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SUMMARY:Defiant Lives: The History of the Disability Rights Movement 
DESCRIPTION:Watch the full film at – https://app.disabilitybusters.com/catalogue  \n\n\n\nDefiant Lives tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States\, Britain and Australia\, introduces the world to the most impressive activists you’ve never heard of.  \n\n\n\nIn this prerecorded conversation\, filmmakers Sarah Barton and Liz Burke join educator and advocate Sinéad Burke to talk the movement over the last five decades\, the making of the film\, and the extraordinary people who put their lives on the line to create a better and very different world where everyone is valued and can participate\, regardless of impairment.   \n\n\n\nPlease note this is a prerecorded event. Captions are available. \n\n\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Barton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Barton is a 2010 Churchill Fellow with more than 25 years’ filmmaking experience mainly with the disability community. Her first film Untold Desires (1994) about sexuality and disability won the first Logie Award for SBS television and an AFI Award.  In 2003 Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017 Sarah’s feature documentary Defiant Lives about the disability rights movement premiered at Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York.  Sarah runs a video on demand service dedicated to streaming great films about disability.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Burke\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Burke is an award – winning documentary filmmaker and producer.  She has had feature and television hour documentary films commissioned by ABC and SBS Television in Australia. This includes Defiant Lives (2017)\, about the history of the disability rights movement in the USA\, UK and Australia. She is a lecturer in  film producing at Swinburne University of Technology\, in the BA (Film\, Games & Animation). She is currently producing the feature documentary\, Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration\, about the late great disability activist Stella Young. She is the co-editor of Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory (2023).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad Burke (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad Burke is a Disabled educator\, advocate and author who champions accessibility\, equity and social justice to build a better world for everyone. In 2020\, she founded the accessibility consultancy Tilting the Lens on the three pillars of education\, advocacy and design. Advising major global brands including Gucci\, Ralph Lauren\, Netflix\, Pinterest and Starbucks\, Tilting the Lens guides clients in their move from awareness to action by creating more accessible practices\, policies\, products and services\, places and promotions.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/defiant-lives-the-history-of-the-disability-rights-movement/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:Seizing the Means of Computation with Cory Doctorow 
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be hosting Cory Doctorow in conversation with Morgan Meaker about his book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.   \n\n\n\nWhen the tech platforms promised a future of “connection\,” they were lying. They said their “walled gardens” would keep us safe\, but those were prison walls.  \n\n\n\nLocked into their systems by design\, we are held hostage by Twitter\, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms who threaten us with lost connection if we delete our accounts.   \n\n\n\nThe solution is simple: interoperability (a dirty word in Silicon Valley). Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies\, allowing users leave platforms\, remix their media\, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCory Doctorow is a science fiction author\, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books\, nonfiction and fiction\, and in 2020 he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate\, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University\, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGina Helfrich\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gina Helfrich is Baillie Gifford Programme Manager for the Centre for Technomoral Futures at Edinburgh Futures Institute\, University of Edinburgh. Previously\, she served as Senior Program Officer for Global Technology at Internews\, where she managed global technology programs to promote and protect Internet Freedom and digital rights. Dr. Helfrich has spent the bulk of her career working to make technology better serve the needs of historically marginalised and at-risk people. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University with a specialisation in ethics and women’s and gender studies.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/seizing-the-means-of-computation-with-cory-doctorow/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Power Trip: Autumn 2023
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SUMMARY:FutureGaze: The Future of Creative Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:FutureGaze is a lunchtime series brought to you by Creative Edinburgh\, providing time out to reflect and gaze into the future of the creative industries. \n\n\n\nIn conversation with Caroline Parkinson\, we welcome creative leaders who have innovated and led significant changes in their creative business\, organisation\, artistic or academic practice over the past year to share what the future looks like for them – and for the creative and cultural sector. \n\n\n\nJoin us as we collectively gaze into the future of the creative and cultural sector\, stimulate ideas for your creative future\, and get inspired to strive towards it. \n\n\n\nNot a member of Creative Edinburgh yet? It’s free to join click here. \n\n\n\nBy registering to our events you will automatically be given a free Creative Edinburgh Core membership. You can cancel this at any time. You will not be able to attend our events unless you are on a Creative Edinburgh membership package including Core. \n\n\n\nWhat does FutureGaze explore?