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SUMMARY:A New Sound
DESCRIPTION:We are living at a time of extraordinary crisis. What can we do collectively to pick a path through the current uncertainty? Join us for a day of creative discussion with other makers of multi-disciplinary and music driven performance to identify how we overcome barriers and envision a future together. \n\n\n\nA New Sound is for artists in the field of opera\, music theatre\, music driven performance. The day will be led by Mahogany Opera\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and Snap – Elastic. Please note that some of the sessions will be quite physical\, so please wear clothes you are comfortable to move around in. \n\n\n\nFollowing the day at the Edinburgh Futures Institute we would love for you to join us for a drink. Location: TBC. \n\n\n\nThe Day\n\n\n\nFinding Common Ground\n\n\n\nIntroductory and closing sessions led by Frederic Wake-Walker\, Mahogany Opera \n\n\n\nWhat burning questions\, ideas and concerns would you like to explore today? Through movement\, singing and writing exercises inspired by Mahogany’s recent Great Learning project\, we will come together as a group\, gather expectations and themes\, collectively define the communal threads of the day and formulate some key actions and principles to take away with us. \n\n\n\nBeing a freelance artist making music and theatre can often feel like a lonely or isolated place to be. Let’s find some solace in sharing and strength in community. \n\n\n\nHow to Get Things Going with the Skills You Already Have\n\n\n\nA Self – Producing Workshop with Snap – Elastic \n\n\n\nEszter Marsalko and Claire Willoughby of Snap-Elastic will lead a workshop aimed at artists interested in self producing\, to unpack how best to get started and realise your work. How can we support each other and pool our resources at a time when they are most scarce? In this workshop\, we will connect with our inner Artist\, and explore the ways in which those creative intuitions can best serve us\, and our community as a whole. \n\n\n\nUtopia Lab\n\n\n\nSession led by Jennifer Williams\, Edinburgh Futures Institute \n\n\n\nUtopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present. In this session\, we will be dreaming about the future of opera and art-making: what is your utopian vision? What do you want for your own work in the future\, and how do you envisage the community and artform in 10 years\, 50 years\, 100 years? What can we learn about these desires and imagined futures that can influence how we act and create today? What does it mean to make work that can change the way we think and behave\, that can encourage us to think about the world in new ways\, that can inspire and support positive change… and also be a wonder to behold? \n\n\n\nUtopia is movement\, meditation\, poetry and imagination – you can participate in ways that feel good for you! For more information about Utopia Labs\, please see our website: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/ \n\n\n\nA more detailed schedule will be distributed to attendees a few days before the event. \n\n\n\nAbout the session leaders\n\n\n\nMahogany Opera\n\n\n\nMahogany Opera is a leading commissioner and producer of new opera and music theatre. We work across the UK and internationally. Our vision of opera as an inclusive\, collaborative\, and dynamic artform informs our aim to stretch the boundaries of what opera can be and who it is for. \n\n\n\nWe are committed to developing diverse artists and audiences through three programmes:Snappy Operas – award-winning participatory young people’s programmeVarious Stages – R&D programme supporting artists and new ideasCommissioning innovative work for the stage through partnerships \n\n\n\nEdinburgh Futures Institute\n\n\n\nEFI is a cross-University institute\, with active working relationships with Schools across the University. At the Edinburgh Futures Institute we challenge\, create\, and make change happen. We are focused on tackling today’s increasingly complex issues by bringing people and disciplines together to spark the unexpected and make better futures possible. \n\n\n\nSnap-Elsatic\n\n\n\nSnap – Elastic is an artist-led performance collective making multidisciplinary work for diverse audiences. The three core members are experienced artists and creative leaders\, with backgrounds in theatre\, clown\, opera and movement\, and they work hard to embrace innovation\, to play\, and to engage in cross-form performance and collaboration.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-new-sound/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Project Deep Dive: Anja Neundorf
DESCRIPTION:(When) Does civic education work? Evidence from a cross-national online experiment (with Aykut Öztürk\, Steven Finkel\, and Ericka Rascon Ramirez) \n\n\n\nCivic education is an important effort in strengthening the resilience of existing and new democracies. However\, little is known about 1) whether these programs can be conducted online (instead of traditionally in-person)\, 2) what is the best frame to promote democracy\, and 3) whether there are contextual differences in the impact of these interventions. Our project aims to answer these questions through online experiments\, which were conducted in 33 countries\, representing varying levels of democratic and economic development. Over 40\,000 respondents were recruited via social media and were randomly shown one of three treatment videos\, promoting different aspects of democracy (civic rights\, separation of power\, provision of economic and public goods) or a placebo treatment. Our results show that the treatments positively affected support for democracy and that the effect can still be detected after two weeks. However\, contrary to expectations\, the political and economic context of respondents does not condition the impact of our interventions. Our study is the most comprehensive study ever conducted in the field of civic education\, allowing us to explore how democracy promotion works in different countries. \n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Neundorf\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Neundorf is a professor of Politics and Research Methods at the University of Glasgow. Before joining Glasgow\, she worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham (2013-2019) and a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, University of Oxford (2010-2012). She received her PhD from the University of Essex. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political behaviour\, research methods\, and comparative politics. She is currently the principal investigator of the ERC-funded Consolidator Grant “Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it”.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/project-deep-dive-anja-neundorf/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Protecting the State\, Protecting our Homes: governing and designing cybersecurity
DESCRIPTION:As our society has become increasingly dependent on information infrastructures that reach into our pockets\, homes and workplaces\, we have become increasing vulnerable to attacks on and through these systems. Cybersecurity is perhaps one of the most important modern threats that we don’t talk enough about. Adversaries range from specialist military government teams attacking infrastructure and penetrating state organisations\, or managing large scale organised theft of commercial secrets\,  state sponsored and commercial criminal groups that are stealing personal data\, run ransomware attacks on hospitals and business\, through to teenage hackers doing simple denial of service attacks on their friends\, or even spying via home webcams.  Why do our systems have these vulnerabilities? How can we improve legal\, technical and human dimensions of design and use to ensure future protection and resilience? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lachlan Urquhart\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Lachlan Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at the Edinburgh Law School. He is Founder and Director of the Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab. He is a Director of both the Centre for Research into Information\, Surveillance\, and Privacy (CRISP) and the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT). He is part of the management team of the Designing Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training\, and the Institute of Design Informatics.  His monograph\, Clever Computing through Accountable Design\, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Lachlan has published over 60 papers in leading venues in computing\, law\, and ethics. He has been an investigator on projects totalling nearly £17m. He is currently Principal Investigator of the £1.2m EPSRC ‘Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ project and is Co-Investigator on the £9.75m Responsible Natural Language Processing AI CDT; the £3.2m EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance Node\, and various projects in the EPSRC Horizon Trusted Data Driven Products hub. He was also investigator on the now completed ESRC Emotional AI in Smart Cities project \, EPSRC Defence Against Dark Artefacts and TAS Hub Envisioning Biometric AI Futures project. \n\n\n\nHis main research interests are in the socio-technical aspects of designing\, living with\, and regulating emerging information technologies. He has a multidisciplinary background in computer science (PhD) and law (LL.B; LL.M) and has studied at the Universities of Edinburgh\, Strathclyde\, and Nottingham. He is an editor on the Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series. He is a Visiting Researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and member of the international Emotional AI Lab. He has been a visiting scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS\, Porto (2021); a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2020-22)\, a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre\, Universitá degli Studi di Milano (2022-23)\, and a visiting researcher at Centre for Business Information Ethics\, Meiji University\, Tokyo (2014). At Edinburgh\, he was the Law School lead for the Centre for Data\, Culture\, and Society 2019-2023; and is a research associate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Tariq Elahi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTariq Elahi received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and was fortunate to have Ian Goldberg as his supervisor. His thesis centered on censorship resistance systems and analyses of their security and privacy properties. He received his MSc from Royal Holloway – University of London under the supervision of Kenny Paterson where he investigated anonymous communications and file sharing systems. He researches computer and network security and privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) with an emphasis on effective\, efficient\, and robust deployments. His research has\, and continues to\, span the systematization and the game-theoretic analysis of censorship resistance and circumvention systems\, security analysis and designs of anonymous communication systems\, and privacy-preserving data collection in privacy-sensitive scenarios. He is interested in novel applications and enhancements to PETs techniques and strategies to exotic environments\, such as Smart Cities where standard trust and availability assumptions need not apply.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/protecting-the-state-protecting-our-homes-governing-and-designing-cybersecurity/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:AI Safety and AI Ethics: bridging cultures of existential and social risk
