Kommende Veranstaltungen

Di. 18. April 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr
Gender & Diversity Lunch mit Meral Akkent
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18. April 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr

Weitere Informationen folgen

Zur Reihe:
Die Reihe „Gender & Diversity Lunch“ lädt alle Mitglieder der SFBs „Medien der Kooperation“ und „Transformationen des Populären“ zu einem Austausch zu aktuellen Themen und Fragestellungen aus den Bereichen Gleichstellung, Diversity und Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Wissenschaft ein. Ziel der Reihe ist es, ein Networking zwischen SFB-Mitgliedern und Personen aus verschiedenen Bereichen und mit unterschiedlichen biografischen Erfahrungen zu ermöglichen. Zu jeder Veranstaltung wird eine Person zu einem bestimmten Thema eingeladen. Die Reihe findet in regelmäßigen Abständen zur Mittagszeit inklusive eines Imbisses statt. Vorschläge und Anregungen für Wunschthemen/-referent*innen sind jederzeit herzlich willkommen.

 

Ein Kooperationsformat der SFBs 1187 & 1472 zur Chancengleichheit

 

Anmeldung über Nadine Daub (nadine.daub@student.uni-siegen.de)

Veranstaltungsort

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 19. April 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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19. April 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Do. 20. April 2023 - Do. 20. April 2023
Workshop “The indexicality of skills and the skill of deixis”
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20. April 2023 - 20. April 2023, 09:30 - 19:00 Uhr

 

09.30–10.00

Welcome and introduction

 

10.00–11.00

Jutta Wiesemann (Siegen)

„Lass Großmama nicht fallen.“ Co-operation and learning in digital childhood

 

11.00–11.30

Coffee break

 

11.30–12.30

Janette Friedrich (Geneva) (via Webex)

„Gibt es eine Schnittstelle zwischen Sprache und Fertigkeiten? oder Die Indexikalität darstellender Sprache.“

 

12.30–13.30

Lunch

 

13.30–14.30

Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen (Cologne)

The Verbal, Corporal, and Medial Deixis in the Therapeutic Field: Reflections on Alzheimer’s Dementia

 

14.30–15.30

Judith Willkomm (Konstanz)

Skilled perception: understanding deixis anew through blind football

 

15.30–16.00

Coffee break

 

16.00–17.00

Gabriele Diewald (Hannover)

The indexical structure of grammatical paradigms

 

17.00–18.00

William Hanks (Berkeley) (via Webex)

Metalanguage and the articulation of tacit idexicality

 

19.00

Dinner at Namaste

 

 

 

Veranstaltungsort

University of Siegen
Am Herrengarten 3, Siegen
Mi. 26. April 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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26. April 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mo. 08. Mai 2023 - Di. 09. Mai 2023
Tagung: „Sprachassistenten im Privathaushalt: Medien und Daten in Interaktion und Diskurs“
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08. Mai 2023 - 09. Mai 2023

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu einer Tagung, die im Rahmen des Teilprojekts B06 am 8. und 9. Mai 2023 ausgerichtet wird:
„Sprachassistenten im Privathaushalt: Medien und Daten in Interaktion und Diskurs“

Die Veranstaltung ist zweisprachig und findet am ersten Tag deutsch-, am zweiten Tag englischsprachig im Seminarzentrum am Obergraben (US-S, Obergraben 25) statt. Als Keynote-Speaker freuen wir uns, Simone Natale und Nils Zurawski begrüßen zu können.

Im Rahmen der Tagung findet außerdem am Abend des 8. Mai die Podiumsdiskussion „Zwischen Komfort und Ausbeutung: Privatheit in Haushalten im Zeitalter der Überwachung durch Smart Technologies“ statt.

Ein Programm und weitere Informationen finden Sie demnächst an dieser Stelle. Zwischenzeitlich wenden Sie sich bei Rückfragen gern an das Organisationsteam (Kontakt s.u.). 

Veranstaltungsort

Seminarzentrum am Obergraben
US-S, Obergraben 25

Kontakt

SFB 1187, Teilprojekt B06
David Waldecker / Tim Hector
ipa-studie@uni-siegen.de
Permalink
Mi. 10. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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10. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Sa. 13. Mai 2023 - Sa. 17. Juni 2023
Berührung neu erfinden - eine Ausstellung zu Sinnespraktiken in digitalen Kindheiten
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13. Mai 2023 - 17. Juni 2023

Ausstellung Berührung Neu Erfinden

13. Mai – 17. Juni 2023
Donnerstags bis Samstags 14:00 – 18:00 Uhr

Vernissage am Siegener Tag der offenen Uni, 13.5.2023 ab 16:00 Uhr
Sonderöffnungszeiten:
Tag der Familie am 15.5., Digitaltag am 16.6.