\n\n\n\nFrom new ways of exploring creative investments to new ways of measuring creative impact\, FutureGaze will cover a range of themes in 2023 aimed at creative freelancers\, sole traders\, and businesses. \n\n\n\nJoined by a line-up from across the creative industries\, Caroline will delve into the challenges and opportunities\, the shifts in thinking and practice they have made over the past couple of years and explore what’s been learned through these changes. \n\n\n\nWe will reflect on the changing landscape facing the creative industries and look to the future to consider how the creative and cultural sector may need to adapt in order to sustain\, maximise potential through innovation and thrive. \n\n\n\nOctober’s Discussion: The Future of Creative Inclusion\n\n\n\nCreativity thrives on a diversity of voices\, perspectives\, and experiences\, and we in the creative and cultural sector work towards widening access\, inclusion and diversity in our industry and representation in the creative work produced. \n\n\n\nHow are we doing as a sector in achieving a positive difference\, and tackling the challenges to achieving greater diversity and inclusion? \n\n\n\nWhat are our strategies for equality\, diversity\, inclusion and access? How successful have been the initiatives we have designed? Is there a greater need to share our learning and our initiatives that have worked even in part\, so we can widen access\, reduce obstacles\, improve opportunity and achieve our aims? \n\n\n\nIn this FutureGaze our speakers will explore these questions\, and share what they have learned from their experiences and challenges\, with examples of strategies and initiatives that have achieved a positive difference. \n\n\n\nAbout our Guests\n\n\n\nNicola Osborne \n\n\n\nNicola Osborne is Manager of the Institute for Design Informatics\, at The University of Edinburgh and Programme Manager for the Creative Informatics Cluster programme\, sited within the Institute. She authored the Equalities\, Diversity and Inclusion policy for the programme\, and co-authored the ethics guidance\, and regularly works with SMEs to ensure their innovative work is inclusive and ethically grounded. \n\n\n\nShe has also contributed social media expertise to UK and EU research projects and through consultancy with clients including\, the British HIV Association\, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde\, and Asthma UK. \n\n\n\nMelanie Hoyes \n\n\n\nHaving completed postgraduate studies and teaching film and TV at undergraduate level\, the BFI has given Mel the opportunity to use these skills in a contemporary industry context. She completed a BFI research project to historically map ethnic diversity in onscreen representation in UK film for the Black Star season at the BFI Southbank in 2016\, ground-breaking research and data methodology which was written up in a piece and Sight & Sound Magazine and an academic collection of essays called Black Film\, British Cinema II. In her role as Head of Inclusion at the BFI\, Melanie advocates for increased access and equity in the UK film sector as well as consulting and collaborating with global partners to embed diversity and inclusion into policy and practice. \n\n\n\nShe also sits on various Boards and committees and is the Europe Council Lead for the Geena Davis Institute and co-editor of the Black Film Bulletin section in Sight and Sound magazine. \n\n\n\nAbout our host\n\n\n\nCaroline Parkinson \n\n\n\nCaroline is Sector Engagement Manager for the Creative Industries and Director of Creative for the Edinburgh Futures Institute having previously developed the sector plan and white paper for the creative industries for the Data-Driven Innovation Programme within the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this from 2014 to 2018 she provided consultancy in the creative industries specialising in business development\, innovation and skills\, latterly completing a 2-year contract to stimulate innovation in creative industries with Interface. From 2010 to 2014 she was Director of Film\, TV\, Music\, Creative Industries\, Skills & Innovation for the newly formed Creative Scotland\, and prior to that from 2005 to 2010 she was Director\, Scotland & Northern Ireland for the new sector skills association\, Creative & Cultural Skills. \n\n\n\nHer early creative life included ballet and rhythmic gymnastics\, fashion\, singing in bands for over 30 years\, and photography\, becoming a professional photographer in 1999. \n\n\n\nShe serves on the Board of Architecture & Design Scotland\, and until recently served on the board of the Scottish Music Industry Association\, and for four years has served in a voluntary capacity as Strategic Director and Presenter of the MOVE Summit\, Scotland’s Animation and VFX Gathering.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/futuregaze-the-future-of-creative-inclusion/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Music-making beyond the classroom
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Binks Hub as part of the UNESCO Week of Sound \n\n\n\nMusic can benefit young people in far reaching ways. Not only can it enable young people to learn new skills\, but it can support their well-being by creating opportunities for self-expression\, collaboration and belonging. \n\n\n\nResearch has found music to be especially positive for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. In spite of this\, there are widening inequalities in the provision of and access to music-making. \n\n\n\nSuch concerns have been heightened in the context of ongoing public sector cuts\, and the resultant music education budgets in schools. \n\n\n\nIn this online seminar\, we invite you to join community practitioners and researchers involved in music and music-making in settings outside of the classroom. \n\n\n\nPart celebration\, part call for action\, it will showcase the wealth and energy of music initiatives working with\, and for\, young people. \n\n\n\nBy making instruments and music education available to all young people\, deliberately bringing sound into unexpected places and social groups\, and challenging the rules around music-making\, these initiatives show how valuable\, and how valued music is both to young people and the communities they are part of. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nEmma Davidson (Co-Director\, Binks Hub) \n\n\n\nJed Milroy (Assistant Director at the Tinderbox Collective) \n\n\n\nRyan McGlone (Manager\, Grantown Youth Centre) \n\n\n\nKatie Hunter (Research Fellow\, Strathclyde University)
