Beyond Precarity: Imaginaries, Constraints, and the Meaning of Platform Work
This talk with Arturo Arriagada will analyse the daily routines and economic pressures faced by today’s digital workers.
The Politics of Numbers: Queer Data and the Counting of LGBTQ Communities
Dr Kevin Guyan shares his work on queer approaches to the collection, analysis and presentation of data.
Wikidata, biographical lives, and linked infrastructures of women’s work 1870-1950
A project deep dive by James Baker, Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton.
Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Historic Musical Instruments
This talk discusses work carried out at the NEMUS project on the topic of digital conservation of historic stringed instruments.
Tech Tuesdays #3: Automation – Your New Business Partner
Explore how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business.
Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
A panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
A conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
As part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
The Future of Education: Crisis
The intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
The Future of Education: Utopia
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