Was wird aus dem Berühren beim Zusammensein in digitalen Räumen? Geht das Berühren verloren, verändert es sich oder begibt es sich auf Wanderschaft zwischen den Sinnen? Dort, wo Menschen mit digitalen Geräten interagieren, zeigen sich Grenzverschiebungen dessen, was als Berührung bezeichnet werden kann. Diese Grenzen werden in unserer Ausstellung beobachtend erforschbar und erfahrbar, in einem kamera-ethnographischen Blicklabor, in dem Hände, Köpfe, Arme, Füße, Gesichter, Stimmen, Erde und Glas als Medien der Berührung in Displaywelten interagieren. Unsere Videoinstallationen laden dazu ein, über Berührung, Sinne und digitale Medien nachzudenken, und herkömmliche Ideen dazu zu hinterfragen. Die Protagonist*innen unserer audiovisuellen Werke sind
Kinder, die in einem digitalisierten Alltag aufwachsen. Das Digitale ist selbstverständlich in ihr Leben eingewoben, sie kennen kein analoges Davor mehr. Es ist also an der Zeit, danach zu fragen, ob Berührung in der frühen Kindheit und darüber hinaus derzeit neu erfunden wird.

Ein Projekt des kamera-ethnographischen Film- und Forschungsteams Bina E. Mohn, Pip Hare, und Astrid Vogelpohl zusammen mit Jutta Wiesemann, Projektleiterin des Forschungsprojektes „Frühe Kindheit und Smartphone“ beim Sonderforschungsbereich „Medien der Kooperation“ an der Universität Siegen. Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Projektnummer 262513311 – SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation.

Veranstaltungsort

Haus der Wissenschaft
Villa Sauer
Obergraben 23
57072 Siegen

Links

Flyer
Di. 16. Mai 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr
Gender & Diversity Lunch mit Johanna Pitetti-Heil
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16. Mai 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr

Weitere Informationen folgen

Zur Reihe:
Die Reihe „Gender & Diversity Lunch“ lädt alle Mitglieder der SFBs „Medien der Kooperation“ und „Transformationen des Populären“ zu einem Austausch zu aktuellen Themen und Fragestellungen aus den Bereichen Gleichstellung, Diversity und Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Wissenschaft ein. Ziel der Reihe ist es, ein Networking zwischen SFB-Mitgliedern und Personen aus verschiedenen Bereichen und mit unterschiedlichen biografischen Erfahrungen zu ermöglichen. Zu jeder Veranstaltung wird eine Person zu einem bestimmten Thema eingeladen. Die Reihe findet in regelmäßigen Abständen zur Mittagszeit inklusive eines Imbisses statt. Vorschläge und Anregungen für Wunschthemen/-referent*innen sind jederzeit herzlich willkommen.

 

Ein Kooperationsformat der SFBs 1187 & 1472 zur Chancengleichheit

 

Anmeldung über Selina Seibt (selina.seibt@student.uni-siegen.de)

Veranstaltungsort

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 17. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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17. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 24. Mai 2023 - Fr. 26. Mai 2023
Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems
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24. Mai 2023 - 26. Mai 2023

Technolinguistics in PracticeTechnolinguistics in Practice2

 

Program | Venue

 

New language technologies give rise to new technolinguistic practices, demanding a reconsideration of earlier questions and disciplinary commitments concerning the study of language and technology. The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to new communicative repertoires and ideologies for imagining, designing and interacting with machines as well as with humans. In the spirit of an ‘ethnography of “cooperation”’(cf. Hymes 1964) which situates communicative cooperation in the context of a wider community of practice, we are interested in:

(1) how the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) conceptualize and operationalize “language,” by reproducing, regressing to, building on, challenging, updating, or otherwise engaging with the intellectual history of the field and its numerous critics, as well as in

(2) how this operationalization transforms or is transformed by the socially-situated engagements between humans and machines in the sociocultural, political or economic contexts in which AI and ML models materialize.

We aim to assemble scholars from a variety of fields to document and analyze evolving language and semiotic practices – the constitutive work that constructs “language” itself as a technology of artificial intelligence both within and surrounding AI and ML technologies by researchers, developers or other users.

Program

14:00–14:30

Conference Opening

14:30–15:45

Keynote:

Who Do We Talk to When We Talk to Machines? Linguistic Anthropology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Paul Kockelman

15:45–16:00

Coffee Break

16:00–17:30

Session 1:

Becoming a Conversational Agent User: Interaction with an “Automated Operator” in Phone Information Service | Alisa Maksimova

What Was the Smart Speaker? | David Waldecker, Axel Volmar, Tim Hector and Christine Hrncal

17:30–17:45

Coffee Break

17:45–19:15

Session 2:

How Human Interaction can Inspire Convivial Language Technology | Andreas Liesenfeld and Mark Dingemanse

Frameworks as Infrastructures of Conversational AI | Marcus Burkhardt and Susanne Förster

19:30

Dinner

10:00–11:15

Keynote:

