Histories of AI: Imaginaries and Materialities – Seminar April 19-20

Histories of AI: Imaginaries and Materialities

April 19-20

Hosted by DigiLabour Research Lab and University of Cambridge – Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

Online and free webinar

Registration Link: https://digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YkXOyY4dRNC9jKVWZTB7Sw

Brazilian Time Zone (BRT) – please check your timezone

Program:

April 19
 
08:30 AM – Welcome
Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University/ Histories of Artificial Intelligence)
Jonnie Penn (University of Cambridge/ Histories of Artificial Intelligence)
Bruno Moreschi (University of São Paulo/ Histories of Artificial Intelligence)
 
 
09 AM – AI Imaginaries
Kanta Dihal (University of Cambridge)
Gustavo Fischer (Unisinos University)
Simone Natale (University of Turin)
 
Moderator: Giselle Beiguelman (University of São Paulo)
 
 
11AM – AI Infrastructures
Vladan Joler (University of Novi Sad)
Jian Xiao (Zhejiang University)
 
Moderator: Gabriel Pereira (Aarhus University)
 
 
2PM – AI & Colonialism
Syed Mustafa Ali (Open University)
Paola Ricaurte (Monterrey Institute of Technology)
Rachel Adams (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa)
Michael Kwet (Rhodes University, South Africa/ Yale Law School)
 
Moderator: Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Ecuador)
 
 
4PM – Vocabulary & Design of AI
Amba Kak (AI Now!)
Carla Vieira (perifaCode/ University of São Paulo)
Luke Stark (University of Western Ontario)
Ranjit Singh (Data & Society)
 
Moderator: Évilin Matos (Unisinos University)
 
 
April 20
 
09AM – AI, Automation and Economics
Matthew Cole (University of Oxford)
Edemilson Paraná (Federal University of Ceará)
 
Moderator: Esther Majerowicz (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
 
11AM – AI & Gender
Chenai Chair (My Data Rights Africa/ Mozilla Foundation)
Janet Abbate (VirginiaTech)
Mariana Valente (InternetLab)
 
Moderator: Maria Clara Aquino (Unisinos University)
 
 
2PM –  AI & Work
Sarah T. Roberts (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA)
Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University)
Julian Posada (University of Toronto)
 
Moderator: Camila Acosta (University of São Paulo)
 
 
4PM – AI & Music
Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)
Adriana Amaral (Unisinos University)
Andrés Segura-Castillo (Universidad Estatal a Distancia Costa Rica)
 
Moderator: Carol Govari (Unisinos University)
 
 
6PM: Closing Keynote
Sareeta Amrute (University of Washington)