DESCRIPTION:2023 was undoubtedly the year of ‘AI’ – when we were all amazed by the capabilities of ChatGTP and image generators\, and stories of existential risks filled the media. This narrative seemed to be pushed by the very people who had invested most in developing Large Language Models\, and were interlinked with the ideology of Effective Altruism. The concept of AI Safety rose to the top of the political agenda. However\, concern about\, and research on how AI could be developed and used responsibly has a long history. In 2023 the EU passed the AI Act\, which was conceived well before current Generative AI as a framework for governance of risks and harms\, while promoting innovation. Edinburgh University has become a leading centre for research on AI Ethics – a paradigm lead by philosophers\, rather than one lead by computer scientists and engineers\, and emphasises social risks and harms – rather than civilisation destroying harms. However by the end of 2023\, the real life requirements of business for robust systems\, oversight by government concerned about weapons\, jobs\, fundamental rights and international power struggles have moved the focus of AI Safety towards practical concerns. In these talks we will hear about how and why existential risk became such a headline grabbing topic\, and understand how some ways we can start the hard work of bridging the responsible AI\, AI Ethics and AI safety paradigms. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Atoosa Kasirzadeh\n\n\n\nDr Atoosa Kasirzadeh is a philosopher\, mathematician\, and systems engineer at the University of Edinburgh. She is an Assistant Professor (Chancellor’s Fellow) in the Philosophy Department\, Director of Research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures\, and a Research Lead at the Alan Turing Institute. Prior to this\, she held research positions at DeepMind and Australian National University.  \n\n\n\nShe has a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology (2021) from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Mathematics (2015) from the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. Her current research is focused on ethics\, safety\, and philosophy of AI (value alignment\, interpretability\, generative models\, recommender systems) and philosophy of science (explanation\, prediction\, complex systems\, automating science).  \n\n\n\nWebsite https://kasirzadeh.org/  \n\n\n\nDr Vassilis Galanos\n\n\n\nDr Vassilis Galanos is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at the Edinburgh College of Art\, conducting a risk-based assessment of Generative AI in journalism as part of the BRAID UK initiative and teaching about Technology Futures. Vassilis investigates the historical and sociological underpinnings of interwoven AI and internet technologies\, and how expertise and expectations are negotiated in these domains. Vassilis is Associate Editor of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and prospective Lecturer in Digital Work at the University of Stirling’s School of Management. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/vassilis-galanos 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-safety-and-ai-ethics-bridging-cultures-of-existential-and-social-risk/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Music\, Copyright & Generative AI: Social\, Ontological & Legal Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:“Music\, Copyright & Generative AI: Social\, Ontological & Legal Perspectives” is the second in a series of 4 public seminars taking critical and creative perspectives on the current state of AI in music; it is organised by the MusAI research programme in collaboration with the ‘AI and the Arts’ group at The Alan Turing Institute. The speakers address the challenges posed by generative AI to existing music copyright regimes. Born’s presentation draws on anthropological literature to highlight key ontological categories underwriting property and ownership. Drott’s presentation focuses on automatic music generation services\, asking whether copyright’s commitment to the individual author is called into question by the distributed nature of machine learning. Haworth examines the use of AI-based vocal cloning and source separation methods in official and unofficial productions of the Beatles’ and Beach Boys’ music. He highlights the moral anxieties that cluster around the use of vocal likenesses in pop\, and the artist-led initiatives being developed to address these––many of which are in advance of copyright law. \n\n\n\nFeaturing an electronic music performance by Owen Green (Max Planck Institute) and Jules Rawlinson (University of Edinburgh). Owen Green’s research centres on live electronic music\, with focuses on playing with and designing semi-autonomous performance systems\, and the philosophy of technology as it relates to music. \n\n\n\n\n\nGeorgina Born\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorgina Born is Professor of Anthropology and Music at University College London. She directs the MusAI research programme\, and previously held Professorships at the Universities of Oxford (2010-21) and Cambridge (2006-10)\, as well as having a professional life as a musician in experimental rock\, jazz and free improvisation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Drott\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Drott is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. His research spans contemporary music cultures\, streaming music platforms\, music and protest\, genre theory\, digital music and AI music\, and the political economy of music. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Haworth\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Haworth is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on electronic and experimental musics; British popular music; music and politics; the theory and analysis of music technology; AI music\, and music and the internet.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/music-copyright-generative-ai-social-ontological-legal-perspectives/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240202T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240202T173000
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SUMMARY:Climate Extremes and Decision-making: it's all about the models
DESCRIPTION:Prediction of the impacts of climate change is one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity\, crucial tools that will support policy\, business and civil society in planning mitigations – everything from the pricing of insurance to building community resilience and the speed of decarbonisation. Just as in the work done to demonstrate human impacts on the climate\, much of the heavy-lifting falls on the creation of predictive computer models that integrate scientific evidence. However for predictions of the impact of climate change and the actions we might take requires models that are not only about the science\, but also about the economic and social impact – so that policy makers\, politicians\, companies and citizens can debate resources and make trade-offs. This makes them inherently the site of controversy. \n\n\n\nIn this session two eminent scientists\, Prof Chris Dent and Prof Gabi Hegerl will explore the science\, maths\, and computing that makes these models possible and discuss what they can and cannot do\, how much we need them\, and how much we can or cannot rely on them. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nProf Chris Dent\n\n\n\nChris Dent is Professor of Industrial Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh\, and a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He has broad interests across energy and infrastructure analysis\, climate resilience\, and decision support in public policy. He currently works on a number of industrial innovation projects\, and holds a KE Catalyst grant from the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences to support the Global Power System Transformation consortium with their research agenda in system planning\, control rooms\, and AI. In 2021-2  he was Technical Lead for the National Digital Twin programme Climate Resilience Demonstrator. As well as working in a School of Mathematics\, he is also a Chartered Engineer. \n\n\n\nProf Gabi Hegerl\n\n\n\nGabi Hegerl is a Professor in Climate Change Science\, School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. She is Fellow of the Royal Society\, the Leopoldina\, the Royal Society of Edinburgh\, and of the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society. She has received the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and the Hans Sigrist Prize of the University of Bern.  She co-leads the World Climate Research Programme lighthouse activity ‘safe landing climates‘; and has co-led their Grand Challenge on Extremes. She researches causes of climate change\, including in temperature and precipitation\, from the recent period to the last millennium\, and has used this evidence to constrain future climate change\, with a special interest in climate extremes\, for example\, heat waves\, compound extremes and impacts of extremes.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/climate-extremes-and-decision-making-its-all-about-the-models/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240126T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240126T173000
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SUMMARY:Quantification of Labour: from the factory to the gig economy
DESCRIPTION:The use of science and technology to optimise the output of workers for the profit of business is not a new phenomenon. For this session we welcome two sociologists who work on the quantification of the body and worker\, Dr Mark Patterson\, and Dr Karen Gregory. Dr Patterson will explore the history of measurement of the workers’ health and bodies which fed in the Scientific Management of the early 20th Century. The digital management of workers through standardised platforms again came to the fore with the emergence of the ‘gig economy’ after the 2008 economic crisis. Optimisation of gig economy work is at the basis of their business model\,  but the workers have little say in how data about activities is used to calculate\, control and punish them. Dr Karen Gregory explores the potential for ‘worker data science’ to resit and challenge the hidden decisions of the platforms they work on.  As we all become ‘platform’ workers\, how can we we call take back of data to collectively improve our working conditions? \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Mark Paterson\, Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh\n\n\n\nMark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has an interest in the history and science of bodily sensation\, blindness\, and technologies of the senses. Along with articles published in humanities and social science journals\, he is author of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics\, Affects and Technologies (2007)\, Seeing with the Hands: Blindness\, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016)\, How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement\, Measurement\, Sensation (2021)\, and co-editor of Touching Place\, Spacing Touch (2012). His research website is sensory-motor.com.  He was an IASH-SSPS Research Fellow\, from September – December 2022. \n\n\n\nWebsite: sensory-motor.com  \n\n\n\nDr Karen Gregory\, Dept of Sociology\, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n\nKaren Gregory is  digital sociologist\, ethnographer\, and Programme Co-Director of the MSc in Digital Sociology.  She is a leading researcher in the field of work in the digital age\, specialising both in the work of delivery drivers in the platform economy\, and of academics in the contemporary university.   Her recent work explores ‘Worker Data Science’\, how workers’ collectives are attempting to take back control of their work by collecting and using information about their own working patterns. She is currently co-lead the Digital Social Science Research Cluster at the Center for Data\, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Cultural Economy. Before coming to Edinburgh\, she was a lecturer at The City College of New York\, where she developed and ran The City Lab @ The Center for Worker Education. \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/karen-gregory 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/quantification-of-labour-from-the-factory-to-the-gig-economy/