Text as Task: A Guide to the Transformer Architecture and its Language Ideologies | Michael Castelle

11:15–11:30

Coffee Break

11:30–13:00

Session 3:

From “Natural” to “Culturally Grounded” and “Socially Anchored“: Examining the Notion of Language in NLP | Christoph Purschke, Alistair Plum and Catherine Tebaldi

What Python Can’t Do: Language Ideologies in Programming Courses for Natural Language Processing | Joseph Wilson

13:00–14:15

Lunch @ Mensa Food Court

14:15–15:45

Session 4:

Pragmatics in the History of NLP | Evan Donahue

Understanding the Limitations of Large Language Models | Ole Pütz and Steffen Eger

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15–17:45

Session 5:

Selection Systems as Mediators of Documentary Communication | Ryan Shaw

Indexing Semantic Association | Tyler Shoemaker

 

18:30

Dinner

10:00-11:15

Keynote

ChatGPT: Genre, Scale, Animacy | Ilana Gershon

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:00

Session 6

Making Data Speak: Command, Control, and Transductive Contingency in American Vocal Biomarker Technologies | Beth Semel

Machine Learning as Semiotic Mediation | Yarden Skop and Siri Lamoureaux

13:00-14:15

Lunch @ Mensa Food Court

14:15-15:45

Session 7

ConMan: Stories from a Cooperative Anthro-computational Approach to the Study of Conspiracy Theories | Alistair Plum, Catherine Tebaldi and Christoph Purschke

Abstracting Away: ‘Speakers’ and Minoritised Communication Ideologies | Alicia Fuentes-Calle

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-17:00

Session 8

It Is a Match: Language, AI-Powered Matchmaking and the Politics of Employability | Alfonso Del Percio

17:00-18:00

Wrap-Up & Discussion on Follow-Up Publication and Project Planning

18:30

Optional Dinner

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
Building C, Room 109
Unteres Schloss 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 31. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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31. Mai 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Di. 13. Juni 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr
Gender & Diversity Lunch mit Prof. Dr. Swantje Köbsell
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13. Juni 2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr

Weitere Informationen folgen

Zur Reihe:
Die Reihe „Gender & Diversity Lunch“ lädt alle Mitglieder der SFBs „Medien der Kooperation“ und „Transformationen des Populären“ zu einem Austausch zu aktuellen Themen und Fragestellungen aus den Bereichen Gleichstellung, Diversity und Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Wissenschaft ein. Ziel der Reihe ist es, ein Networking zwischen SFB-Mitgliedern und Personen aus verschiedenen Bereichen und mit unterschiedlichen biografischen Erfahrungen zu ermöglichen. Zu jeder Veranstaltung wird eine Person zu einem bestimmten Thema eingeladen. Die Reihe findet in regelmäßigen Abständen zur Mittagszeit inklusive eines Imbisses statt. Vorschläge und Anregungen für Wunschthemen/-referent*innen sind jederzeit herzlich willkommen.

 

Ein Kooperationsformat der SFBs 1187 & 1472 zur Chancengleichheit

 

Anmeldung über Nadine Daub (nadine.daub@student.uni-siegen.de)

Veranstaltungsort

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 14. Juni 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum
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14. Juni 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

Vergangene Veranstaltungen

Do. 02. März 2023 - Fr. 03. März 2023
Hilfskraft im Forschungsverbund: Projekt- und Veranstaltungsmanagement
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02. März 2023 - 03. März 2023, 9:30 - 16:00 Uhr

Der Workshop richtet sich an alle Hilfskräfte (SHK, WHB und WHK) innerhalb des SFB und zielt darauf, grundlegende Kompetenzen im Veranstaltungsmanagement zu vermitteln und die Regeln serviceorientierter Kommunikation zu thematisieren. Besonders im Fokus stehen dabei die Herausforderungen interdisziplinären Arbeitens im Forschungsverbund eines SFB. Behandelt werden entsprechend folgende Themen:

  • Anforderungen wissenschaftlicher Veranstaltungsformate (Ringvorlesung, Gastvortrag, Workshop, Fachtagung)
  • Unterstützung bei der Konzeption, Planung & Umsetzung wissenschaftlicher Veranstaltungen
  • Aufgaben in der Tagungsorganisation (Vorbereitung, Koordination vor Ort, Kommunikation mit Tagungsteilnehmenden und Referent*innen)
  • Zeit- und Projektmanagement
  • Dos und Don’ts in der Kommunikation

Organisiert vom House of Young Talents exklusiv für Hilfskräfte (SHK, WHB und WHK) des SFB 1187

Der Workshop findet in Siegen und auf Deutsch statt.

