PM. In her doctoral research on embodied learning as a pedagogical process, Patricia Ragazzon develops the concept of “performative compositions” as modes of creation with […]
Machine Agencies is thrilled to welcome Dr. Luke Stark for the talk "Laws of Inference: Conceptual Limits for Automated Decision-Making": Regulation via the epistemological structure of an application space is one potential mechanism to address the social impact of rapid advances in machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods used for automated decision-making. […]
The DIGS Lab is hosting a talk with Dr. Zhifan Luo on a computational approach to collecting, analyzing, and visualizing digital text as data. A deeply digitalized social world has brought studies of media to an “Age of Data Abundance,” which comes with its own opportunities and challenges. For a new generation of scholars, proper methodological […]
Join us for the next installment of Moving the Landscape to Find the Ground, Post Image's cycle of artist talks and artist residencies, featuring a talk with black feminist theorist Tina Campt! Tina Campt's lecture reflects on the the afterlives of images re-activated in ways that imagine black life, bodies, and spaces across time. This lecture […]
The GameBling Game Jam is back for a second edition and it is all about luck this time (Feb 11-12, 2023)! The outcome of some gambling games relies on pure probability (i.e., slot machines, lotteries), while others involve a bit of skill (e.g., poker, mahjong). But for many gamblers, the odds of winning are also […]
The Aging in Data project is hosting the workshop How We Live with Data - in a collaboration with the Atwater Library - with researchers Nicole Dalmer, Cal Biruk, and Stephanie Hatzifilalithis. The workshop will be happening on February 10th, from 1:00-5:00 PM, at the Milieux Resource Room (EV 11.705) The aim of this interactive […]
Please join us for the next installment of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series featuring Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia's talk 'Postcolonial Nature'. In this talk, the speaker reflects on three vectors that inscribe the historicity of postcolonial nature as the articulation of a certain kind of lived experience. (1) Land grabbing that renders indigenous inhabitants automatic serfs […]
Come join us for this massive collaborative improvisational micro-opera that explores relations between identity, independence, and our yearning for belonging, and collaborative creation. When? February 8th, 6:00 PM Where? Video Production Studio (EV 10.760) Our identities are partially constructed of rules internalized through our upbringing, which provide us with a lifeline and a noose. Some need […]
Post Image presents Palestinian artist Rehab Nazzal, in the fourth installment of Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which takes place until May 2023. This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting […]