LOCATION:Newhaven Lecture Theatre\, 13-15 College Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AA
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Project Deep Dive: Justin Chun-ting Ho
DESCRIPTION:While recent years witnessed an increasing use of computational text analysis in communications\, the computational analysis of visual content remained a challenging task. Recent advancement in multi-modal embeddings offers promising solutions to conduct automated content analysis on images as well texts. Using an annotated dataset of green influencer posts on Instagram\, this project presents and compares various inductive and deductive approaches to use pre-trained multi-modal embeddings for extracting theoretically relevant topics and frames from multi-modal content.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nJustin Chun-ting Ho\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustin Chun-ting Ho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. Before Amsterdam\, he worked at Academia Sinica in Taipei and Sciences Po in Paris. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on nationalism\, social media analysis\, and computational methods. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/project-deep-dive-justin-chun-ting-ho/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231215T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231215T100000
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SUMMARY:Recycling a Hospital with Edinburgh Future’s Institute
DESCRIPTION:CreativeMornings Edinburgh invites you to join their final event of 2023 with the the team behind the Recycling A Hospital project at Edinburgh Futures Institute! \n\n\n\nRecycling a Hospital is a creative project that seeks to reuse materials from the old Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place that could not be used in the redevelopment of the building into the new Edinburgh Futures Institute. Realising the materials bear a rich history and symbolic connection to the former hospital\, the project team decided to give them a new life in the form of an artwork. \n\n\n\nHear all about this beautiful project\, with the chance to ask questions\, catch up over a coffee and mince pie and celebrate another year of creativity!
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/recycling-a-hospital-with-edinburgh-futures-institute/
LOCATION:National Library of Scotland\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:CDCS Annual Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\n\n\nIn “How to See What’s Missing”\, artist and scholar Mary Flanagan discusses the investigation of artificial intelligence and machine learning and a groundbreaking use-case scenario of an image-making feminist AI. The project draws critical attention not only to the aesthetics of AI but the thorny biases behind technological learning systems and artworks\, and calls into question whose art is accessible after all. The talk will highlight human cognitive biases as well\, and speculate as to the equivalencies in the systems we build. A key aspect in interrogating AI\, underrepresentation\, and the arts lies within art archives\, and Flanagan’s journey creating training data and discussing the work with scientists deeply informs the project.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nMary Flanagan is a hyperdisciplinary researcher\, designer and artist who uses games\, algorithms\, and play systems as tools for participation and discovery.  Her practice is speculative and engages with possibilities: political\, sustainable\, radical\, and playful. She is the recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship\, the Thoma Foundation 2018 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art\, and commissions with the British Arts Council\, the National Academy of Sciences\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, and Rice University. Flanagan has lectured widely including at Oxford\, Cornell\, Columbia\, Harvard\, and the Sorbonne and has been a John Paul Getty Museum Scholar\, a Senior Scholar in Residence at the Cornell Society for the Humanities\, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar\, Jackman Humanities Institute\, University of Toronto. In 2016 she received an Honoris Causa in Design\, Illinois Institute of Technology\, and in 2019 named a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association. Her work has also been supported by the National Science Foundation\, National Institute of Justice\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Institute of Museum and Library Services\, the British Arts Council\, and the Tate. With six scholarly books\, over fifty essays and chapters\, arts books\, and a collection of poetry to her credit\, Flanagan is a thought leader sought for thinktanks such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Center for Future Design in Linz. She is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College and leads the design research laboratory Tiltfactor.org
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cdcs-annual-lecture-2023/
LOCATION:West Court\, Edinburgh College of Art\, 74 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9DF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T210000
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SUMMARY:Governing the AI Business Model: Platforms All the Way Down?
DESCRIPTION:Come along to the Centre for Technomoral Future’s Flagship Lecture\, where you’ll hear from Dr Michael Veale on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that stem from digital technologies. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Thursday\, December 7th 2023 at West Court in Edinburgh College of Art Main Building in Edinburgh and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nDr Veale’s lecture will be followed by a reception in the Sculpture Court. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\nDr Michael Veale is Associate Professor in digital rights and regulation\, and Vice-Dean (Education Innovation) at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. His research focusses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate\, in areas such as privacy-enhancing technologies and machine learning. This work is regularly cited by legislators\, regulators and governments\, and Dr Veale has consulted for a range of policy organisations including the Royal Society and British Academy\, the Law Society of England and Wales\, the European Commission\, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr Veale holds a PhD from UCL\, a MSc from Maastricht University and a BSc from LSE. He tweets at @mikarv.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/governing-the-ai-business-model-platforms-all-the-way-down/
LOCATION:West Court\, Edinburgh College of Art\, 74 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9DF
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T163000
DTSTAMP:20260405T233331
CREATED:20231031T151643Z
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SUMMARY:UK FinTech Symposium 2023
DESCRIPTION:The UK FinTech Symposium is the annual conference for the FinTech National Network delivered in association with Innovate UK\, the UK and Scottish Governments\, and is the gathering place for FinTech leaders to collaborate\, cooperate and develop new market opportunities. \n\n\n\nThis will be the most prestigious FinTech event being held outside London in 2023 and a unique opportunity for delegates to engage with fellow senior figures in the industry. \n\n\n\nThe third edition will be hosted in Edinburgh by Stephen Ingledew\, Chair of FinTech Scotland\, on Wednesday 29th November 2023\, and our media partner this year is The Times Scotland. \n\n\n\nThe UK FinTech Symposium creates a one stop unique gateway and access to the FinTech ecosystems of FinTech Wales\, FinTech NI\, FinTech Scotland\, FinTech North\, FinTech West\, SuperTech (West Midlands)\, their CEO’s and senior executives.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/uk-fintech-symposium-2023/
LOCATION:OX Edinburgh\, Natwest Gogarburn\, 175 Glasgow Road\, Edinburgh\, EH12 9SB
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T133000
DTSTAMP:20260405T233331
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SUMMARY:Conservation and heritage buildings archetype & low-carbon heating approach
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Agenda\n\n\n\nThis workshop will address the complexities\, challenges and future scenarios facing the retrofitting and energy efficiency of existing buildings. Partnering with the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust\, this event will focus on the challenges and ways to assess and apply sympathetic retrofit interventions (envelope and heating methods) to buildings in a conservation area or those have listed status\, including talks on the Edinburgh Futures Institute renovation and work done by Historic Environment Scotland and National Trust for Scotland. In a facilitated discussion\, we will explore current approaches to this challenge\, future visions and potential opportunities related to novel ways of gathering data\, maximising data efficiency\, utilising citizen science\, and galvanising stakeholders. \n\n\n\nAudience\n\n\n\n\nAcademics and researchers in e.g. net zero carbon engineering\, citizen science\, ESALA/ECA\, LIDAR scanning\, heritage and conservation\n\n\n\nProperty owners in the World Heritage Site (mainly Old Town and New Town)\n\n\n\nConstruction companies and those in their network\, e.g. suppliers\, financial institutions\n\n\n\nMembers of the public with an interest in\n\n\n\n\nKey Concepts\n\n\n\n\nnet zero infrastructure and buildings\n\n\n\nheritage and conservation\n\n\n\napplying citizen science\n\n\n\nDigital (LIDAR) scanning\n\n\n\nthe new EFI building\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing representatives from:\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh World Heritage Trust\n\n\n\nHistoric Environment Scotland\n\n\n\nNational Trust for Scotland\n\n\n\nArchitects and contractors\n\n\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh\n\n\n\nScottish Power\n\n\n\nAnd many more….