Wir bitten um vorherige Anmeldung bis zum 23. Februar 2023 über unsere Webseite.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Di. 07. Februar 2023 - Mi. 08. Februar 2023
MGK Forschungskolloquium
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07. Februar 2023 - 08. Februar 2023, 09:00 - 19:00 Uhr

Forschungskolloquium der MGK Kollegiat*innen

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Do. 02. Februar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Lecture Series "Research at Risk" - Bridget Fonkeu: "Translanguaging, a strategic tool for teaching and learning in the German classrooms: The case of multilingual Cameroonian immigrants"
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02. Februar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

Translanguaging, a strategic tool for teaching and learning in the German classrooms: The case of multilingual Cameroonian immigrants.

Translanguaging is a pedagogical program where two or more languages are simultaneously used in the classroom. One language is used to teach and instruct the students, but the student’s output is sometimes allowed to be in their L1/Mother tongue. This practice gives the students” a time to shine”. Students can be encouraged to communicate and make meaning by drawing on and intermingling linguistic features from the different languages in their repertoire.Translanguaging helps students and teachers fully understand the communicative repertoires they bring to the learning arena. It also helps the teacher identify how to draw on those repertoires for successful educational practices for the students concerned. This thesis, therefore, recommends translanguaging in the educational process of immigrants. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”- Nelson Mandela.

 

About the lecture series

In view of the current political situation, especially the war in Ukraine and the protest movement in Iran, the lecture series “Research at Risk!” is an invitation to discuss the challenges of research in media, theater and cultural studies in crises and war regions beyond national and cultural boundaries. We have invited experts from various disciplinary and geo-political situations/positions to present their research on topics related to the wars and crises in our world and how this affects their research.

The lectures focus on research practices in war and crises as well as on scientific/activist work on war and crises. Specifically, our speakers address the questions of how research, education and study can be carried out under hostile conditions and what influence war, political oppression, diaspora and other crisis-related impacts have on the production of knowledge. Which forms of knowledge and cultures receive credit in the academic world, and which are excluded? Where do scientists and students place the significance of the media when faced with these circumstances?

The event is a continuation of an initiative from within German Media Studies to support scholars at risk affected by the ongoing Russian invasion on Ukraine. We want to use the attention currently being raised by the war in Ukraine to give stage to researchers from various zones of war and risk across Europe and worldwide, including Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Turkey, Kamerun, and Afghanistan.

The lecture series „Research at Risk“ is a cooperation project of German media scholars and supported by: the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, the CRC 1472 “Transformationen des Popuren and the Media Studies department at the University of Siegen, the Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische and the Faculty for Philology at Ruhr University Bochum, and the European Media Studies at the University Flensburg.

Guests are welcome to register via Mail ‘Send an E-mail

Veranstaltungsort

Online-Veranstaltung
Do. 02. Februar 2023 - Fr. 03. Februar 2023
Workshop „Die Akte / n.2“
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02. Februar 2023 - 03. Februar 2023

Gibt es ein Motto, das das Prinzip einer verwalteten Welt auf eine Formel bringt, dann den altrömischen Prozessgrundsatz: Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. Bereits in antiker Justiz und Verwaltung herrschte jenes Primat der Verschriftlichung, das aus einer Handlung oder Aussage eine Rechtssache und einen Geschäftsfall macht. Akten sind seither nicht nur die Grundlage von Bürokratien im Sinne Max Webers‚ sondern von Verwaltungs- und Rationalisierungsmaßnahmen in diversen (etwa pädagogischen oder medizinischen, militärischen oder wirtschaftlichen) Institutionen.

Akten (bzw. ›Akte‹) verstehen sich dabei nicht nur als schriftliche Zeugnisse geregelter Geschäftstätigkeit, sondern als entscheidende Formen und wichtigste Medien administrativen Handelns. Man mag sie als immutable mobiles und damit als Träger jeder essentiellen staatlichen Macht verstehen, oder aber als Mediencontainer, die unterschiedlichste Schreib- und Textformen in ein und denselben Geschäftszusammenhang bringen. Die Form- und Mediengeschichte der Akte reicht von der römischen Justiz und Administration über das mittelalterliche Urkundenwesen, die erstmals genormten Aktenschriftstücke der Frühen Neuzeit und die Registraturvorschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur modernen Büroreform und ›Digitalisierung‹ in der Gegenwart.

Programm für 02.02.23

14:00 s.t. – 15.30 Uhr

Begrü­ßung und Einfüh­rung:
Niels Werber (Siegen)

Peter Plener (Wien):
Dracula – Process – Star. Stan­zun­gen und Kanz­lei-Ordnun­gen, alte und neue Akten­läufe

15:30 – 16:00 Uhr

Café

16:00 s.t. – 18:00 Uhr

Armin Schä­fer (Bochum):
Akten­fik­ti­o­nen bei Clemens J. Setz

Livia Klein­wäch­ter (Köln):
„Leitz­ord­ner­li­te­ra­tur quo vadis? Erzäh­len von und in Akten bei Thomas Bern­hard und Ernst-Wilhelm Händ­ler“

