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SUMMARY:AISOMA: Wayne McGregor x Edinburgh Futures Institute
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Studio Wayne McGregor \n\n\n\nStudio Wayne McGregor will deliver a creative residency culminating in a performance. The creative residency will centre on McGregor’s AI.Soma – a world’s first\, machine learning choreographic tool developed specifically for McGregor with Google Arts and Culture Lab. During the residency\, 12 students from a range of dance backgrounds studying on MSc Dance Science & Education programme at Moray House School of Education and Sport\, will be introduced to the AI tool\, learn excerpts of McGregor’s AI repertory and use AI.Soma to develop their own choreographic material\, which Studio Wayne McGregor artists will then develop into a 20 minute public sharing performed by the dance artists. This Residency offers an opportunity for the Participants to gain exclusive insight into McGregor’s artistic process\, and the creative process of his closest collaborators\, Company Wayne McGregor. Studio Wayne McGregor has developed a consummate reputation for transformative approaches to how dance is taught\, learned\, and spoken about. To date\, over 100\,000 people of all ages and experiences have participated in our workshops and residencies across the UK and internationally\, from school children to adults\, and professional dancers to those who have never danced before. \n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Bassett-Graham\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally from New Zealand\, Rebecca Bassett-Graham trained as a contemporary major at the New Zealand School of Dance. After graduating in 2011\, she joined New Zealand Dance Company as an inaugural intern before moving to Townsville\, Australia to work with DanceNorth. Rebecca freelanced between New Zealand and Australia working with various choreographers including Ross McCormack and Sarah Foster-Sproull. She moved to London in 2013 and continued to work as a freelance dancer across the UK and Europe. Rebecca joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Lyons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Lyons is a composer\, pianist and multi-instrumentalist. He is active in classical\, folk and jazz music. He recently soundtracked his first full-length feature film and he is much in demand as an arranger and orchestrator. He has founded some of Scotland’s most unusual bands: 8 piece Celtic-Balkan festival favourites Blue Giant Orkestar and the 9 piece contemporary vocal folk ensemble Samodiva Nestya. He also plays violin in the ensemble Hegedu. In the field of music technology\, he has been quite active in the live coding scene. Chris is known for playing an unusually large number of instruments and he is held in high regard as a music educator. He is a founder of ‘Leith New Music’\, the world’s most informal art-music event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Heather Rikic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Rikic is the programme director of the University’s MSc Dance Science and Education programme and a teaching fellow on postgraduate and undergraduate courses at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Before moving to Edinburgh\, Heather performed for various independent contemporary choreographers in New York City\, USA and Belgrade\, Serbia; taught learners of various ages and abilities including as a teaching artist for Alonzo King LINES Dance Center (San Francisco\, USA)\, New York City Ballet’s education department\, KC Magacin (Belgrade\, Serbia)\, Dance Base (Edinburgh) and currently teaches Cunningham Technique® at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow). 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/aisoma-wayne-mcgregor-x-efi/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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SUMMARY:CTMF Flagship Lecture with Professor C. Thi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Value Capture and Algorithmic Policies: Outsourcing our Values to Technology\n\n\n\nJoin this Centre for Technomoral Futures Flagship Lecture event\, in person or online\, where you will gain valuable insights from award-winning author and philosopher\, Professor C. Thi Nguyen\, on technology’s role in shaping human values. \n\n\n\nAbstract: The values that govern our lives are increasingly explicit: defined by algorithms and institutions to be as clear\, precise and quantifiable as possible. Think of gamified point systems in apps like FitBit or Duolingo\, likes and shares on Twitter and TikTok\, and knowledge metrics like citation rates\, impact factors and pageviews. In this talk\, Professor Nguyen explores two dangers of adopting these values as our own: value capture and value collapse. In value capture\, we outsource the process of deciding what to value to some company or technology\, no longer adjusting our values in light of our own rich experience of the world. In value collapse\, overly explicit values make us closed-minded about what’s important in the world. Join us as Professor Nguyen invites a conversation about the value of values\, and how to keep them ours. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Friday 18 October at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nProfessor Nguyen’s lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ctmf-flagship-lecture-with-professor-c-thi-nguyen/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: Crisis
DESCRIPTION: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 first conversation in the series will focus on education through the crises of war\, emergency\, unrest and exclusion. It brings together a panel of high-profile leaders and campaigners for education in such contexts and will include the opportunity to hear from students who have lived through education in crisis in Pakistan and Gaza. It will also feature the launch of a new commissioned work from the Iranian poet Marjorie Lotfi\, based on the words of displaced and excluded women in Scotland. \n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif is the Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW)\, the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. A lawyer specialized in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M)\, she has over 30 years of experience with the United Nations and international NGOs.Ms. Sherif has served in some of the most crisis-affected areas of the world\, including Afghanistan and the Middle East\, the Balkans\, Cambodia\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan. She has also led teams in New York and Geneva – from where she continues to conduct regular missions to countries affected by armed conflicts\, forced displacement\, climate-induced disasters and other crises. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSir Julian Smith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulian was recently appointed Executive Chair of the International Finance Facility for Education. Developed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown\, IFFED is a Geneva-based foundation providing a financing engine for global education. It is specifically designed to tackle the education crisis in lower-middle-income countries. \n\n\n\nJulian has been the Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon since 2010. He was a Ministerial aid in the Department for International development from 2010-2015. From 2017-2019 he was Government Chief Whip during the Brexit period and led efforts to resolve the parliamentary impasse in Government and across parties in parliament. \n\n\n\nJulian was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in July 2019. On behalf of the UK Government\, he led the negotiations that culminated in the “New Decade\, New Approach” which restored devolved Government to Northern Ireland. He was awarded Spectator magazine’s Minister of the Year in 2020 following the deal. \n\n\n\nDuring his time as Secretary of State\, Julian delivered same sex marriage and abortion legislation\, bringing Northern Ireland’s social laws into line with the rest of the UK. In addition Julian led the introduction of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) (Northern Ireland) Act 2019 which established the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board and which delivered a redress scheme and compensation to victims of child abuse who had waited for decades for resolution. \n\n\n\nMore recently Julian has advised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak including on the Windsor Framework UK/EU reset deal and the recent restoration of government in Northern Ireland. He acted as mediator between the Royal College of Nurses and the Government to resolve the recent nurses strike and has worked on a number of other industrial and commercial disputes in Government. \n\n\n\nJulian currently Chairs the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Taskforce on  Alternative Dispute Resolution for Electricity Network Infrastructure. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Bath in the recent 2024 dissolution honours list for political and public service. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz is an education advocate whose journey on this path began when her school-van was attacked by the Taliban. She decided to seek education as a revenge against that attack. Today\, she is an advocate for girls’ education and education in general\, and a co-founder and Director for girls’ education at ‘Beydaar Society’\, an NGO working in Pakistan to help promote peace & harmony by using education as a tool. Among other recognitions\, she has been decorated with a national award granted by the President of Pakistan\, Tamgha e Shuja’at (National Medal of Bravery)\, Human Rights Defender Award\, GG2 Award\, Ladies Fund Awards\, etc. She believes that through education this world can become a better and more peaceful place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans\, moved to Tehran as a baby with her American mother and Persian father\, and fled Iran with one suitcase and an hour’s notice during the Iranian Revolution. After waiting with family for her father’s return in her mother’s tiny hometown in Ohio\, she lived in different parts of the US before moving to New York as a young lawyer in 1996 and then back and forth to the UK\, settling in the UK in 1999\, and in Scotland in 2005. Marjorie Lotfi’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in the UK and US (including The Rialto\, Gutter\, Ambit\, Magma\, Rattle and Staying Human)\, included in Best Scottish Poems 2021 and performed on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 4. Her pamphlet Refuge\, poems about her childhood in revolutionary Iran\, was published by Tapsalteerie Press in 2018. She was one of the three winners of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021\, and her first book-length collection\, The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books\, 2023) is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in global development gained through her service in multilateral organizations\, government\, nonprofit\, and more recently the private sector. She started her career at the World Bank\, where she worked for 20 years\, holding several technical and managerial positions in Africa\, Latin America and Eastern Europe. She was then appointed Director General of the Italian Overseas Development Agency\, with theresponsibility of setting up the newly created agency under the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining GPE\, Laura led the Global Development Assistance Service Practice at KPMG\, which supports initiatives that create real value for investors and for society. In the aftermath of the pandemic\, an increasing amount of her work related to vaccine distribution and COVID-related issues\, as well as supporting governments in implementing various types of social protection measures to sustain the most vulnerable groups.  