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Dear Colleagues, The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London is pleased to announce two upcoming events. Building sustainable communities around data and software Wednesday 6 March 2024 2:30PM - 4:00PM GMT Online & In-person at Senate House, University of London Register: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/building-sustainable-communities-around-data-and-software Living with Machines<https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/> was five-year project which experimented with the power of cutting edge data science methods for leveraging digitised historical collections at scale. The project made a series of interventions, developing new datasets, new software, generating historical research, as well as exploring new paradigms for interdisciplinary collaborative research. Our challenge, now the project is 'complete', is to think about the afterlife of the assets from this project, and specifically how to build user and developer communities around our data and software. In this talk, Ruth Ahnert (QMUL) and Daniel Wilson (The Alan Turing Institute) will explore the opportunities for the community as well as the major hurdles we need to surmount - not just within the project team but in the wider research culture in the UK. Queer Representations of AI Wednesday 13 March 2024 4:00 - 5:30 PM GMT Online Register: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/queer-representations-ai This seminar discusses the interplay between queerness and artificial intelligence (AI). Understanding queerness as a way to challenge "natural" or "commonsensical" perspectives and norms, we reflect on how such dominant representations structure and sustain AI technologies, as well as how to repurpose machine intelligence in critical and even subversive ways. Queering AI questions the established ideas regarding gender, sex (and binary thinking more generally) and highlights the ways in which computational models reify such categorizations. By drawing attention to the ways AI obscures multiplicities and paradoxes, but equally to the "glitches" and "errors" it produces in the process, we aim to "blast open" the black box and foreground queer theory as a method for imagining novel possibilities and realizations of AI. Speakers: * Alicia Boyd (Post-doc, New York University) * Edmond Y. Chang (Lecturer, Ohio University) * Liz W Faber (Lecturer, University of Maryland) * Ute Kalender (Guest Professor, HFBK Hamburg) * Kalle Westerling (Research Application Manager, The Alan Turing Institute) This event is part of the AI UK Fringe<https://ai-uk.turing.ac.uk/fringe-events/>. Best wishes, Michael Michael Donnay (he/him) Manager | Digital Humanities Research Hub School of Advanced Study | University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities<http://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities> The University of London is an exempt charity and a statutory corporation in England and Wales (Company No. RC000661) HMRC Charities Reference X422. VAT Registration GB 222 7971 03. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TURINGINS-HUMANITIES-DATASCIENCE list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=TURINGINS-HUMANITIES-DATASCIENCE&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/TURINGINS-HUMANITIES-DATASCIENCE, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/