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/conservation-and-heritage-buildings-archetype-low-carbon-heating-approach/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Climate Change Institute\, High School Yards\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1LZ
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T173000
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SUMMARY:Digital Scotland 2023
DESCRIPTION:DigitalScotland is the largest annual gathering of public sector technology professionals\, where global govtech leaders share technology insights and lessons in digital transformation\, leadership\, skills\, cultural change and data-driven innovation. \n\n\n\nWith 50-plus speakers from a diverse array of backgrounds\, DigitalScotland is the leading forum to hear about how digital and data are transforming the way our public services operate and fulfil their mission to be modern\, responsive and designed around the needs of citizens. \n\n\n\nThe full-day conference features a fantastic line-up of globally accredited speakers on topics as diverse as service design\, ethics in AI\, the internet of things\, cybersecurity\, 5G and much more. \n\n\n\nWith a growing global ‘govtech’ movement\, DigitalScotland is a must-attend for technologists and policymakers delivering the next generation of government services.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/digital-scotland-2023/
LOCATION:Edinburgh International Conference Centre\, 150 Morrison St\, Edinburgh\, EH3 8EE
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231120T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231120T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T233331
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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: The Geopolitics of AI
DESCRIPTION:The geopolitics of AI is one aspect of the dynamic interplay between nations as they vie for technological supremacy\, economic dominance\, and strategic advantage. Countries are investing heavily in AI research and development to harness its potential across various sectors\, including defence\, economy\, healthcare\, and more. This competition is driven by the recognition that AI can revolutionise industries\, enhance military capabilities\, and reshape global power dynamics. The landscape is marked by a race to attract AI talent\, secure intellectual property rights\, and establish AI-friendly regulatory frameworks. But the whole edifice is built on critical minerals\, including cobalt\, lithium\, silicon\, and rare earth elements.  \n\n\n\nWhile the United States and China have emerged as key contenders\, other nations\, including the European Union\, Canada\, and Israel\, are also striving to establish themselves as AI leaders. Ethical considerations\, data privacy\, and the potential for job displacement add complexity to the geopolitical AI landscape\, leading to discussions around international cooperation\, norms\, and regulations. As AI’s influence grows\, navigating its geopolitics becomes increasingly crucial for shaping the future of nations and their global relationships.  \n\n\n\nThis panel brings together six experts in the field of AI and geopolitics to address some of these issues for a lay audience.  \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event.  \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Zerilli (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Zerilli is a philosopher with interests in cognitive science\, artificial intelligence\, and the law. He is the Chancellor’s Fellow (Assistant Professor) in AI\, Data\, and the Rule of Law at the University of Edinburgh\, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford\, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Before taking up his current post\, he was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was also called to the Sydney bar in 2011. His published work appears in such journals as Philosophy of Science\, Behavioral and Brain Sciences\, and Synthese. His two most recent books are The Adaptable Mind (Oxford University Press\, 2020) and A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press\, 2021).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Kaye\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Kaye has investigated data use in relation to emerging technologies and their impacts on people\, society and government for more than 20 years as an award-winning journalist\, author and researcher. As Deputy Director of World Privacy Forum\, a nonpartisan\, nonprofit public interest research organization\, Kate researches AI and data governance issues with a special focus on AI ethics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKerry McInerney\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kerry McInerney is a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI)\, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, UCL\, an AI Now Research Fellow\, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She is the co-chair of the LCFI’s Global Politics of AI project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaydn Belfield\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaydn Belfield is a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence\, and has been Academic Project Manager at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) for the past six years. In that time the Centre tripled in size\, and he advised the UK\, US\, and Singaporean governments; the EU\, UN and OECD; and leading technology companies.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversations/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231116T190000
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SUMMARY:Emotions at Work with Gabriella Braun
DESCRIPTION:Who do you bring with you to work? Try as we might\, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we go to work. We bring all that we are.  \n\n\n\nGabriella Braun has been taking psychoanalysis out of the therapy room and into the staff room for over twenty years. In her book All That We Are she shows us why a board loses the plot\, nearly causes their company to collapse\, and how they come through. We see the connection between a headteacher’s professional and personal loss. We understand seemingly unfathomable behaviour – why a man lets his organisation push him around\, a lawyer becomes paranoid\, a team repeatedly creates scapegoats\, and founders of a literary agency feud.  \n\n\n\nJoin Gabriella as she talks about the human dynamics of the workplace\, how to better understand our own inner theatre\, and how this knowledge can create better managers and leaders.  \n\n\n\nPlease note this is an online event. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nGabriella Braun\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGabriella Braun is the Director of Working Well\, a consultancy firm specialising in helping leaders and teams use in-depth understanding of their dynamics and behaviour to bring about meaningful and sustainable change in their working lives. She has worked with hundreds of clients including the British Library\, RADA\, Tate\, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary\, University of London. She has had psychoanalysis and holds a master’s degree in Consulting to Organisations using a psychoanalytic and systemic approach from the Tavistock Clinic. She was a Principal Consultant in the Tavistock Consultancy Service.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Murphy (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Murphy was formerly Director of the School of Strategic Leadership Studies at James Madison University and Professor of Leadership Studies. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on leadership\, leadership development\, and mentoring. Her most recent edited volume with Rebecca Reichard is Early Development and Leadership: Building the Next Generation of Leaders and an authored book\, Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Protégés Make the Most of Their Relationships\, with Ellen Ensher. She also serves on the editorial board of The Leadership Quarterly.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/emotions-at-work-with-gabriella-braun/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231113T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231113T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T233331
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SUMMARY:Building a Global Movement for Self-Managed Abortion
DESCRIPTION:When governments and regulators fail us\, who can we turn to for leadership? Feminist activists across Latin America\, Africa\, and Europe are making self-managed abortion available to all\, and leading the transnational movement they have built along the way.  \n\n\n\nDrawing on years of research with activists around the world\, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies\, politics\, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills\, information\, and support to people seeking to end unwanted pregnancies. From combatting the legal strictures of Bolsonaro’s Brazil\, to navigating the NGO-dominated landscape of Kenya and Nigeria\, feminist activists are making safe\, accessible abortion care available against the odds.  \n\n\n\nJoin sociologist Naomi Braine\, activist leader Kinga Jelinska and author and behavioural scientist Dr Pragya Agarwal as they discuss the women building a robust transnational feminist network\, the tactics developed in the global south which are now being shared with feminists in Europe and North America\, and building a new model for international feminist solidarity. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is an online event. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nNaomi Braine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNaomi Braine is a Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College\, CUNY. Prior to joining the faculty at Brooklyn\, she worked in the non-profit research sector on issues of drug use and HIV\, and consulted for community-based organizations. Her political and intellectual work addresses gender\, sexuality\, reproductive justice\, wars on drugs and terror\, and health and collective action. Her current work\, as an activist and a research investigator\, is centred on self-managed abortion.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKinga Jelinska\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKinga Jelinska  (she/her) is the co-founder and the executive director of Women Help Women (WHW). WHW is a feminist non-profit that runs a global online service providing counseling and access to abortion pills via post\, works with more than 100 partner groups worldwide on community interventions and changes the norms and discourse around self-managed abortion. Kinga comes from Poland\, where access to abortion is restricted and stigmatized. She is also a co-founder of the Abortion Dream Team in Poland\, and European feminist initiative Abortion Without Borders. Her work focuses on building\, supporting and resourcing autonomous feminist networks for access to abortion medicines.