Her senior roles at the World Bank\, where she worked extensively in the human development sector\, ashead of a bilateral development agency\, and more recently as head of a large practice in a global consulting firm\, give her a deep familiarity with GPE\, the issues that GPE is trying to address\, and the global development space where its work is situated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed is a Ph.D candidate at Edinburgh University Business School and a Council for At Risk Academics Home (cara.ngo) Fellow. Amani trained as an electrical engineer  and worked as Head of the International Relations at the Islamic University of Gaza.  Since 2023 she is a member of the EU- Higher Education Reform Experts- Palestine chamber  (HEREs). She has a research interest in women’s digital entrepreneurship\, entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict contexts\, as well as internationalisation of Higher Education under siege and in conflict context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown is Chair of the global children’s charity Theirworld and Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Since she founded Theirworld in 2002\, its campaigns\, advocacy and ground-breaking programmes have been rooted in the belief that every child deserves the best start in life\, a safe place to learn and skills for the future.Working with government\, business\, philanthropy and civil society\, Sarah has succeeded in creating lasting change for the world’s most vulnerable children. As a passionate advocate that every child should have the opportunity of an education\, Sarah has shifted international political will on the provision of education in emergencies\, and on the need for innovative funding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant is one of the University’s Assistant Principals with a remit for Global Health. She is Professor of Global Health and Development\, directs the Global Health Academy\,  convenes the Chaplaincy Committee and sits on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Sport and  on the Programme Board Education Beyond Borders. 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 co-directs the MSc in Planetary Health in Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and the MSc Family Medicine in  the Usher Institute. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-crisis/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor
DESCRIPTION:The School of Philosophy\, Psychology and Language Sciences is very proud to announce the inaugural lecture of\, Professor Shannon Vallor\, which will take place in the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, with a private reception to follow. \n\n\n\nHer lecture is entitled\, ‘In a Mirror\, Dimly: Why AI Can’t Tell Our Stories\, and Why We Must’. \n\n\n\nThe event is open to the public and all colleagues\, friends and students are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)\, and is Programme Director for EFI’s MSc in Data and AI Ethics. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Vallor joined the Futures Institute in 2020 following a career in the United States as a leader in the ethics of emerging technologies\, including a post as a visiting AI Ethicist at Google from 2018-2020. She is the author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press\, 2024) and Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press\, 2016). She serves as advisor to government and industry bodies on responsible AI and data ethics. She is also Principal Investigator and Co-Director (with Professor Ewa Luger) of the UKRI research programme BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides)\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugural-lecture-of-professor-shannon-vallor/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-4/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Critical Data Studies Cluster Coffee Morning
DESCRIPTION:The Critical Data Studies Cluster in EFI is an interdisciplinary initiative that welcomes people from across the University and beyond who study datafication and data-driven systems. Please join us for a morning coffee and natter to gather and meet others with similar research interests.No booking required. \n\n\n\nFor more information about the Critical Data Studies Cluster\, visit this page. \n\n\n\nImage credit: Fritzchens Fritz / Better Images of AI / GPU shot etched 1 / CC-BY 4.0 (from https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=FritzchensFritz&title=GPUshotetched1)
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/critical-data-studies-cluster-coffee-morning/
LOCATION:Room 1.82\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Coffee Morning
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Visions for fair\, inclusive and democratic education futures have long been expanded through the work of UNESCO and others. However global education policy is still powered by visions of economic growth and operates through the day-to-day machinery of measurement and performance management. This panel brings together a group of high-profile academics\, activists and creatives to debate what kind of alternative education futures are desirable. What do we need to unlearn in education\, as we work toward more just and sustainable futures? How might we re-think measurement and standardisation? What is the role of education for democracy in an increasingly polarized world? Can education become a living utopia\, and what waystations are available to us as we build it? The event will also include the launch of a newly commissioned work from the award-winning poet Joelle Taylor. \n\n\n\n\n\nKoumbou Boly Barry\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Koumbou Boly Barry is the adviser to the Director General of ICESCO Dr. Salim M. AlMalik. She is a United Nation Former Special Rapporteur on the right to education. Dr. Boly Barry holds a PhD in Economic History from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. She is the former Minister of Education and Literacy of Burkina Faso and has consulted widely for various governments and international institutions on the right to education. She was also appointed Ambassador of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Dr. Boly Barry has been an advocate on gender issues in education. She also has ample knowledge and experience in training and research\, as a visiting professor at University of Nottingham\, United Kingdom\, University of Louvain La Neuve\, Belgium\, and as a lecturer at Ouagadougou University\, Burkina Faso\, Vitoria University\, Brazil\, Georgetown University in United States and Fribourg University\, Switzerland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadhika Gorur\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadhika Gorur is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her research spans education policy and reform; global aid and development in education; data infrastructures and data cultures; accountability and governance; large-scale comparisons; and the sociology of knowledge. She is interested in the social and political lives of data and in how policies get mobilised\, stabilised\, circulated and challenged. Radhika is a founding director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies\, convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network\, and a founding member of the international STudieS network. She is an editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoelle Taylor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize\, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre\, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues\, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including the Jerwood Fellowship\, the Forward Prize\, and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet was published recently and was followed by a UK tour of a staged version of the novel\, directed by Neil Bartlett. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. In 2024 she was honoured by DIVA magazine for her work and was added to the Guardian’s Pride Power List. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSotiria Grek (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSotiria Grek is Professor of European and Global Education Governance at the School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh. Sotiria’s work focuses on the field of quantification in global public policy\, with a specialisation in the policy arenas of education and sustainable development. She has received funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council\, as well as from the Swedish Research Council. In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant\, entitled “International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field” (METRO\, 2017-2022). She is also the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant\, which focuses on ‘Art and Policy in the Global Contemporary: Examining the Role of the Arts in the Production of Public Policy’ (POLART\, 2024-2029). She has co-authored (with Martin Lawn) Europeanising Education: Governing A New Policy Space (Symposium\, 2012) and co-edited (with Joakim Lindgren) Governing by Inspection (Routledge\, 2015)\, as well as the World Yearbook in Education: Accountability and Datafication in Education (with Christian Maroy and Antoni Verger; Routledge\, 2021). Her most recent books (with Justyna Bandola-Gill and Marlee Tichenor) are Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Public Policy (Springer\, 2022) and The New Production of Expert Knowledge: Education\, Quantification and Utopia (Palgrave\, 2024).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-utopia/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Numbers: Queer Data and the Counting of LGBTQ Communities