Café

18:00 c.t. – 19:30 Uhr

Erhard Schütt­pelz (Siegen):
Theo­rie der Akte/n, Betr.: RSHA IV B4/RSHA IV B4a

20:00 Uhr

Abend­es­sen

 

Programm für 03.02.23

10:00 s.t. – 12:00 Uhr

Corne­lius Schu­bert (Dort­mund): Medi­zi­ni­sche Akten. Verhält­nisse von Flüch­ti­gem und Fixier­tem

Maren Lehmann (Fried­richs­ha­fen): Sozi­ale Mobi­li­tät, symbo­li­sche Fixie­rung: Die Person als Akte

12:00 – 12:30 Uhr

Café

12:30 – 13:30 Uhr

Sebas­tian Gieß­mann (Siegen): Einein­deu­tig­keit. Digi­tale Akten­form und Block­chain-basierte Trans­ak­ti­o­nen

13:30 – 14:30 Uhr

Mittag­es­sen

14:30 – 15:30 Uhr

Anna Tusch­ling (Bochum):
Vor der Digi­ta­li­sie­rung: Kartei und Akte in der frühen Daten­ver­a­r­bei­tung ab 1950

15:30 – 16:00 Uhr

Abschluss und Abreise

Der Workshop ist eine Kooperation zwischen dem SFB 1187 „Medien der Kooperation“ und dem SFB 1472 „Transformationen des Populären“ in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Österreichischen Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport (Sektion III – Öffentlicher Dienst und Verwaltungsinnovation)

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
AH 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Mi. 01. Februar 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Werkstatt Medienpraxistheorie - "Dances with Categories: Towards the anthropology of 'Technology', Technicity and Technodiversity" - Vortrag von Ludovic Coupaye
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01. Februar 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 Uhr

This lecture explores how “Technology” is a category vernacular (emic) to modernity which, when used, inscribes the phenomena it refers to within an utilitarian, rationalist and Eurocentric frame. Building on the works of the Francophone Technologie Culturelle, the paper suggests going back to Marcel Mauss’s definition of “technical acts”, focalising on the issue of “efficacy”. The paper claims that it is by taking seriously the efficacy according to the actors themselves, whether computer engineers, long yam growers or shamans, that one can built a methodological frame able to empirically analyse technical (or ritual or aesthetic) phenomena, and their profound axiological import, without sacrificing their material or conceptual diversity, or their spatial or temporal complexity. It opens up with a call for an anthropology of technicity and technodiversity which analyse the different modalities of actions and relations between humans and their milieus.

See also:

15|11|22 The normative order of sensing – Lecture with Lorenza Mondada
24|1|23 ‚One last round!‘ Towards a Critical Ethnomethodology of Climate Change – Lecture with Thomas Scheffer

Veranstaltungsort

Universität zu Köln
neuer Senatssaal
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
Köln
Mi. 01. Februar 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 Uhr
Werkstatt Medienpraxistheorie - "Dances with Categories: Towards the anthropology of 'Technology', Technicity and Technodiversity" - Workshop mit Ludovic Coupaye
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01. Februar 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 Uhr

The workshop is a pre-discussion of the lecture on the same topic exploring how “Technology” is a category vernacular (emic) to modernity which, when used, inscribes the phenomena it refers to within an utilitarian, rationalist and Eurocentric frame. Building on the works of the Francophone Technologie Culturelle, the paper suggests going back to Marcel Mauss’s definition of “technical acts”, focalising on the issue of “efficacy”. The paper claims that it is by taking seriously the efficacy according to the actors themselves, whether computer engineers, long yam growers or shamans, that one can built a methodological frame able to empirically analyse technical (or ritual or aesthetic) phenomena, and their profound axiological import, without sacrificing their material or conceptual diversity, or their spatial or temporal complexity. It opens up with a call for an anthropology of technicity and technodiversity which analyse the different modalities of actions and relations between humans and their milieus.

*As the workshop is an internal event, external guests please contact Dr. Johannes Schick by email for registration, indicating their academic title, full name, their institution, their official email address and the title of the event they wish to attend.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Di. 31. Januar 2023, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung: "Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy" – Alexander Gerner: "Hacking into Aesthetics and Politics of (AI-)Avatarization and algorithmic faciality"
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31. Januar 2023, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr

„Hacking into Aesthetics and Politics of (AI-)Avatarization and algorithmic faciality“