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPragya Agarwal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist. She has held senior academic positions in the UK and USA for over fifteen years and is currently visiting professor of social inequities at Loughborough and a Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford. As well as numerous research papers\, she is the author of three widely acclaimed non-fiction books\, Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias\, Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children about Race and (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman\, and a book Standing Up To Racism for young children. Her writing has also appeared in the Guardian\, Prospect\, BBC Science Focus\, Scientific American and New Scientist amongst others.  A passionate campaigner for racial and gender equity\, Pragya has given keynote talks around the world. Pragya has been awarded the Transmission Prize for making complex scientific ideas accessible and the Nesta Crucible award for scientific innovation. In 2023\, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award\, The Churchill Fellowship and British Library Fellowship. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/building-a-global-movement-for-self-managed-abortion/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231113T140000
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SUMMARY:Speculative Futures Central Scotland #1— Finn Strivens and Eva Oosterlaken
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to a lunchtime conversation on participatory futures with Finn Strivens and Eva Oosterlaken from Futurall\, a research and design studio building hope\, agency and action towards more equitable futures. They will share their work\, approach and next steps in participatory futures practice. Trying to focus on what they would have changed about previous projects\, the event will start an interactive discussion about how collaborative Futures practices can creatively engage people to drive change. \n\n\n\nSpeculative Futures Central Scotland is programmed by Andthen and the Data + Design Lab based at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. We are interested in hosting discussions about applied futures — we want to learn about how people are addressing long-term issues in their organisations\, from understanding the role of long-term thinking in policy design to understanding the challenges of using futures in large corporates. Speculative Futures Central Scotland is a component chapter of the global Speculative Futures community. \n\n\n\nFinn is a designer and futurist\, specialising in playful participation. He is founder and creative lead at Futurall\, and is creative lead on SOIF’s National Strategy for the Next Generations programme; a systems change programme looking to help the UK government to make policy in a long term and participative way. He is an NGFP fellow and the inaugural winner of the NGFP Walkabout Prize. \n\n\n\nEva is a co-founder of creative studio Futurall\, and previously worked as a design researcher for digital supermarket Picnic in Amsterdam where she worked to structurally improve the customer and employee experience across the company. In 2020\, she graduated with a master’s in Global Innovation Design from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London and in 2017 with a bachelor’s in Industrial Design from Delft University of technology.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/speculative-futures-central-scotland-1-finn-strivens-and-eva-oosterlaken/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T233331
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SUMMARY:New Real Salon: “We Speak For...”
DESCRIPTION:Artists help us to navigate profound change surrounding new and emerging technology\, including the most current developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Long before the current generative AI boom\, a community of artists were changing the way we think of AI\, combining powerful activism with inventive exploration. They devise alternative futures\, and champion ethical and community-led approaches to generative AI. This is a vital source of collective sense making and distributed\, bottom-up leadership. \n\n\n\nThe New Real champions the voice of artists in informing AI policy and development. In this event\, The New Real’s Creative Agent\, Caroline Sinders\, convenes a group of practitioners who work on and with AI\, to explore how to navigate these turbulent times. Together they will explore future landscapes for creative AI and what co-creation between AI and artists will look like in the future. \n\n\n\nCritical AI artists provide an essential reference point and source of inspiration\, and yet these voices do not always reach policy makers\, commercial developers\, or scientists in the lab. At this critical moment in generative and creative AI\, it is important to reflect on who and how is included and excluded from its development and how art can help establish new modes of inclusive and collective leadership in this field.  \n\n\n\nThis event will also introduce The New Real’s vision for the coming decade of transformative AI Art\, and launch The New Real Editions\, an exciting new online magazine format for critical and creative exploration of AI\, that includes a reference guide for cultural organisations on working with AI. The New Real Editions’ editor\, journalist\, researcher and author\, Gemma Milne\, will introduce key insights from the first edition and frame the plans for the future ones.  \n\n\n\nAlongside the Salon\, we will host an afternoon workshop to support artists\, curators\, technicians\, festivals\, venues\, funders and audiences in the uptake of actionable insights and strategies for navigating generative AI. The workshop will disseminate best practice\, strategies\, recommendations and signposts to practitioners new to AI\, and promoting legible\, accessible\, open tools and models for artists\, through The New Real’s concept of Experiential AI. If you are interested to participate in the workshop\, please email newreal@ed.ac.uk as soon as possible; we will finalise the participants list by 20th October 2023. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/we-speak-for-the-new-reals-autumn-2023-salon/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T174500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231109T190000
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SUMMARY:Dr Runa Mackay Legacy Lecture | Compassion And Justice: Conversations For Wellbeing Economy
DESCRIPTION:During her long life Edinburgh medical graduate Dr Runa Mackay campaigned for peace and justice. She worked in Nazareth in northern Israel\, in South Lebanon and in the West Bank. She protested with CND and Women in Black\, was active in the Iona Community and raised funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. \n\n\n\nIn this lecture Dr Katherine Trebeck\, a writer-at-large at the Edinburgh Futures Institute of the University of Edinburgh\, co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance\, and member of the Club of Rome\, will honour Runa’s life and legacy. Katherine will explore the concept of a wellbeing economy. She will reflect on how it is not enough to be right in our diagnosis of a problem\, or satisfied by the necessity of our vision for change. Instead the times we face today demand that those working for change\, move beyond the ‘us and them’ approaches to engage in compassionate conversations that build bridges\, understanding\, and shared visions of a better tomorrow. This was how Runa lived her life.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-runa-mackay-legacy-lecture-compassion-and-justice-conversations-for-wellbeing-economy/
LOCATION:Martin Hall\, New College\, The University of Edinburgh\, Mound Place\, Edinburgh\, EH1 2LX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Digital Justice & Policing 2023
DESCRIPTION:Digital and data are transforming the way we deliver justice services in Scotland\, from an enhanced user experience for victims and witnesses\, to better coordination of evidence between policing and the courts. \n\n\n\nDigital Justice & Policing 2023 will bring together stakeholders from across the justice landscape\, to work out the next steps for a system that is remaking itself in the digital age. \n\n\n\nDigital Justice & Policing is the largest gathering for digital justice practitioners in Scotland\, where stakeholders gather to hear how investment in technology is helping the police and courts to modernise frontline service delivery\, from data-driven innovation and smart devices to cloud-based platforms.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/digital-justice-policing-2023/
LOCATION:University of Strathclyde\, Technology & Innovation Centre\, 99 George Street\, Glasgow\, G1 1RD
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231106T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231106T153000