DESCRIPTION:Whether we use surveys or interviews\, ethnographies or focus groups – the methods we deploy as researchers do not arrive with us as some sort of apolitical or ahistorical artefact. They do not collect information about the outside world that is static\, fixed and simply waiting to be uncovered. Rather\, methods are crafted\, tweaked and changed to serve the particular interests of individuals\, organisations or ways of thinking. \n\n\n\nSo what does this mean for projects investigating the lives and experiences of LGBTQ communities? Do methods equally convey the experiences of the most minoritised and least minoritised in minority groups? And might the methods we deploy in our research construct ideas about the groups under investigation? \n\n\n\nDeparting from the idea that we always need to collect more or better data\, Dr Kevin Guyan will share his work on queer approaches to the collection\, analysis and presentation of data and pose critical questions about neutrality\, biases\, politics and power. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Guyan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kevin Guyan is a researcher and writer whose work explores the intersection of data and identity\, particularly as it relates to LGBTQ people in the UK. He is author of the book Queer Data: Using Gender\, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury\, 2022) and works as a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-politics-of-numbers-queer-data-and-the-counting-of-lgbtq-communities/
LOCATION:Room 2.35\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
CREATED:20241023T152816Z
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SUMMARY:A digital economy in crisis: Palestine’s tech sector and the road to economic recovery
DESCRIPTION:The Palestinian tech sector has long been vibrant and resilient. It has flourished in the West Bank despite the violence of the Israeli occupation and its restrictions of movement\, and remains one of few sources of employment and hope for skilled youth in the Gaza Strip. Even as the current onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 41.600 people and destroyed or damaged around a quarter of buildings and infrastructure\, some Palestinians in Gaza continue to work as online freelancers and remote workers against all odds. Since 2011\, Gaza Sky Geeks has provided freelancers\, founders\, and coders with the technical training and support they need to earn an income online and remotely. It remains one of Palestine’s most important bridge builders between a young skilled workforce and a global digital marketplace.  \n\n\n\nThis public event brings Gaza Sky Geeks in conversation with researchers at the University of Edinburgh in response to a pressing key challenge: How can Palestine’s digital economy remain resilient in the current crisis and what role will it play in the road to economic recovery? \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Digital Economy and Society (DES) Research Cluster at the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, which is directed by Andreas Hackl and Mohammad Amir Anwar. \n\n\n\nKey speakers\n\n\n\nAlan El-Kadhi\, Director of Gaza Sky Geeks at Mercy Corps \n\n\n\nHaneen Bader\, Gaza Sky Geeks Community and Mentorship Officer \n\n\n\n Andreas Hackl\, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Development\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nModerator: Mohammad Amir Anwar\, Senior Lecturer in African Studies and International Development\, University of Edinburgh \n\n\n\nPlease book your advance ticket here as capacity for in-person attendance will be limited and pre-registration is required for online participation.  \n\n\n\nThe event is followed by a reception to allow for further discussion and networking.  \n\n\n\nA call for action\n\n\n\nAs part of the event\, Gaza Sky Geeks has called for collaboration and support in these difficult times.  \n\n\n\nThis call is addressed to: \n\n\n\n\nMembers of the international tech community to help Palestinians improve their technical and employability skills to increase their chances of finding work\n\n\n\nEmployers and universities who can offer outsourcing work and/or remote internships to the talent pool of Gaza Sky Geeks\n\n\n\nBusiness Advisors who can help Palestinian tech companies access new international markets & customers.\n\n\n\nUniversities that can offer scholarships to Palestinians.\n\n\n\nHumanitarian Legal advisors who can advise Gazans who have relocated to Egypt but now need help to relocate to other countries.\n\n\n\nPsycho-social support experts to support Gazans recover from their extreme levels of trauma.\n\n\n\norporates\, Foundations and Governments who can provide financial support for GSG’s programmes in Gaza and West Bank. \n\n\n\n\nPlease get in touch with: info@gazaskygeeks.com
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-digital-economy-in-crisis-palestines-tech-sector-and-the-road-to-economic-recovery/
LOCATION:MacLaren Stuart Room (G.159)\, University of Edinburgh\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241103T103000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-11/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:Poetry for Change and Action
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism. In the first hour we will explore how poems have been used to speak truth to power and lift up seldom heard voices. In the second hour we will help you think about how you might use poetry with the people you work with to support them to share their experiences and inspire change through writing poetry. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be similar but each will explore a different theme or issue of social significance. You may take the workshops as a sequence or only attend one. \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops will be run online and the third will be run in-person at Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nThe Eventbrite linked on this page is for the online sessions. Follow this link to register for the in-person session on 14 November.  \n\n\n\nFacilitators:\n\n\n\nProfessor Sam Illingworth works at Edinburgh Napier University and is a world-leading expert in the intersections of poetry\, research\, and pedagogy. He is also the founder of Consilience\, the world’s first science and poetry journal. Find out more about Sam and his work at www.samillingworth.com. \n\n\n\nDr Autumn Roesch-Marsh works at the University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She is Co-Director of The Binks Hub\, which seeks to co-create research with communities using arts engaged methods to promote human flourishing. She recently worked with the Scottish Poetry Library on a Poetry for Wellbeing project for Social Workers. You can access the resources developed for this project here: Running Your Own Poetry for Wellbeing Workshops – Projects – Scottish Poetry Library
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/poetry-for-change-and-action/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241101T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
DESCRIPTION:Video games have emerged as a powerful educational tool\, one of the most significant ways in which the public engages with the past. Moreover\, games and immersive digital experiences offer historians of visual culture a way to shape more inclusive and authentic public perceptions of the past by making academic research widely accessible to audiences outside the academy.In this panel event bridging video games and education\, our guest speakers neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy\, Islamic art historian Glaire Anderson (Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections\, University of Edinburgh)\, Maxime Durand (Ubisoft/Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour)\, and Chris van der Kuyl (Minecraft)\, will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development\, and the gamification of education – including how video games are making education and knowledge widely accessible\, and informing public perceptions of the past. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Glaire Anderson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Glaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art in the School of History of Art and Founding Director of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is also Programme Director for the MSc in History of Art\, Theory\, and Display (HATD). An award-winning author\, her most recent book A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of Abbas Ibn Firnas was published by Oxford University Press in 2024. She works across the academic\, games\, and GLAM (Galleries\, Libraries\, Archives\, Museums) sectors and was an historian for Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ubisoft\, 2023) and its educational Codex feature\, ‘History of Baghdad’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Clancy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelly Clancy\, PhD\, is a neuroscientist and physicist who has held research positions at MIT\, Berkeley\, University College London\, and DeepMind. She develops novel brain-computer interfaces with the aim of understanding the principles of intelligence. Her writing has appeared in Wired\, Harper’s and The New Yorker. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaxime Durand\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaxime Durand is an award-winning world-design director for the videogame company Ubisoft. Graduated in history\, he has collaborated on inspirational authenticity for multiple games of the blockbuster Assassin’s Creed franchise. Maxime co-created and directed the Discovery Tour series\, a research-led public history project made in partnership with educators & museums. Having previously collaborated with the University of Edinburgh’s teams at the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections\, Maxime is pursuing under their guidance a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship to further collaborate at the intersection of technology and public engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris van der Kuyl\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris van der Kuyl is one of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs working across the technology\, media\, gaming and entertainment sectors. Chris is most notably co-founder and chairman of multiple award-winning games developer 4J Studios\, best known for developing Minecraft for Microsoft\, Sony and Nintendo games consoles. He and fellow co-founder Paddy Burns launched Chroma Ventures\, the investment arm of 4J Studios\, in 2021.Chris is chairman of; Broker Insights\, Puny Astronaut\, Stormcloud Games and Ace Aquatec and sits on the boards of; Parsley Box\, Blippar\, Ant Workshop and ADV Holdings. He is also a non-executive director of the Ballie Gifford US Growth Trust.Alongside his commercial roles\, he was the founding chairman of Entrepreneurial Scotland and is currently a member of multiple advisory and local charity boards. Elected as one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013\, Chris was also formally recognised for his contribution to technology in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020\, becoming a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Caroline Parkinson\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Eoin Carey\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline Parkinson is Director of Creative for the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and works with the Scottish creative and cultural industries to innovate with academia. She developed the EFI plan for developing data-driven innovation within the creative industries and has worked closely with flagship project – Creative Informatics Cluster from 2018-2024. She was Director of Film\, TV\, Music\, Creative Industries\, Skills & Innovation for Creative Scotland from 2010-2014\, and from 2005-2010 she was Director\, Scotland & Northern Ireland for the new sector skills association\, Creative & Cultural Skills.She serves on the Board of Architecture & Design Scotland\, and for 7 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/video-games-play-and-pedagogy/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241104T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241104T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:Beyond Precarity: Imaginaries\, Constraints\, and the Meaning of Platform Work
DESCRIPTION:This talk will analyse the daily routines and economic pressures faced by today’s digital workers. By critically examining how their trajectories adapt to powerful infrastructures and economic forces within the technological landscape\, the presentation uncovers the complexities of “platform subjectivities”\, ways of perceiving the world shaped and configured by these platforms. I aim to compare different types of platform work\, breaking down traditional silos. By intertwining narratives from gig workers\, influencers\, e-commerce sellers\, and musicians in Chile\, the exploration seeks to unveil shared experiences and nuanced distinctions.  \n\n\n\nVenue\n\n\n\nRoom 1.55Edinburgh Futures Institute1 Lauriston PlaceEdinburghEH3  9EF
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/beyond-precarity-imaginaries-constraints-and-the-meaning-of-platform-work/
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241105T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
CREATED:20240829T095144Z
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SUMMARY:Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
DESCRIPTION:The Rhubaba Choir provides the opportunity for individuals to sing together in a welcoming\, eclectic group and share singing experiences. We welcome anyone who wants to lend their voice\, regardless of prior musical experience. We learn mostly by ear\, rather than from sheet music. \n\n\n\nThe Choir have been working with artist and writer Marie Hamrock and vocal facilitator Noah Tomson to sing the life cycle of a scottish salmon\, drawing on material from Marie’s writing as well as folk songs\, sea shanties\, and underwater recordings of salmon themselves. This workshop expands the fishy\, watery chorus to look more closely at some of that material and to explore the journey of the salmon physically and vocally. No singing or movement experience is necessary. \n\n\n\nPlease wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle. There will be a break in the workshop where a hot drink and some snacks will be provided. The workshop\, and the Choir as a whole\, are shaped around the abilities and capabilities of participants. If you have any questions or access requirements please send us a message at rhubabachoir@gmail.com.  \n\n\n\nThe 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be collectively sung by the workshop participants\, joining the Rhubaba Choir members\, at the event Entanglements: Studies in flowing\, following\, falling on Thursday November 7 at 6pm. We would ask that you arrive at the Futures Institute at 4.15pm on Thursday November 7\, in advance of the 6pm event start time. This will give everyone time to be introduced to the event space\, the plans for the event and your participation in it.  \n\n\n\nThe event comprises six presenting groups\, each arriving at a different time for their introduction to the space. Once your slot is completed\, there will be a break before the event starts.  \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\n\n\nRhubaba Choir\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Choir was founded in 2013 by committee members of Rhubaba\, an Edinburgh artist-run organisation. It acts as a commissioning platform for new works\, intended to provide invited artists\, musicians and writers with the resource of collective voices as a material. Rhubaba invites artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir\, whether through traditional means or by using the voice in other\, more experimental ways. In its lifetime\, the Rhubaba Choir has sung in many places\, including underpasses\, on canal boats\, up Calton Hill\, and worked with many artists including Shona Macnaughton\, Sion Parkinson\, Kathryn Elkin\, Hannan Jones\, Serena Korda and Tessa Lynch.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entangled-singing-with-rhubaba-choir/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241106T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:Entangled Performing with Karen Christopher
DESCRIPTION:Karen Christopher is a collaborative performance maker and teacher\, interested in artistic negotiation in the making process and finding non-traditional structures for working and composing material for live performance. \n\n\n\nThrough a series of assignments or tasks\, workshop participants will be invited to explore and create in a space where creativity\, activity and invention are themselves imagined as productive states. Group collaboration strategies will be employed to inspire individual breakthroughs. Performance is a mode of thought. Each time we make a live performance work we go through a learning process. \n\n\n\nNo prior performance experience is required\, and a mix of abilities and interests is welcome. Curiosity around ideas of creativity and how to work with others is desired. \n\n\n\nThe 3-hour workshop will generate material which will be performed by the workshop participants at the event Entanglements: Studies in falling\, flowing\, following on Thursday November 7 at 6pm. Attendance at both times is required – We would ask that you arrive at EFI at 3.30pm on Thursday November 7\, in advance of the 6pm event start time. Karen’s new ensemble project will also be presented at the event alongside the work of the Waterways Collective\, Hannah Lavery (Edinburgh Makar) and Rhubaba Choir. \n\n\n\nBiography\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher is a collaborative performance maker\, performer and teacher. Her company\, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects\, is devoted to collaborative processes\, listening for the unnoticed\, the almost invisible\, and the very quiet\, paying attention as an act of social cooperation. Recent works engage with interconnectivity: the entanglement between people and of people with their environments\, other living beings\, and the vibrant matter with which we interact. She was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until they disbanded in 2009. Karen is based in Faversham\, Kent. http://www.karenchristopher.co.uk/
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entangled-performing-with-karen-christopher/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241107T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241110T103000
DTSTAMP:20260404T094750
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-6/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Poetry for Change and Action
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism. In the first hour we will explore how poems have been used to speak truth to power and lift up seldom heard voices. In the second hour we will help you think about how you might use poetry with the people you work with to support them to share their experiences and inspire change through writing poetry. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be similar but each will explore a different theme or issue of social significance. You may take the workshops as a sequence or only attend one. \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops will be run online and the third will be run in-person at Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nThe Eventbrite linked on this page is for the online sessions. Follow this link to register for the in-person session on 14 November.  \n\n\n\nFacilitators:\n\n\n\nProfessor Sam Illingworth works at Edinburgh Napier University and is a world-leading expert in the intersections of poetry\, research\, and pedagogy. He is also the founder of Consilience\, the world’s first science and poetry journal. Find out more about Sam and his work at www.samillingworth.com. \n\n\n\nDr Autumn Roesch-Marsh works at the University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She is Co-Director of The Binks Hub\, which seeks to co-create research with communities using arts engaged methods to promote human flourishing. She recently worked with the Scottish Poetry Library on a Poetry for Wellbeing project for Social Workers. You can access the resources developed for this project here: Running Your Own Poetry for Wellbeing Workshops – Projects – Scottish Poetry Library
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/poetry-for-change-and-action-4/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Entanglements: Studies in falling\, flowing\, following