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/music-making-beyond-the-classroom/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The sounds of feeling well\, feeling cared for
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Binks Hub as part of the UNESCO Week of Sound \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, we will share the findings of a co-creative research project which explored understandings of mental health for care-experienced people in order to develop an innovative training for residential workers. \n\n\n\nThe seminar will share some of the findings of the project and also explore the importance of sound in the training resources we created. The seminar will include experts-by-experience alongside academics and a sound artist. \n\n\n\nA panel discussion with Dr Christina Mcmellon\, Dr Pearse McCusker\, Michael Begg\, Thomas Bartlett\, and Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-sounds-of-feeling-well-feeling-cared-for/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Citizens Data Agency Event Series – What mobilises people against Big-Tech?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Citizens Data Agency public event with Dr. Elinor Carmi\, who will share her latest research report titled “What mobilises people against Big-Tech?”. This report builds on previous research with colleagues at Liverpool University that argues that contrary to arguments about people’s resignation and cynicism about their privacy and digital rights\, they found that people do care but do not know what to do about it. This new report asks digital rights NGO practitioners to share their experience around campaigns with different communities – what worked\, what did not work and how can we move forward to challenge the power asymmetries we have with Big-Tech. \n\n\n\nRead the report: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31373/ \n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile:\n\n\n\nDr. Elinor Carmi is a Senior Lecturer in Data Politics and Social Justice at the Sociology & Criminology Department at City University\, London\, UK. Dr. Carmi is a digital rights advocate\, feminist\, researcher and journalist who has been working\, writing and teaching on data politics\, data literacies\, feminist approaches to media and data\, data justice and internet governance. Currently Dr. Carmi is a POST Parliamentary Academic Fellowship working with the UK’s Digital\, Culture\, Media & Sport (DCMS) Committee on the project she proposed: “Digital literacies for a healthy democracy”. She also works on the Nuffield Foundation project “Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard”. Dr. Carmi’s work contributes to emerging debates in academia\, policy\, health organisations and digital activism. She gave evidence on Digital Literacy for the House of Lords Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. In 2020\, Dr. Carmi was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert on data literacy and disinformation to the first scientific discussion on infodemiology. \n\n\n\nWebsite – https://elinorcarmi.com/ \n\n\n\nThe event will be held online\, please register to receive a link to join. There will be a 30 minute talk with a discussion and Q&A afterwards. \n\n\n\n*Please note the event will be recorded* \n\n\n\nAbout Citizens Data Agency\n\n\n\nThe Citizens Data Agency research project is running monthly public events exploring data\, citizen-led privacy\, the impact of emerging technologies on citizens’ data and alternative data governance. We hope the events will be an opportunity to explore these topics through inspiring projects and be an opportunity to learn more about how citizens can be empowered to protect their privacy and data. The events are free to attend and open to everyone. \n\n\n\nWebsite – www.citizensdataagency.co.uk
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/citizens-data-agency-event-series-what-mobilises-people-against-big-tech/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence in Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free online training event exploring the rapidly evolving role of artificial intelligence in the publishing industry. Looking at real-life case studies\, the session will delve into the latest research on the use and impact of AI on content creation and engagement. \n\n\n\nHear from Caroline Parkinson\, Director of Creative for the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, in conversation with Dr Bronwyn Jones – a scholar and practitioner who works as a journalist for the BBC and researches the role of artificial intelligence (AI)\, algorithms\, and automation in news production at the University of Edinburgh – and Burkhard Schafer\, Professor of Computational Legal Theory who researches the interactions between law\, science\, and computer technology from doctrinal\, comparative\, and legal-theoretical perspectives. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place on Zoom and include time for audience questions and discussion.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/artificial-intelligence-in-publishing/
LOCATION:Online\, Edinburgh
CATEGORIES:Creative Industries,Training
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