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SUMMARY:Making Space: Creating a Culture of Listening in Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Far too often these days we feel the pressure in our work lives to be busy with tasks\, to get stuff done. We don’t seem to have enough time to make meaningful connections with each other\, and we’re not hearing enough of each other’s ideas\, concerns\, and diverse perspectives. We rush ahead to offer solutions before we’ve had a real chance to pause\, take stock\, listen more to each other. What if we could find a bit more space for listening? \n\n\n\nIn this session we are going to explore what it takes to listen more\, and what happens when we do. We’ll explain what is involved in ‘spaces for listening’\, and share something about the value and the potential of listening – gathered through experiences in around 350 of such spaces convened weekly since May 2020 and involving more than 1600 people from across the UK and beyond. \n\n\n\nWe’ve found that it’s very possible for a small group to meet\, quickly establish enough safety and trust in a relatively short space of time\, and have a meaningful exchange of views and real experiences. And there seems to be a real yearning out there to participate in\, and create\, such spaces. \n\n\n\nBuilding from these many individual and collective experiences of listening\, we’d like to consider what this could mean for how we create and sustain a culture of listening. Our belief is that listening is far more than a set of skills or specific interventions; it’s a way of being with each other. How might this quality of listening and relational connection enable a more open dialogue across our organisations and wider communities? The kind of meaningful and real conversations we all need to be having with each other about the weighty issues facing us all in healthcare and beyond. \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event.  \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.  \n\n\n\n\n\nKristy Docherty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKristy is the Director of Public Services and Sector Engagement Lead at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.  She is responsible for leading on strategy and engagement with public\, private and third sector organisations involved in the delivery of public services. Kristy has a PhD in Collaboration and wicked issues\, her research is focused on how best to work\, lead and collaborate across organisational and disciplinary boundaries.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz is Assistant Principal Global Health and Professor of Global Health and Development. She directs the University’s Global Health Academy and is on the Advisory board of the Academy of Sport. Liz co-directs the Global Compassion Initiative which explores the science and practice of compassion. Her research spans global and planetary health and healthcare in contexts of poverty and conflict – and compassion as the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Deputy International Director of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh (RCPE)\, and sits on the Scottish Government NHS Global Citizenship Board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrigid Russell\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrigid is a coach and facilitator who works alongside people in the public and third sectors across Scotland. She believes in a relational approach to coaching and development. Over the past 3 years she has collaborated with Charlie Jones in convening weekly #SpacesForListening over zoom\, listening to and connecting with many hundreds of people across the UK and beyond. She is undertaking a professional doctorate with HULT Ashridge using an action research approach. Her area of interest in research and practice is around how we bring ourselves into working in a truly relational and collaborative way in community.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie Jones\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie did his undergrad studies at University of Edinburgh and was awarded the Drever Prize for Psychology in 2000. He went on to do a D.Phil. at University of Oxford\, and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University of Plymouth. He has worked in the NHS since 2004. Charlie currently leads a clinical psychology team in Southmead Hospital in Bristol. He has a passion for systemic and relational approaches to working in healthcare\, and how we can create sustainable conditions for safe\, honest conversations with both colleagues and patients. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Diamond (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Diamond is an Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Professional Practice at Edge Hill University in the UK. He works as a critical friend to leaders and practitioners in the not for profit and university sectors. Central to his approach is the active use of conversations and dialogue as a way of developing and strengthening the power of relational practice and learning . He is a co-editor of the internationally focussed Handbook of Teaching Public Administration (2022) and is co-editor of two book series – University-Community Policy Connections and Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management .
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/making-space-listening-and-relational-leadership-in-public-services/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Futures Dreaming 
DESCRIPTION:Our Utopia Labs are ‘no-spaces’\, places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.  \n\n\n\nThe term utopia was coined from Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia\, describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean.  \n\n\n\nThe word comes from Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόποσ (“place”) and means “no-place”\, and strictly describes any non-existent society ‘described in considerable detail’.1  \n\n\n\nIn this session invited speakers will present visions of their Utopia\, which we will (individually or in groups) respond to by creating our own artistic\, thoughtful and creative mini-Utopias. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change.   \n\n\n\n11am-12pm: Introductions and Presentations  \n\n\n\n12pm-1pm: Lunch and Dreaming/Making  \n\n\n\n1pm-2pm: Integration\, Contemplation\, Sharing\, Discussion   \n\n\n\nLunch and materials for creating will be provided. The lab will also include meditation\, poetry reading/listening and simple movement and breathing exercises. All body types and levels of experience welcome.   \n\n\n\nUtopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation\, innovation and collaboration. Our labs curate interactions between academics\, artists\, entrepreneurs\, students and audiences in person and online globally. We are interested in that which is provocative and irreverent as well as that which is nurturing and joyful. Utopia questions are catalysts for inquiry\, learning and creativity. With an emphasis on innovative and experimental ways of communicating\, we will explore meditation\, dialogue and co-creation with the help of a facilitator. Participants consist of University staff and students\, and non-University practitioners.   \n\n\n\nWebsite: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/utopialab/utopia-lab-2023/  \n\n\n\nImportant Notice: This event may be photographed and/or recorded for promotional or recruitment materials for the University and University approved third parties. For further information please contact the organisers.    \n\n\n\n1Sargent\, Lyman Tower (2005). Rüsen\, Jörn; Fehr\, Michael; Reiger\, Thomas W. (eds.). The Necessity of Utopian Thinking: A cross-national perspective. Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Report). New York: Berghahn Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-57181-440-1.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan McCall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan McCall is a Scottish Master Perfumer with over 15 years experience in perfumery. Having worked for a decade as a consultant and perfumer for some of the UK’s most successful fragrance brands\, McCall founded Jorum Laboratories in 2010. Euan’s approach combines advanced perfumery techniques with instinct. Each Jorum creation presents wearers with new olfactory profiles that are original and of the highest quality. Combining a love for natural aromatic essences\, advanced and high-performance manufactured materials and the interplay between the two media every Jorum creation is a rich aromatic story waiting to be discovered. Jorum Studio was founded by McCall and partner Chloe Mullen in 2019. Jorum Studio creates innovative perfumes that are exciting in their newness as well as being highly wearable. Jorum Studio has gained a large and loyal fanbase across the world. www.jorumstudio.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPupak Haghighi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPupak Haghighi is learning to become indigenous to the West Coast of Scotland by building a relationship with the sea and landscape in Moidart and the indigenous community living in Glenuig. She was born in Iran and grew up near the Caspian Sea. She emigrated to Japan with her family in 1984 to get away from the Iran-Iraq war. In 1989-1990 she joined a programme to study peace-making around the world ~ but experienced a deeper war than the one back home. She wrote Theatre O\, Healing from War\, Co-Creating Paradise Earth\, thirty years after her peace studies around the world experience. Theatre O offers a stage to explore the facets of our relationships to the archetypes and to our original stories. By accessing our original stories\, we are able to regain our wholeness. Pupak offers workshops on rewilding ourselves and the world with her husband\, Alan Watson Featherstone in Glen Affric. She has set up a Scottish Charity\, Trees for Hope to facilitate the process of ecological recovery in her native countries. She is a storyteller\, a Scaravelli yoga practitioner\, a massage and somatic healer\, and co-creator of the 1001 mosaic angels for the Fertile Crescent art work. pupakhaghighi.net \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEkaterina Shurkova\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEkaterina Shurkova is a cognitive neuroscientist\, interested in how we connect with the world: how we learn\, play\, communicate\, solve problems\, and change our mind. Her research interests lie in creative problem solving and seeing the world in terms of relations\, including the role of symbols\, metaphors\, and an awareness of space around us in our growth and problem solving. She also has an interest in research on the mind and the brain\, as well as in studies on animism\, ritual\, and ceremony. Ekaterina is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Psychology and runs a private coaching practice\, Symbolic Space.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-futures-dreaming-2/
LOCATION:Project Room (1.06)\, 50 George Square\, 50 George Square\, Newington\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:Defiant Lives: The History of the Disability Rights Movement 