In Neil Stephanson’s 1992 dystopian sci-fi novel „Snowcrash,“ the Metaverse is an escape from the reality of the novel’s main character, Hiro, a nearly broke computer hacker and pizza delivery driver who spends much of his time „there.“ He accesses the Metaverse by wearing goggles and earphones and appears within the Virtual world as his own customized Avatar. In computing, an Avatar is a graphical representation of a user or the user’s character, a playable character or persona, a „playable figure“ -besides a prosthetic marionette. A digital Avatar can also be a virtual assistant, a representative in the digital world, such as the Metaverse. This standard working definition of the Avatar leads to theoretical tensions between primarily computational or computer-generated gamification (games) and ludification (human play and its ludic actors) and respective control and degrees of freedom.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create avatars with human-like facial features can impact how we interact with technology and each other significantly and how we become others. These avatars, which can be used as virtual assistants or in gaming and different virtual environments, can mimic human behavior and emotions (cf Ekman´s FACS), leading to the possibility of anthropomorphism. While interacting with LLM-based conversational agents (such as Chat-GPT) may create the illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature, these systems are fundamentally not like humans. They can be inscrutable, presenting a mix of superhuman and inhuman abilities. It may take time for us to learn how to handle these new kinds of entities and resist the temptation of anthropomorphism, especially if endowed with algorithmic faciality. However, the use of AI avatars also raises questions about agency, control, and dependency, as well as the potential for manipulating individuals through these avatars. The use of AI to create realistic avatars also raises aesthetic concerns, such as the influence of an avatar’s „cuteness“ or likability on people’s preferences and the potential for reinforcing normativity of specific beauty standards and aesthetic manipulation of behavior.

Additionally, using AI avatars in work and social situations brings up issues of identity and blurring boundaries between the virtual and physical worlds. As AI technology continues to advance and the use of AI avatars becomes more widespread, it will be essential to consider this development’s ethical and social implications. Ganism and other computer-generated or machine-learning algorithms produce sociality via platformed faciality as the mimetic algorithmic social-political designed system of platformed digital life without alterity experience, present -in contrast- in between humans‘ face-to-face encounters (Levinas). This talk will hack with artistic and activist dramaturgies/strategies into algorithmic faciality.

Alexander Gerner (PhD) is a playwright and researcher in philosophy of science and technology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon 2012) where he is Vice-head of the Research Group RG3- Philosophy of Technology, Human Sciences Art and Society at the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences, University of Lisbon (CFCUL). Gerner teaches, among others in “History and Philosophy of Technology“ and „Computer and Society“ at FCUL. At the moment he is writing on a book on aesthetic, anthropotechnical, political and ethical impact of AI Avatars. He investigates human technology, social resonance, ethics and AI aesthetics in a critical approach to algorithmic rationalities in his research project „Hacking Humans. Dramaturgies and Technologies to become other.“

About the Lecture Series

This semester we focus on concepts that can critically address the ongoing crises of the digital age (e.g. information, climate, resources, discrimination) and might help to develop new critical practices, an understanding of the present and the future that we are facing. These concepts are Aesthetics & Evidence, Critique and Imagineries, (Data) Governance and Activism, (Interactive/value-sensitive) Design and Decolonialism. Even though all of these concepts deserve a lecture series on their own, we chose to have for each of these topics one lecture in order to create a kaleidoscopic and interdisciplinary perspective on what critical practices and future “Politics of Data and Semi-Autonomy” can look like.

The lecture series takes place as a hybrid event Wednesday from 2 to 4 pm c.t.. External guests can join online by registering here.

See also:

23|11|22 – Investigative Aesthetics with Matthew Fuller
7|12|22 – Sensing Machines with Chris Salter
18|1|23 – Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy with Orit Halpern

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Do. 26. Januar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Lecture Series "Research at Risk" - Oleksiy Radynski: "The Deal of the Century: Towards the Genealogy of Fossil Fascism"
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26. Januar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

The Deal of the Century: Towards the Genealogy of Fossil Fascism.

In 1970, a contract was signed between the USSR and the Federal Republic of Germany, envisioning the deliveries of Siberian natural gas in exchange for German technology. This ‘Deal of the century’, as dubbed by the Soviet media, is known in the West under a humbler name ‘gas in exchange for pipes’. The presentation looks at the afterlife of this deal between Russia and Germany and discusses the impact on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as well as ideological implications of extractivism and trade with Russian fossil fuels and how this affects Russian (and German) politics. Taking 1970 as a point of departure, it’s worth asking: What if the Pipe is the new Wall, an infrastructure of oppression that’s fluid rather than rigid, dissecting and transversing the continent with invisible energy flows that help authoritarian economic models dominate over democratic politics?

 

About the lecture series

In view of the current political situation, especially the war in Ukraine and the protest movement in Iran, the lecture series “Research at Risk!” is an invitation to discuss the challenges of research in media, theater and cultural studies in crises and war regions beyond national and cultural boundaries. We have invited experts from various disciplinary and geo-political situations/positions to present their research on topics related to the wars and crises in our world and how this affects their research.

The lectures focus on research practices in war and crises as well as on scientific/activist work on war and crises. Specifically, our speakers address the questions of how research, education and study can be carried out under hostile conditions and what influence war, political oppression, diaspora and other crisis-related impacts have on the production of knowledge. Which forms of knowledge and cultures receive credit in the academic world, and which are excluded? Where do scientists and students place the significance of the media when faced with these circumstances?

