Upcoming Events

Sat. 13 May 2023 - Sat. 17 June 2023
Exhibition: Reinventing Touch. Sensory practices in digital childhoods
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13 May 2023 - 17 June 2023

Ausstellung Berührung Neu Erfinden

13 May – 17 June 2023
Thursdays to Saturdays 14:00 – 18:00

Vernissage on Siegen Open University Day (“Tag der offenen Uni”), 13.5.2023 from 16:00
Special opening hours:
Family Day on 15.5, Digital Day on 16.6.

What happens to touch when we come together digitally? Does it get lost, or altered, or is it set loose to wander between and among the senses? Where humans interact with digital devices, the limits of what can be understood as touch appear to be shifting. Those unstable limits can be studied, probed, und experienced in the exhibition “Reinventing touch”: a camera ethnographic Blicklabor (laboratory of gazes) in which hands, heads, arms, faces, voices, earth, and glass interact as media of touch. The exhibited video installations provoke reflection on and reconsideration of touch, the senses, and digital media. Their protagonists are children for whom the digital is an integral part of everyday life – a generation that never experienced the analogue “old days”, and never will. Perhaps now is the time to ask whether touch is currently undergoing reinvention – in early childhood and beyond.

An exhibition by the camera ethnographic research team Bina E. Mohn, Pip Hare, and Astrid Vogelpohl together with Jutta Wiesemann, PI of the research project “Early Childhood and Smartphone“ beim Sonderforschungsbereich „Medien der Kooperation“ within the collaborative research centre 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, Germany. Realised in collaboration with greinerdesign and hosted by the Haus der Wissenschaft, Siegen.

Venue

Haus der Wissenschaft
Villa Sauer
Obergraben 23
57072 Siegen

Links

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Thu. 08 June 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Klasse Klima
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08 June 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Tue. 13 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Gender & Diversity Lunch with Prof. Dr. Swantje Köbsell
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13 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45

Further information to follow

About the series:

The “Gender & Diversity Lunch” series invites all members of the CRC “Media of Cooperation” and “Transformations of the Popular” to an exchange on current topics and issues in the fields of gender equality, diversity and the compatibility of family and science. The goal of the series is to facilitate networking between CRC members and individuals from different fields and with different biographical experiences. A guest on a particular topic is invited to each event. The series is held at lunchtime, including a snack. Suggestions for topics and guests are always welcome.

 

A collaborative format of CRC 1187 & 1472 on equal opportunities

 

Registration via Nadine Daub (nadine.daub@student.uni-siegen.de)

Venue

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 14 June 2023, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum
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14 June 2023, 14:15 - 16:15

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Thu. 15 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Leila Papoli-Yazdi
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15 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Thu. 22 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Tjan Zaotschaja
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22 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Thu. 29 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Asia Bazdyrieva
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29 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Wed. 05 July 2023, 18:00 - 20:00
Workshop Media Praxis Theory: "Machine Learning Philosophy, or The Digital as Twin and Echo” - Lecture by Alexander R. Galloway (online)
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05 July 2023, 18:00 - 20:00

Digital Philosophy is the school of thought behind machine learning. Or is it? If words like “digital” and “analog” describe media artifacts, they are also modes of thinking and being, with the digital closely aligned with rationalism, logic, and politics, while the analog with empiricism, aesthetics, and ethics. In this presentation we will go searching for the digital philosopher, his claims and assumptions, in the hopes of better historicizing the digital within contemporary life.

Alexander R. Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation. Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, he is author of several books on digital media and critical theory, including most recently “Uncomputable” (Verso, 2021).

Thu. 06 July 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Azadeh Ganjeh
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06 July 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Wed. 12 July 2023, 18:00 - 19:30
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - "Captured Populations at the Heart of Social Media" - Lecture by Wendy Chun
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12 July 2023, 18:00 - 19:30

More Information to follow.

*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.

Thu. 13 July 2023, 10:00 - 12:00
Workshop Media Praxis Theory: "Discriminating Data" - Workshop by Wendy Chun
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13 July 2023, 10:00 - 12:00

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*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.

Thu. 13 July 2023, 14:00 - 16:00
Workshop Media Praxis Theory- "Sensor Practices – Practicing Sensing" - Workshop by Geoffrey Bowker
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13 July 2023, 14:00 - 16:00

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*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.