DESCRIPTION:Watch the full film at – https://app.disabilitybusters.com/catalogue  \n\n\n\nDefiant Lives tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States\, Britain and Australia\, introduces the world to the most impressive activists you’ve never heard of.  \n\n\n\nIn this prerecorded conversation\, filmmakers Sarah Barton and Liz Burke join educator and advocate Sinéad Burke to talk the movement over the last five decades\, the making of the film\, and the extraordinary people who put their lives on the line to create a better and very different world where everyone is valued and can participate\, regardless of impairment.   \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a prerecorded event. Captions are available. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Barton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Barton is a 2010 Churchill Fellow with more than 25 years’ filmmaking experience mainly with the disability community. Her first film Untold Desires (1994) about sexuality and disability won the first Logie Award for SBS television and an AFI Award.  In 2003 Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017 Sarah’s feature documentary Defiant Lives about the disability rights movement premiered at Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York.  Sarah runs a video on demand service dedicated to streaming great films about disability.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Burke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Burke is an award – winning documentary filmmaker and producer.  She has had feature and television hour documentary films commissioned by ABC and SBS Television in Australia. This includes Defiant Lives (2017)\, about the history of the disability rights movement in the USA\, UK and Australia. She is a lecturer in  film producing at Swinburne University of Technology\, in the BA (Film\, Games & Animation). She is currently producing the feature documentary\, Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration\, about the late great disability activist Stella Young. She is the co-editor of Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory (2023).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad Burke (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad Burke is a Disabled educator\, advocate and author who champions accessibility\, equity and social justice to build a better world for everyone. In 2020\, she founded the accessibility consultancy Tilting the Lens on the three pillars of education\, advocacy and design. Advising major global brands including Gucci\, Ralph Lauren\, Netflix\, Pinterest and Starbucks\, Tilting the Lens guides clients in their move from awareness to action by creating more accessible practices\, policies\, products and services\, places and promotions.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/defiant-lives-the-history-of-the-disability-rights-movement/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Reforms: regulatory frameworks for driving growth and competitiveness
DESCRIPTION:In this joint event held with the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations and the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will speak on the regulatory issues emanating from the implementation of the UK government’s vision for an internationally competitive and innovative financial services sector in the UK. \n\n\n\nOn a visit to Edinburgh in December 2022\, the Chancellor of the Exchequer\, Jeremy Hunt\, unveiled the ‘Edinburgh Reforms’\, a package of policy measures conceived to advance the UK government’s vision for a sustainable\, open\, technologically advanced\, and globally competitive financial services sector. In addition to an ambitious set of proposals to reform the UK system of financial services and markets regulatory architecture\, they also include plans for a repeal and replacement of legacy EU financial services legislation\, thus potentially leading to further divergence from EU law. Therefore\, when fully implemented\, the reforms will encapsulate the most significant change to financial services and markets regulation in the UK since the introduction of the Financial Services and Markets Act in 2000. \n\n\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority plays a central role in the delivery of the Edinburgh Reforms\, a point underscored by the issuance of new remit letters to it and the Prudential Regulation Authority by Mr Hunt one day ahead of the unveiling of the reforms; the letter to the FCA sets out “clear\, (and) targeted recommendations”on how the Financial Conduct Authority may support the government’s objectives on economic growth and international competitiveness of the UK. \n\n\n\nIn this public lecture\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will address these issues in the context of the Financial Conduct Authority’s primary objectives of protecting consumers from bad conduct\, protecting the integrity of the UK financial system\, and promoting effective competition in the interests of consumers. \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Professor Gbenga Ibikunle\, Chair of Finance and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-reforms-regulatory-frameworks-for-driving-growth-and-competitiveness/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Black History Month: Leaning into the Meta-Physics of Liberation 
DESCRIPTION:This Black History Month event will take on a long-discussed topic in the Black and Afrocentric movements across the world: the challenged idea and risks of leadership. The panel will explore different contexts in which Black people have made expressions of change and strategic collective work towards anti- and de-colonial liberations.  \n\n\n\nThis event was programmed in collaboration with RACE.ED. \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nTiffany Holloman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Tiffany R. Holloman\, FRSA is the project manager for Brad-ATTIAN and YCEDE in the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford. She is co-founder and co-director of Same Skies Think Tank\, as well as a consulting lecturer at RADA in early modern history. Her sociological research examines race and education in the UK and US and her historical research investigates King James VI&I in Early Modern Britain. She is the author of several articles\, chapters\, as well as a co-editor of two books. Her activism stems from a desire to work with community members in the elevation of human development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoenix Nacto\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoenix Nacto – Traore is currently the Research Impact Officer at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Arts and Humanities. Phoenix’s academic journey has seen her deeply engaged in advancing the understanding of underrepresented narratives. Her insights contribute to fields such as Black Queer Theory\, Black Feminist Decolonial Thought\, and Popular Culture. With a B.A in Women’s Studies from Spelman College (U.S) and an M.A in Gender and International Development from the University of East Anglia (U.K)\, Phoenix integrates academic insight into her dedication\, effectively wielding the power of storytelling and theory through poetry. This approach fosters innovation in her work that reaches far beyond traditional academia.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharon Anyiam\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharon is a passionate Lecturer pursuing a PhD in Sociology\, her research delves into contemporary Black activism\, investigating millennial narratives of criminalization and resistance. Her academic passions intersect at the crossroads of race/ethnicity\, (anti)racism\, and social justice\, unravelling intricate intersections within these domains. \n\n\n\nBeyond academia\, Sharon’s journey extends into community organizing\, where she has a rich background as a community facilitator. Engaging in grassroots anti-racist campaigns on local\, regional\, and global levels\, she collaborates with activists and researchers globally\, including the United States\, Brazil\, and Kenya. Currently certifying as a Doula\, she advocates for maternal health in marginalised groups\, embodying her commitment to community well-being. Sharon’s commitment extends beyond her professional pursuits. As a mother to young children\, she is dedicated to fostering meaningful dialogues and spaces for early engagement with social justice thought and practices. This drive led to her co-founding Cultivate—an anti-racist agency providing targeted impactful training\, workshops\, and consultations for individuals and organisation closely interacting with young children. Sharon’s fusion of academic prowess and community-driven activism exemplifies the potential for transformative change through research and community building \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDimah Mahmoud\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Dimah Mahmoud is a humanist by practice\, actionist by choice\, and passionate change-maker by learning. Dimah uses her words – written & spoken – as sacred medicine drawing on the HER in HERitage to activate the EYE in Collect-i-ve. With 15+ years of facilitating order by manipulating chaos\, she excels at co-creating grassroot sustainable solutions by leveraging knowledge\, skills and expertise to build alliances for inclusive collective growth with a deliberate focus on the holistic liberation of people of African and Indigenous Ancestry. Dimah holds a PhD in Sudanese Foreign Policy and international legitimacy from the University of Exeter.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatucha Bento (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Katucha Bento is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies\, Co-Director of Race.ED Network at the University of Edinburgh\, and the co-founder of the Free Afro-Brazilian University (UNAFRO). She is associate editor of the journal “Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power”. Her main inspirations are in quilombo and samba communities’ epistemologies and praxis\, reaching out to Black feminists and Queer subversive language to promote ethics of caring and power to the people.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/black-history-month-leaning-into-the-meta-physics-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
DESCRIPTION:Take three top academics\, some dangerous ideas\, add one comedian and it’s the force of nature that is the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CODI). Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison\, and now in its eleventh year\, CODI is ninety minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country. \n\n\n\nYou can’t search Google for poetry \n\n\n\nIt’s true! Every word you search for on Google is auctioned to the highest bidder\, but it’s the commercial rather than poetic value of the word that determines the results you see. Artist and researcher Dr Pip Thornton (The University of Edinburgh) explores what words are worth to Google\, to you\, and why it matters. \n\n\n\nEveryone lies to us \n\n\n\nPoliticians\, advertisers\, social media: everyone is lying to us. Worse\, sometimes they’re not exactly lying\, but they’re misleading us and we’d really like to explain how. Linguistics\, for once in its miserable existence\, can help. Dr Chris Cummins (The University of Edinburgh) explains how we can use ideas about communication to measure how misleading a statement is\, and how trusting\, or suspicious\, we need to be in order to get a clear picture of what’s actually going on. \n\n\n\nStop Being Disciplined! \n\n\n\nHow can we respond to an increasingly complex and challenging world? Can we stop playing by the rules? We need playful\, messy\, and unpredictable spaces where new approaches can be developed. Dr David Overend (The University of Edinburgh) explores a series of wild and weird experiments with artists\, scientists and geographers; then asks some difficult questions about how we should work together\, share ideas and respond to the big challenges facing our world today. Can we all become a bit less disciplined? \n\n\n\nCODI is curated by the University of Edinburgh as part of Beltane Public Engagement Network and produced by Fair Pley.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-cabaret-of-dangerous-ideas/