The event is a continuation of an initiative from within German Media Studies to support scholars at risk affected by the ongoing Russian invasion on Ukraine. We want to use the attention currently being raised by the war in Ukraine to give stage to researchers from various zones of war and risk across Europe and worldwide, including Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Turkey, Kamerun, and Afghanistan.

The lecture series „Research at Risk“ is a cooperation project of German media scholars and supported by: the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, the CRC 1472 “Transformationen des Popuren and the Media Studies department at the University of Siegen, the Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische and the Faculty for Philology at Ruhr University Bochum, and the European Media Studies at the University Flensburg.

Guests are welcome to register via Mail ‘Send an E-mail

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Online-Veranstaltung
Mi. 25. Januar 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Forschungsforum: Synthese aus der Klausurtagung
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25. Januar 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Mi. 25. Januar 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 Uhr
Werkstatt Medienpraxistheorie - "'One last round!' Towards a Critical Ethnomethodology of Climate Change" - Workshop mit Thomas Scheffer
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25. Januar 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 Uhr

The talk unfolds mundane events in the light of the members‘ methodical responses to pressing tasks. It discusses the practical as well as analytical status of climate change as an omnipresent existential problem, questioning the reproduction of society. This is why the events implicate the sociologists in various membership categories: as bystander, participant, and contemporary.

Thomas Scheffer is professor for sociology with an emphasis on interpretative social research. He worked and published on asylum, law policing, political work, and, recently, on sociology and climate change. His research methods cover CA, MCA, studies of work, ethnography, and discourse analysis. He developed the trans-sequential analysis for linking events and processes of meaning production.

 

*As the workshop is an internal event, external guests please contact Dr. Johannes Schick by email for registration, indicating their academic title, full name, their institution, their official email address and the title of the event they wish to attend.

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Di. 24. Januar 2023, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr
Werkstatt Medienpraxistheorie - "'One last round!' Towards a Critical Ethnomethodology of Climate Change" - Vortrag von Thomas Scheffer
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24. Januar 2023, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr

The talk unfolds mundane events in the light of the members‘ methodical responses to pressing tasks. It discusses the practical as well as analytical status of climate change as an omnipresent existential problem, questioning the reproduction of society. This is why the events implicate the sociologists in various membership categories: as bystander, participant, and contemporary.

Thomas Scheffer is professor for sociology with an emphasis on interpretative social research. He worked and published on asylum, law policing, political work, and, recently, on sociology and climate change. His research methods cover CA, MCA, studies of work, ethnography, and discourse analysis. He developed the trans-sequential analysis for linking events and processes of meaning production.

 

 

 

See also:

15|11|22 The normative order of sensing – Lecture with Lorenza Mondada
1|2|23 Dances with Categories: Technodiversity and the Anthropology of Technics and Technology – Lecture with Ludovic Coupaye in Cologne

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Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Mo. 23. Januar 2023, 9:30 - 13:00 Uhr
Introduction to Diversity in Research Part II: Reflecting Power Relations and your own Position in the Research Field
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23. Januar 2023, 9:30 - 13:00 Uhr

Continuation of Part I (16.1.)

Lead by Constantina Rokos, M.A., Social Anthropologist

Research and associated research fields involve numerous diversity-facets that pose challenges. Thus, science and knowledge creation are based on the assumption that researchers move appropriately and reflectively within the research fields. Researchers must be consequently trained to reflect on their position and power relations in their field to conduct research appropriately.

Constantina Rokos, M.A. is a research fellow and decentralized equal opportunity officer at the Münster School of Business (FH Münster). She specializes in intercultural competences and DEI from an educational and research perspective. A self-reflexive and ethnological approach characterizes her work.

This workshop serves as a first approach to self-reflective and diversity-sensitive discussions to recognize one’s practice and the diversity of one’s field and to develop appropriate research behaviors.

The Workshop is held in English and will take place online on two days

Monday, 16 Jan 9.30 – 13.00
Monday, 23 Jan 9.30 – 13.00

Intended group: all members (m, f, d) of the SFB 1187 

We kindly ask for registration by 02 January 2023 here.

Veranstaltungsort

Online-Veranstaltung
Do. 19. Januar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Lecture Series "Research at Risk" - Kateryna Myhaylyova: "Media Space as a Means of Forming Social Memory of the War: Case of Ukraine2022"
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19. Januar 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

Media Space as a Means of Forming Social Memory of the War: Case of Ukraine-2022

This Lecture will focus on three central points:

  1. Theoretical foundations for social memory analysis. Social memory as a construct outside of time. Attributes of social memory in the theories of Halbwachs, Warburg, Assman, Tosh, Nora.
  2. Media as a way of filling social memory “boxes” . A brief overview of the possibilities. Military media in Ukraine: distribution and characteristics of audiences. Redistribution of consumption. New media space: quantity and quality.
  3. Media content in Ukrainian realities: substantive accents. Constructing the future: what is embedded in the social memory of the media about the war, which is not yet over…

 

About the lecture series

In view of the current political situation, especially the war in Ukraine and the protest movement in Iran, the lecture series “Research at Risk!” is an invitation to discuss the challenges of research in media, theater and cultural studies in crises and war regions beyond national and cultural boundaries. We have invited experts from various disciplinary and geo-political situations/positions to present their research on topics related to the wars and crises in our world and how this affects their research.