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Marie-Chantal Hamrock \n\n\n\nHow can we move from making studies of the world to learning with the world? Entanglements takes a creative approach to learning and teaching\, exploring the educational potential of collaborative art making. The event will entangle human and aquatic worlds\, moving between freshwater and the deep ocean\, learning through performance\, video\, music\, poetry and song. Falling\, flowing and following offer different models for an entangled education. \n\n\n\nTo draw\, to write with words\, to sculpt\, to design\, to compose music or dance\, to collaborate with others in the making of performance and all other forms that art can take\, all require that we study our subject\, with our bodies\, with our eyes\, with our minds\, with our hearts. The learning process makes the artwork; the art of making is an act of learning. \n\n\n\nTo teach these ways of making is also to learn. This holds true not only in the preparation for teaching but in the event of teaching itself which brings new insight through the interaction with other minds asking questions or making observations from other points of view. \n\n\n\nThis event will gently entangle a number of collaborative projects\, and include a post-show discussion. \n\n\n\nKaren Christopher\, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong will share material from their new collaborative performance Skywater\, Facewater\, Underwater Waltz\, which explores the movement of time in the deep sea via conversation\, connectedness\, durational work\, and song-like structures. \n\n\n\nDavid Overend (artistic researcher and EFI’s lecturer in interdisciplinary studies) and Matthew Whiteside (composer) will share their collaboration with the Waterways Collective of artists and scientists\, in an exploration of a journey from river to sea\, inspired by their time following Atlantic salmon. \n\n\n\nRhubaba Choir will present work developed for an entangled collaboration with Marie-Chantal Hamrock and Noah Tomson. Rhubaba invite artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir. \n\n\n\nAward-winning poet\, playwright and performer Hannah Lavery will respond creatively to the event’s theme and contents. Hannah was appointed Edinburgh Makar (city poet) in 2021. \n\n\n\nRelated workshops will be offered by Karen Christopher and Rhubaba Choir. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Christopher is a collaborative performance maker\, performer and teacher. Her company\, Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects\, is devoted to collaborative processes\, listening for the unnoticed\, the almost invisible\, and the very quiet\, paying attention as an act of social cooperation. Recent works engage with interconnectivity: the entanglement between people and of people with their environments\, other living beings\, and the vibrant matter with which we interact. She was a member of Chicago-based Goat Island performance group for 20 years until they disbanded in 2009. Karen is based in Faversham\, Kent. http://www.karenchristopher.co.uk/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fatehi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fatehi is a performance maker\, performer and writer. She creates poetic-political pieces playing with ambiguity\, mistranslation\, disjunction and unfinishedness. Tara has performed at the V&A Museum\, Royal Academy of Arts\, Nottdance\, Chapter\, Julidans\, Montpellier Danse\, Dansens Hus\, Alkantara and Rosendal Teater among others. Her ongoing projects include Mishandled Archive (dispersing a family archive in public space through dance and photography) and From the Lips to the Moon (an unusual music and poetry night). Tara is currently performing in pieces by Hooman Sharifi (Norway) and Teatr O Bando (Portugal). In 2021\, Tara was the first ever resident artist at the United Nations Archives at Geneva. Tara is based in London. www.tarafatehi.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJemima Yong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJemima Yong is a performance maker and photographer. She is Sarawakian\, born in Singapore\, and has developed her artistic practice in London\, UK\, where she is based. Collaboration and experimentation are central to her work. Recent performances include Something in Your Voice with Emergency Chorus and Marathon with JAMS\, which received the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2018 and was presented by the Barbican Centre. Jemima’s photography has been featured by the BBC\, Time Out\, The Guardian\, Swazi Observer and The Straits Times. She is an associate artist at Forest Fringe and is one fifth of DARC (Documentation Action Research Collective). Jemima is an alumni of United World Colleges\, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and The Curious School of Puppetry. https://jemimayong.format.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Whiteside\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Whiteside\, composer and Artistic Director of The Night With…. His music is lauded as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald. He won the SMIA Award for Creative Programming at the Scottish Awards for New Music in 2020 and was named One to Watch by the Scotsman. Recent works include commissions from the United Strings of Europe\, Scottish Opera Connect\, Glasgow Barons and Crash Ensemble.Alongside his artistic work\, Matthew is passionate about supporting the DIY community through education work such as publishing “The Guidebook to Self-Releasing Your Music”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Lavery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022\, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the current Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh\, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast and an Associate Artist at National Theatre Scotland (NTS) her plays for NTS The Drift and Lament for Sheku Bayoh and The Protest have toured extensively. She has written for a wide range of Theatre companies\, broadcasters and publications including BBC Radio 4 and the Guardian. Hannah lives\, breathes and dreams on the beaches and cliffs of Scotland’s East Coast\, with her dreaming often taking her back to the streets and closes of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRhubaba Choir\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRhubaba Choir was founded in 2013 by committee members of Rhubaba\, an Edinburgh artist-run organisation. It acts as a commissioning platform for new works\, intended to provide invited artists\, musicians and writers with the resource of collective voices as a material. Rhubaba invites artists to make works for and with the voices of the choir\, whether through traditional means or by using the voice in other\, more experimental ways. In its lifetime\, the Rhubaba Choir has sung in many places\, including underpasses\, on canal boats\, up Calton Hill\, and worked with many artists including Shona Macnaughton\, Sion Parkinson\, Kathryn Elkin\, Hannan Jones\, Serena Korda and Tessa Lynch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Overend\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Overend is a researcher in interdisciplinary education\, art and performance. He is currently working with Edinburgh Futures Institute as Programme Director of the MA(hons) Interdisciplinary Futures. As a theatre director\, David has worked for the National Theatre of Great Britain and has toured internationally with award-winning shows. Productions include Rob Drummond’s Bullet Catch and The Majority. In 2023-24\, he made a series of Entanglements with Karen Christopher. Books include Performance in the Field: Interdisciplinary practice-as-research (Palgrave Macmillan 2023)\, Making Routes: Journeys in performance 2010-2020\, co-authored with Laura Bissell (Triarchy Press 2021)\, and an edited collection\, Rob Drummond: Plays with participation (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama\, 2021). davidoverend.net
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/entanglements-studies-in-falling-flowing-following/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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SUMMARY:Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
DESCRIPTION:Image: Siddhi Gupta \n\n\n\nWe know that technology is not neutral. The development\, production and use of hardware and software has created and reinscribed exclusionary and harmful power dynamics: from the omission of women from the history of computer science\, to the dominance of ‘tech bros’ in the platform economy\, to the gendering and global outsourcing of low paid digital and data work\, to the shipping of e-waste to informal economies in the global south. As we begin to understand the harms caused by algorithmic biases and AI\, the ways in which inequalities are fundamentally encoded into technology is also becoming increasingly clear. This roundtable discussion will consider the role that education has played in developing our technological landscape and the roles it can and should play in working towards a fairer and more equitable future as well as reflect on how we are “educated” into dominant modes of thinking and knowing through technologically mediated worlds. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted in partnership with the Centre for Data Culture and Society and GENDER.ED. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nUsha Raman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUsha Raman is Professor and Head\, Department of Communication\, University of Hyderabad. Her academic interests span podcast studies\, journalism pedagogy\, cultural studies of science and health\, children’s media\, feminist media studies\, and digital cultures. In addition to edited books\, journal articles and book chapters\, she writes regularly for the popular media on issues related to health\, gender and education. and edits a monthly magazine for school teachers\, Teacher Plus. She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney (Australia)\, MIT (USA) and University of Bremen (Germany). She is co-founder of the IDRC funded initiative FemLabCo\, which explores the future of women’s work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMar Hicks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMar Hicks is an author\, historian\, and professor doing research on hidden histories of computing\, as well as the history of labor and technology. Hicks is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Virginia’s School of Data Science\, in Charlottesville\, teaching courses on the history of technology\, computing and society\, and the larger implications of powerful and widespread digital infrastructures. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light\, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks’s multiple award-winning book\, Programmed Inequality\, looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers\, and what this cautionary tale tells us about current issues in high tech. Their new work looks at resistance and queerness in the history of technology. Hicks is also co-editor of the book Your Computer Is On Fire (MIT Press\, 2021)\, a volume of essays about how we can begin to fix our broken high tech infrastructures. Other writing and more information can be found at: marhicks.