LOCATION:The Stand Comedy Club\, 5 York Place\, Edinburgh\, EH1 3EB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Means of Computation with Cory Doctorow 
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be hosting Cory Doctorow in conversation with Morgan Meaker about his book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.   \n\n\n\nWhen the tech platforms promised a future of “connection\,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe\, but those were prison walls.  \n\n\n\nLocked into their systems by design\, we are held hostage by Twitter\, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms who threaten us with lost connection if we delete our accounts.   \n\n\n\nThe solution is simple: interoperability (a dirty word in Silicon Valley). Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies\, allowing users leave platforms\, remix their media\, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow is a science fiction author\, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books\, nonfiction and fiction\, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate\, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University\, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGina Helfrich\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gina Helfrich is Baillie Gifford Programme Manager for the Centre for Technomoral Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh. Previously\, she served as Senior Program Officer for Global Technology at Internews\, where she managed global technology programs to promote and protect Internet Freedom and digital rights. Dr. Helfrich has spent the bulk of her career working to make technology better serve the needs of historically marginalised and at-risk people. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University with a specialisation in ethics and women’s and gender studies.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:FutureGaze: The Future of Creative Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:FutureGaze is a lunchtime series brought to you by Creative Edinburgh\, providing time out to reflect and gaze into the future of the creative industries. \n\n\n\nIn conversation with Caroline Parkinson\, we welcome creative leaders who have innovated and led significant changes in their creative business\, organisation\, artistic or academic practice over the past year to share what the future looks like for them – and for the creative and cultural sector. \n\n\n\nJoin us as we collectively gaze into the future of the creative and cultural sector\, stimulate ideas for your creative future\, and get inspired to strive towards it. \n\n\n\nNot a member of Creative Edinburgh yet? It’s free to join click here. \n\n\n\nBy registering to our events you will automatically be given a free Creative Edinburgh Core membership. You can cancel this at any time. You will not be able to attend our events unless you are on a Creative Edinburgh membership package including Core. \n\n\n\nWhat does FutureGaze explore?\n\n\n\nFrom new ways of exploring creative investments to new ways of measuring creative impact\, FutureGaze will cover a range of themes in 2023 aimed at creative freelancers\, sole traders\, and businesses. \n\n\n\nJoined by a line-up from across the creative industries\, Caroline will delve into the challenges and opportunities\, the shifts in thinking and practice they have made over the past couple of years and explore what’s been learned through these changes. \n\n\n\nWe will reflect on the changing landscape facing the creative industries and look to the future to consider how the creative and cultural sector may need to adapt in order to sustain\, maximise potential through innovation and thrive. \n\n\n\nOctober’s Discussion: The Future of Creative Inclusion\n\n\n\nCreativity thrives on a diversity of voices\, perspectives\, and experiences\, and we in the creative and cultural sector work towards widening access\, inclusion and diversity in our industry and representation in the creative work produced. \n\n\n\nHow are we doing as a sector in achieving a positive difference\, and tackling the challenges to achieving greater diversity and inclusion? \n\n\n\nWhat are our strategies for equality\, diversity\, inclusion and access? How successful have been the initiatives we have designed? Is there a greater need to share our learning and our initiatives that have worked even in part\, so we can widen access\, reduce obstacles\, improve opportunity and achieve our aims? \n\n\n\nIn this FutureGaze our speakers will explore these questions\, and share what they have learned from their experiences and challenges\, with examples of strategies and initiatives that have achieved a positive difference. \n\n\n\nAbout our Guests\n\n\n\nNicola Osborne \n\n\n\nNicola Osborne is Manager of the Institute for Design Informatics\, at The University of Edinburgh and Programme Manager for the Creative Informatics Cluster programme\, sited within the Institute. She authored the Equalities\, Diversity and Inclusion policy for the programme\, and co-authored the ethics guidance\, and regularly works with SMEs to ensure their innovative work is inclusive and ethically grounded. \n\n\n\nShe has also contributed social media expertise to UK and EU research projects and through consultancy with clients including\, the British HIV Association\, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde\, and Asthma UK. \n\n\n\nMelanie Hoyes \n\n\n\nHaving completed postgraduate studies and teaching film and TV at undergraduate level\, the BFI has given Mel the opportunity to use these skills in a contemporary industry context. She completed a BFI research project to historically map ethnic diversity in onscreen representation in UK film for the Black Star season at the BFI Southbank in 2016\, ground-breaking research and data methodology which was written up in a piece and Sight & Sound Magazine and an academic collection of essays called Black Film\, British Cinema II. In her role as Head of Inclusion at the BFI\, Melanie advocates for increased access and equity in the UK film sector as well as consulting and collaborating with global partners to embed diversity and inclusion into policy and practice. \n\n\n\nShe also sits on various Boards and committees and is the Europe Council Lead for the Geena Davis Institute and co-editor of the Black Film Bulletin section in Sight and Sound magazine. \n\n\n\nAbout our host\n\n\n\nCaroline Parkinson \n\n\n\nCaroline is Sector Engagement Manager for the Creative Industries and Director of Creative for the Edinburgh Futures Institute having previously developed the sector plan and white paper for the creative industries for the Data-Driven Innovation Programme within the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this from 2014 to 2018 she provided consultancy in the creative industries specialising in business development\, innovation and skills\, latterly completing a 2-year contract to stimulate innovation in creative industries with Interface. From 2010 to 2014 she was Director of Film\, TV\, Music\, Creative Industries\, Skills & Innovation for the newly formed Creative Scotland\, and prior to that from 2005 to 2010 she was Director\, Scotland & Northern Ireland for the new sector skills association\, Creative & Cultural Skills. \n\n\n\nHer early creative life included ballet and rhythmic gymnastics\, fashion\, singing in bands for over 30 years\, and photography\, becoming a professional photographer in 1999. \n\n\n\nShe serves on the Board of Architecture & Design Scotland\, and until recently served on the board of the Scottish Music Industry Association\, and for four years has served in a voluntary capacity as Strategic Director and Presenter of the MOVE Summit\, Scotland’s Animation and VFX Gathering.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/futuregaze-the-future-of-creative-inclusion/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Handing Over Control with David Runciman
DESCRIPTION:‘The Singularity’ is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that\, eventually\, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago\, humans started building the robots that now rule our world. They are called states and corporations: immensely powerful artificial entities\, with capacities that go far beyond what any individual can do\, and which\, unlike us\, need never die. They have made us richer\, safer and healthier than would have seemed possible even a few generations ago – and they may yet destroy us.   \n\n\n\nJoin Professor David Runciman in conversation with Professor Shannon Vallor about his latest book\, The Handover\, which distills over three hundred years of thinking about how to live with artificial agency.  \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a hybrid event.   \n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.  \n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Runciman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the former Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. His books include Where Power Stops\, How Democracy Ends\, and The Confidence Trap. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books. He hosted the widely acclaimed weekly podcast Talking Politics and now hosts the weekly podcast Past Present Future.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and co-directs the AHRC’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Vallor’s research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character\, and maps the ethical challenges and opportunities posed by new uses of data and artificial intelligence. Her work includes advising academia\, government and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/handing-over-control-with-david-runciman/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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