The lectures focus on research practices in war and crises as well as on scientific/activist work on war and crises. Specifically, our speakers address the questions of how research, education and study can be carried out under hostile conditions and what influence war, political oppression, diaspora and other crisis-related impacts have on the production of knowledge. Which forms of knowledge and cultures receive credit in the academic world, and which are excluded? Where do scientists and students place the significance of the media when faced with these circumstances?

The event is a continuation of an initiative from within German Media Studies to support scholars at risk affected by the ongoing Russian invasion on Ukraine. We want to use the attention currently being raised by the war in Ukraine to give stage to researchers from various zones of war and risk across Europe and worldwide, including Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Turkey, Kamerun, and Afghanistan.

The lecture series „Research at Risk“ is a cooperation project of German media scholars and supported by: the CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, the CRC 1472 “Transformationen des Popuren and the Media Studies department at the University of Siegen, the Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische and the Faculty for Philology at Ruhr University Bochum, and the European Media Studies at the University Flensburg.

Guests are welcome to register via Mail ‘Send an E-mail

Veranstaltungsort

Online-Veranstaltung
Mi. 18. Januar 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr
Ringvorlesung: "Politics of Data – Politics of Semi-Autonomy" – Orit Halpern: "The Smartness Mandate"
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18. Januar 2023, 14:15 - 15:45 Uhr

„The Smartness Mandate“

Today, growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic volatility have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, scientists, and governments towards computational technologies as sites of potential salvation from a world consistently defined by catastrophes and “crisis”. From large scale computer simulations of the weather, to smart cities and infrastructures, to geo-engineering projects, we have arguably transformed the planet into a test-bed and experiment for computational technologies. The penetration of almost every part of life by digital technologies has transformed how we understand nature, culture, and time. But what futures are we imagining, or foreclosing through these planetary “experiments”? How have we come to see human survival as fundamentally dependent on computational networks? This talk maps the rise of this “smartness mandate”. Tracing genealogies from population biology, artificial intelligence, finance, urban planning, and ecology I will develop an account of how ubiquitous computing has become one the dominant governing logics of our present and to what effects.

About the Lecture Series

This semester we focus on concepts that can critically address the ongoing crises of the digital age (e.g. information, climate, resources, discrimination) and might help to develop new critical practices, an understanding of the present and the future that we are facing. These concepts are Aesthetics & Evidence, Critique and Imagineries, (Data) Governance and Activism, (Interactive/value-sensitive) Design and Decolonialism. Even though all of these concepts deserve a lecture series on their own, we chose to have for each of these topics one lecture in order to create a kaleidoscopic and interdisciplinary perspective on what critical practices and future “Politics of Data and Semi-Autonomy” can look like.

The lecture series takes place as a hybrid event Wednesday from 2 to 4 pm c.t.. External guests can join online by registering here.

See also:

23|11|22 – Investigative Aesthetics with Matthew Fuller
7|12|22 – Sensing Machines with Chris Salter
31|1|23 – Hacking into Aesthetics and Politics of (AI-)Avatarization and algorithmic facialitiy with Alexander Gerner

Veranstaltungsort

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Mo. 16. Januar 2023, 9:30 - 13:00 Uhr
Introduction to Diversity in Research: Reflecting Power Relations and your own Position in the Research Field *fällt aus*
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16. Januar 2023, 9:30 - 13:00 Uhr

Lead by Constantina Rokos, M.A., Social Anthropologist

Research and associated research fields involve numerous diversity-facets that pose challenges. Thus, science and knowledge creation are based on the assumption that researchers move appropriately and reflectively within the research fields. Researchers must be consequently trained to reflect on their position and power relations in their field to conduct research appropriately.

This workshop serves as a first approach to self-reflective and diversity-sensitive discussions to recognize one’s practice and the diversity of one’s field and to develop appropriate research behaviors.

Constantina Rokos, M.A. is a research fellow and decentralized equal opportunity officer at the Münster School of Business (FH Münster). She specializes in intercultural competences and DEI from an educational and research perspective. A self-reflexive and ethnological approach characterizes her work.

The Workshop is held in English and will take place online on two days

Monday, 16 Jan 9.30 – 13.00
Monday, 23 Jan 9.30 – 13.00

Intended group: all members (m, f, d) of the SFB 1187 

We kindly ask for registration by 02 January 2023 here.

Veranstaltungsort

Online-Veranstaltung

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