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAisha Sobey\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Aisha Sobey (she/her) is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridges’ Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence\, where she works on the construction of systemic power within technology. She is concerned with the treatment of the non-normative body in AI systems\, and how the quantification of bodies through technical knowledges can marginalise those seen as deviant. Her site of focus is the fat body and how this frame intersects with other systems of oppression. She is passionate about championing inclusivity and access in her work\, and she Chairs her centre’s Research Ethics Committee and Wellbeing\, Inclusion\, Diversity and Equality Group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharon Webb (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharon Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex and serves as a Director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. As a historian\, she specialises in Irish associational culture and nationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is an active digital humanities practitioner. With a disciplinary background in both history and computer science\, Sharon has cultivated a research career within the expansive field of critical digital humanities and archives. Her research delves into critical digital humanities and archives\, with a focus on community archives from both theoretical and practical perspectives\, and employs feminist\, queer\, and decolonial methods to develop their work. In addition\, their research in the broad area of feminism and technology\, has led to innovative and critical interventions in funded projects\, such as Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities\, and Women in Focus.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/contesting-computing-imagining-feminist-technofutures/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-7/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Poetry for Change and Action
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for people who want to learn about how poetry might be used to support processes of change and activism. In the first hour we will explore how poems have been used to speak truth to power and lift up seldom heard voices. In the second hour we will help you think about how you might use poetry with the people you work with to support them to share their experiences and inspire change through writing poetry. \n\n\n\nThe workshops will be similar but each will explore a different theme or issue of social significance. You may take the workshops as a sequence or only attend one. \n\n\n\nThe first two workshops will be run online and the third will be run in-person at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. \n\n\n\nThe Eventbrite linked on this page is for the in-person session – follow this link to register for the online sessions on 31 October and 7 November.  \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nProfessor Sam Illingworth works at Edinburgh Napier University and is a world-leading expert in the intersections of poetry\, research\, and pedagogy. He is also the founder of Consilience\, the world’s first science and poetry journal. Find out more about Sam and his work at www.samillingworth.com. \n\n\n\nDr Autumn Roesch-Marsh works at the University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She is Co-Director of The Binks Hub\, which seeks to co-create research with communities using arts engaged methods to promote human flourishing. She recently worked with the Scottish Poetry Library on a Poetry for Wellbeing project for Social Workers. You can access the resources developed for this project here: Running Your Own Poetry for Wellbeing Workshops – Projects – Scottish Poetry Library
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/poetry-for-change-and-action-2/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government and Opposition
DESCRIPTION:Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture 2024 \n\n\n\nThe Government and Opposition Leonard Schapiro Memorial Lecture is given annually in honour of Leonard Schapiro\, one of the journal’s founding editors. \n\n\n\nLaura Cram\, Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab at the University of Edinburgh will be giving this year’s Schapiro Lecture for Government and Opposition on ‘A Neuropolitical Understanding of Government & Opposition’. Her analysis is of significant contemporary significance\, highlighting the challenges to good governance that obtain in often highly polarised decision environments. \n\n\n\nProfessor Cram’s lecture will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and a further chance for conversation during the wine reception for attendees. \n\n\n\nThe event will be live-streamed on Thursday 14 November\, from 18:00-19:15 \n\n\n\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis lecture examines the concepts of Government and Opposition from a neuropolitical perspective. The lecture will introduce neuropolitics and explore how insights from this psychophysiology and the cognitive neurosciences can help to illuminate the underlying mechanisms through which decisions and compromises are made\, or fail\, to be made in often polarized governing environments. Drawing together her decades of research on the European policy process and her lab’s current work on the neuropolitics of identity and decision-making\, Professor Cram will offer new insights into the implications of adversarial positioning of government and opposition\, for governance outcomes. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biography\n\n\n\nLaura Cram is Professor of Neuropolitics and Director of the Neuropolitics Research Lab(NRLabs) at the University of Edinburgh. Her lab uses experimental approaches\, including fMRI brain scanning\, face-emotion coding\, eye-tracking and biometric measures along with social computational approaches to get ‘under the hood’ of political attitudes\, identities and behaviours. She has also published widely on the European Union (EU) policy process and on EU identity. She held a Senior Fellowship on the Economic and Social Research Council’s UK in a Changing Europe programme\, explore the insights that cognitive neuroscience could offer into contemporary debates on the UK’s EU membership of the EU. She was a contributing author to the EU Commission’s 2019 study Understanding our Political Nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making. She acted as Special Advisor to the Scottish Parliament’s\, European and External Relations Committee\, on the Inquiry into the Impact of the Treaty of Lisbon on Scotland. She has provided evidence to the Houses of Lords and Houses of Commons in the UK and works closely with industrial partners and government officials in her research. She has been cited in the New York Times\, Christian Science Monitor\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Economist\, Financial Times\, Irish Times\, Telegraph\, the Conversation\, BBC\, Sky News\, Al Jazeera\, CNN\, International Associated Press. Her lab’s work has featured in BBC documentaries on the process of political decision-making. She was co-editor of Government and Opposition 2018-2024.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-neuropolitical-understanding-of-government-opposition-professor-laura-cram/
LOCATION:Informatics Forum\, The University of Edinburgh\, 10 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AB
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table
DESCRIPTION:This workshop takes place over 14th & 15th November. Please note – we require that attendees are present for the entirety of both days of this event. \n\n\n\nOur 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’.[i] \n\n\n\nIn this session\, Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will present their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table. On our own and in groups\, we will respond to these visions by designing and creating chairs that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. The chairs we produce will then be the starting point for a curatorial exploration in which we consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will consider what Utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. \n\n\n\nDay 1: Sharing and Making \n\n\n\nDay 2: Curating and Contemplating \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\nPlease note – we require that attendees are present for the entirety of both days of this event. \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\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Digital Maker Space and MS Teaching Studio\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table exhibition
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’.[i] \n\n\n\nFollowing on from a 1.5 day Utopia Lab design session in which Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will have shared their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table\, visitors to this exhibition will be invited to explore the responses that Utopia Lab participants have created in the form of chair designs and models that offer comfort and community to people of all descriptions and abilities. Guests will be invited to consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit. We will also consider what utopia means and how it could be a useful crucible in which to explore positive change. This is a drop in event\, please feel free to come when suits and to stay as long as you wish. \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be provided. \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\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJimmy Turner is a Research Fellow for the Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh with a background in anthropology and gender studies. Their woodworking practice started as a hobby in 2018\, and has since developed into an artistic and curational practice which frequently merges into the ethnographic and social research contexts in which they work. This has recently seen Jimmy work with colleagues from the EFI and local community to make the ‘Spirit Case’ sculpture which lives on the third floor of Edinburgh Futures Institute\, collaborate with the Ripple Project in NE Edinburgh on a community-led arts/research project\, and collaborate artistically with colleagues from Edinburgh\, Newcastle and Kings College London on the AHRC ‘Fail again\, fail better’ project\, which explores utopia and failure. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Vale is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is currently halfway through her doctoral project\, which uses a blended scholarly and practice-based approach to consider the representation of breast cancer surgery in art and curation. Currently she is co-curating the Empowered Journeys project with people who have had breast cancer surgery to produce artworks and pieces of text based on their lived experience. These artworks will go into an exhibition that will consider representation and investigate how curation and creativity can challenge the narratives that society projects onto post-surgery bodies. Previously she undertook a Masters by Research in Collections and Curating Practices\, in which she co-curated the Art in Mind exhibition\, an exploration of art and mindfulness\, and completed her dissertation on the rarely-acknowledged collaborative processes of queer surrealist photographers Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Utopia Lab Team\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Williams is the Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She manages a portfolio of creative projects that connect the work of the Institute to communities within the University of Edinburgh and beyond its walls. Utopia Lab\, for instance\, is a project in which people from many different places gather to dream futures that inspire our experience of the present and allow us to see the world in new ways that enable change. \n\n\n\nJennifer is a poet and librettist and her background is in writing\, art\, collaboration\, creative learning and project management. Williams is particularly interested in expanding dialogues across languages\, perspectives and cultures and in poetry\, cross-form work\, music\, visual art\, dance\, opera and theatre. She is concerned with the body\, and how slowing down can help busy people to experience their connection to themselves\, one another and the world more fully. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA degree from Wellesley College in English Literature with a Studio Art minor\, and an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Recent posts have included Projects & Engagement Coordinator at the Institute for Academic Development\, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library and Literature Officer at the Traverse Theatre. \n\n\n\nSee Jennifer’s website for more information about her own creative explorations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatjaz Vidmar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Matjaz Vidmar is one of the first utopians\, joining the pilot project in 2019. He is excited about philosophical\, processual and political implications of utopian thinking\, but actually enjoys the off-grid\, poetry-infused meditative vibe of our labs the most. Matjaz is also an academic in Engineering Management\, where he is researching innovation processes\, R&D (eco)systems and futures strategies and design\, especially within the space industry\, artificial intelligence and data-driven economy. He leads interdisciplinary projects spanning arts\, science and civil society\, he is involved in several start-up companies; and he delivers an extensive public engagement programme. More at www.blogs.ed.ac.uk/vidmar
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-seats-at-the-table-exhibition/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institue\, Level 4 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024
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SUMMARY:Here Be Dragons: The Challenges of Pursuing Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:Reid Concert Hall\, Bristo Square\, Edinburgh EH8 9AL \n\n\n\nOver the last decade\, a range of practices have emerged as scholars\, practitioners\, and regulators attempt to ensure that AI investments don’t go off the rails. Practices like red-teaming marry earlier approaches to content moderation and security\, but others are being developed specifically for the Generative AI space. Many of these fit under the broader rubric of “responsible AI.” How sociotechnical systems are designed\, developed\, and deployed is not inevitable. It behooves us all to grapple with known pitfalls\, minimize risks\, and nudge the systems towards constructive ends. In this talk\, danah will explore the range of traps that those seeking to minimize harm have\, are\, and will face as they attempt to ground fast-moving developments and offer frameworks for thinking about the present moment. \n\n\n\nIn this talk\, danah boyd will discuss the ways risks and harms are being addressed in AI development. She’ll explore the range of traps that those seeking to minimize harm have\, are\, and will face as they attempt to ground fast-moving AI developments and offer frameworks for thinking about the present moment. \n\n\n\nBio\n\n\n\ndanah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society\, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US census to understand how data are made legitimate. Her previous studies have focused on media manipulation\, algorithmic bias\, privacy practices\, social media\, and teen culture. Her monograph “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” has received widespread praise. She founded the research institute Data & Society\, where she currently serves as an advisor. She is also a trustee of the Computer History Museum\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and on the advisory board of Electronic Privacy Information Center. She received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University\, a master’s degree from the MIT Media Lab\, and a Ph.D in Information from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Critical Data Studies Cluster\, with the Bridging AI Divides (BRAID) programme
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/here-be-dragons-the-challenges-of-pursuing-responsible-ai/
LOCATION:Reid Concert Hall\, Bristo Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9AL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence models ‘learn’ and reproduce biases as a result of their training data\, which is largely drawn from websites based in the US and other Western countries\, and is heavily skewed towards English language sources. At the same time\, the work of training AI models and making them ‘safer’ for human consumption is outsourced to precarious and under-supported workers in developing countries. Tech companies in Silicon Valley and Western governments such as the EU currently dominate the global conversation on AI. Yet there is much that the Majority World has to teach us about AI\, and this perspective is too often marginalised in the discussion of what a future with AI ought to look like. In this Technomoral Conversations panel\, we will hear from leading voices from the Majority World on what they have learned from and about AI\, and the issues and visions they would like to see taken up more broadly as society grapples with the social and ethical implications of these emerging technologies. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcizio Silva\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTarcizio Silva is a researcher based in São Paulo and focused on promoting decolonial and afrodiasporic lenses to understand and influence internet\, A.I. and emergent technologies governance. They are a Tech Policy Senior Fellow at Mozilla Foundation and PhD candidate at UFABC. http://tarciziosilva.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKingsley Owadara\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKingsley Owadara (He/Him) is the founder and an AI Ethicist at the Pan-Africa Center for AI Ethics\, a dedicated not-for-profit organization committed to fostering the development and deployment of AI in a manner that prioritizes human-centric values. At the heart of his role\, he spearheads the initiative to craft and refine ethical frameworks\, ensuring that artificial intelligence technologies are developed and deployed with a strong emphasis on human values\, ethics\, and inclusivity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fischbach\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Fischbach is the Public Policy Manager for Community Engagement and Advocacy for the Middle East at Meta. She has worked in public policy\, development and media with a strong background in research. She has experience working with government agencies\, international NGOs\, and community level organizations in research\, communications\, and development projects. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-chair: Morshed Mannan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Morshed Mannan is a Lecturer in Global Law and Digital Technologies at Edinburgh Law School. He was previously a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute\, where he was part of the ‘BlockchainGov’ ERC project. His research focuses on blockchain governance and cooperative governance. In addition to his several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these topics\, his latest co-authored book Blockchain Governance was published by the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series (August 2024). He completed his PhD at Leiden Law School\, Leiden University. Morshed is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School in New York City. He is enrolled as an Advocate by the Bangladesh Bar Council\, and has been called to the Bar of England & Wales. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-chair: Shannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh\, UK – 20th March 2023. (Photograph: MAVERICK PHOTO AGENCY)\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is also appointed in Philosophy. She directs the Centre for Technomoral Futures in EFI\, and is co-Director of the UKRI’s BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) programme. Professor Vallor’s research explores how AI\, robotics\, and data science reshape human moral character\, habits\, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI\, and she is a former Visiting Researcher and AI Ethicist at Google. She is the author of Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press\, 2016) and The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press\, 2024).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/technomoral-conversation-what-the-majority-world-can-teach-us-about-ai/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-8/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork\, Future Library\, we gather to discuss what it means to be “futures literate”. We explore relationships between place\, knowledge\, imagination and time in making meaning from and engaging with different futures. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Paterson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatie Paterson (born 1981\, Scotland) is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world\, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate\, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. Combining a Romantic sensibility with a research-based approach\, conceptual rigour and coolly minimalist presentation\, her work collapses the distance between the viewer and the most distant edges of time and the cosmos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Sandford\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Sandford is Professor of Heritage Evidence\, Foresight and Policy at UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Heritage\, where his research explores the relationship between heritage and the future\, drawing on notions of care\, maintenance and repair to develop alternative orientations towards the future\, and developing an account of the particular capacities of heritage practices to shape the future. Before joining UCL\, Richard led horizon-scanning teams in the UK Civil Service\, developing the capacity of strategy and policy groups across government to work with long-term change and uncertainty. His previous research in education futures addressed young peoples’ ideas of the future\, futures literacy\, and the place of new media technologies in learning. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind. Fotografert forskjellig steder i Bjørvika\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne Beate Hovind is an urban developer who commissions and produces art in public spaces for more than 20 years. She holds several board positions and is senior lecturer II at the Faculty of Technology\, Art and Design at OsloMet. Hovind has extensive management experience primarily in the private sector\, but also in the public sector. She has held project management roles with responsibility for development work and change processes in large organizations\, led innovation and development projects\, and sat in the project management of land-based construction projects. In 2018\, she received the Oslo Municipality’s Artist Award for her work with art in the city. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Hendrikse Liu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Hendrikse Liu (she/they) is a 2024 graduate of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s MSc Narrative Futures: Art\, Data\, Society. They are a co-organizer of a group of students and recent graduates working on projects that bring together Edinburgh Futures Institute and Future Library — hopeful\, collaborative\, narrative-driven commitments to the future and to each other. As a speculative fiction writer\, Anja also explores these infinite hopeful (not perfect) futures for AI\, climate\, and our collective experience as humans living in the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJen Ross is Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh. She researches and writes about speculative methods for researching education futures\, exploring a variety of topics including museum engagement\, AI in education\, surveillance and trust\, and online distance learning. She is co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and recently developed and launched the MSc in Education Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/future-library-and-futures-literacy-making-futures-from-where-we-are/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is the latest in a long series of high-profile technology ‘disruptors’ of education. What futures for education does it promise\, and are these desirable? Who is driving the discussion about its potential? And what might it mean for the act and profession of teaching? Current debate on AI in education is intense\, and often torn between competing visions of education’s social purpose. This panel brings together researchers\, writers and thinkers working in the area of AI to discuss what a future of education permeated by AI might look like\, what it should look like\, and how it might support education for public good. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner is a writer\, editor\, speaker\, researcher\, and author of eight books\, including Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins UP) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin). John has been blogging about higher education at Inside Higher Ed for over a decade\, and writes weekly about books and reading culture at the Chicago Tribune and his associated newsletter\, The Biblioracle Recommends. His ninth book\, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (Basic Books)\, will be published in the U.S. in February 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey is a researcher and educator whose work examines digital technologies\, socioeconomic development\, and social equity. As Deputy Director at Research ICT Africa\, she leads research evidence-building for policymaking on digital and data governance across Africa. Her research includes studies of the relationship between digital and social inclusion\, gender digital equality\, artificial intelligence for development\, misinformation and disinformation in Africa\, and inclusive research design and decision-making for community development. She is motivated by an interest in resolving disconnections between rhetoric\, action\, and realities around the potential of new technologies to foster human development in Africa and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research on digital technologies\, data and artificial intelligence in education for more than ten years\, with books including Big Data in Education: The Digital Future of Learning\, Policy and Practice\, and the edited collection Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms\, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJL Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Gintare Kulyte\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman\, 2011)\, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman\, 2014)\, House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press\, 2016)\, After Economy (Shearsman\, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman\, 2022). Published widely in journals\, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues in the UK\, Sweden\, Germany\, Denmark\, Turkey\, Cyprus\, Canada\, Hungary\, Romania\, Montenegro and the US. \n\n\n\nShe wrote the libretto for the opera Snow which debuted in London in 2017\, was awarded a bursary to develop a new opera with composer Samantha Fernando at the Royal Opera House and was a librettist for the award-winning 2020 covid-response Episodes project by The Opera Story. She was commissioned to write the 2023 English Touring Opera children’s opera\, The Wish Gatherer. Williams is hopeful about the simple and mysterious power of poetry that allows us to know ourselves\, each other and the world more deeply. www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Sian Bayne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSian Bayne is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and leads on Education Futures in her role as Assistant Principal. Her research is critical and interdisciplinary\, currently focused on higher education futures\, AI\, utopia and theories of ‘enhancement’. http://sianbayne.net
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-ai/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar
DESCRIPTION:Unco is a project to create a new Scots lexicon of LGBT+ words. Developed with LGBT+ Scots speakers\, Unco reaches into the Scots language kist o riches and making new words where they’re needed. These words are a proposal for how LGBT+ people can talk about themselves in Scots\, and are offered as a gift to the future. \n\n\n\nThis event marks the launch of the lexicon with a specially-commissioned spoken word and music performance from Harry Josephine Giles and Malin Lewis. Weaving old and new language together with old and new sounds\, these two artists explore queer identities\, histories and creative futures. \n\n\n\nThe performance will be followed by a discussion with the artists about their approach to creating art that connects Scottish tradition with ideas that look to the future\, and on the process of creating the lexicon. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nMalin Lewis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMalin Lewis is a trans bagpiper\, fiddler\, instrument maker and award winning composer. One of Scotland’s most exciting innovators\, Malin melds Scottish west coast tradition with a newly invented\, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling\, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions\, humans\, queerness and the universe. Through their work\, Malin explores the space between the gender binary; a space with its own colourful and unique culture. Malin’s unique sound is born from the deep connection that comes with making and composing for their own instrument. Recently they have been touring with Making Tracks international residency\, recording film music in Berlin\, learning the tradition of the extinct Finnish Bagpipes and composing for theatre and contemporary dance from Manchester to Bern. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Josephine Giles\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdinburgh\, United Kingdom\, 2021. Credit: Rich Dyson\n\n\n\n\n\nHarry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney\, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press\, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection\, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019\, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Ashley Douglas\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Andrew Perry \n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Douglas is a multi-lingual historian\, writer\, translator and consultant\, specialising in the Scots language and LGBT+ history. She has worked with and written for a range of national heritage and literary organisations\, including the National Library of Scotland\, Historic Scotland\, Time for Inclusive Education\, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the British Library. She recently consulted on Katherine: James V\, the latest installment in Rona Munro’s “The James Plays” series. \n\n\n\nAshley has written an original LGBT+ inclusive children’s book in Scots (“The Lass and the Quine”\, forthcoming 2025). She is currently working on her first full-length book (forthcoming 2026): a historical biography of 16th-century figure Marie Maitland\, “Scotland’s 16th-century Sappho”\, who lived an all-round remarkable life as a woman in that era and who is especially significant as the author of among the earliest known lesbian love poetry (written in Scots) since Sappho herself.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/unco-lgbt-scots-glossar/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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