Mon. 17 July 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - tba
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17 July 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Mon. 18 September 2023 - Fri. 22 September 2023
Summer School - "t.b.a"
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18 September 2023 - 22 September 2023

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Tue. 17 October 2023 - Tue. 17 October 2023
Introduction to Financial Strategies and Retirement Provision - Claudia Müller
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17 October 2023 - 17 October 2023, 10:00 - 12:00
The presentation will introduce main aspects and reasons on why and how we should care about our financial situations and future plans, e.g. 
  • first steps and easy ways, 
  • saving and investing for beginners, 
  • general gap in retirement provisions and finances for (future) families
  • our academic situation and the financial challenges that come with it
There will be short inputs and time for questions and discussion. No prior knowledge is required. 
 
The presentation will be hold Claudia Müller from Female Finance Forum (www.femalefinanceforum.de) who has a background in international economics and political science and is an expert on sustainable investment.
 
We can offer 5 additional individual coaching slots afterwards for our female members. If you are interested contact selina.seibt@student.uni-siegen.de.
 
The event will be in English and take place online.

Venue

Online event

Past Events

Thu. 01 June 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Ahmad Idrees Rahmani
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01 June 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Wed. 31 May 2023, 14:15 - 16:15
Research Forum
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31 May 2023, 14:15 - 16:15

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Thu. 25 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Cara Daggett
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25 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Wed. 24 May 2023 - Fri. 26 May 2023
Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems
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24 May 2023 - 26 May 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 (Yale University, CT, USA)

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 (Centre for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, DE)

What Was the Smart Speaker? | David Waldecker, Axel Volmar, Tim Hector and Christine Hrncal (CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, DE)

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 (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)

Frameworks as Infrastructures of Conversational AI | Marcus Burkhardt and Susanne Förster (CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, DE)

19:30

Dinner

10:00–11:15

Keynote:

Text as Task: A Guide to the Transformer Architecture and its Language Ideologies | Michael Castelle (University of Warwick, UK)

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 (University of Luxembourg, LUX)

What Python Can’t Do: Language Ideologies in Programming Courses for Natural Language Processing | Joseph Wilson (University of Toronto, CAN)

13:00–14:15

Lunch @ Mensa Food Court

14:15–15:45

Session 4:

Pragmatics in the History of NLP | Evan Donahue (Tokyo College, JPN)

Understanding the Limitations of Large Language Models | Ole Pütz and Steffen Eger (Bielefeld University, DE)

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15–17:45

Session 5:

Indexing Semantic Association | Tyler Shoemaker (University of California Davis, CA, USA)

It Is a Match: Language, AI-Powered Matchmaking and the Politics of Employability | Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK)

18:30

Dinner

10:00-11:15

Keynote

ChatGPT: Genre, Scale, Animacy | Ilana Gershon (Rice University, TX, USA)

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:00

Session 6

Reconfiguring the Regimentation of Multilingualism: From National Epistemology to Global Surveillance | Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina, DE)

Voice Diagnostics and Stress Monitoring: Infrastructuring and Automation of Health Data | Tanja Knaus and Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo, NOR)

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 (University of Luxembourg, LUX)

Abstracting Away: ‘Speakers’ and Minoritised Communication Ideologies | Alicia Fuentes-Calle (University of York, UK)

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-17:15

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

18:30

Optional Dinner

 

Venue

University of Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
Building C, Room 109
Unteres Schloss 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 17 May 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
Research Forum
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17 May 2023, 14:15 - 15:45

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Tue. 16 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Gender & Diversity Lunch with Johanna Pitetti-Heil: "Gender Studies as a Critical Practice"
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16 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:45

The talk discusses the field of Gender Studies by addressing its changes from gender to queer studies, lived realities of researchers (and students) and white womanhood and allyship. What does it mean to engage in gender studies as a critical practice?

Johanna Pitetti-Heil is a tenured senior lecturer (Akademische Rätin) for gender and diversity studies at the English Department of the University of Cologne. 

About the series:

The “Gender & Diversity Lunch” series invites all members of the CRC “Media of Cooperation” and “Transformations of the Popular” to an exchange on current topics and issues in the fields of gender equality, diversity and the compatibility of family and science. The goal of the series is to facilitate networking between CRC members and individuals from different fields and with different biographical experiences. A guest on a particular topic is invited to each event. The series is held at lunchtime, including a snack. Suggestions for topics and guests are always welcome.

 

A collaborative format of CRC 1187 & 1472 on equal opportunities

 

Registration via Selina Seibt (selina.seibt@student.uni-siegen.de)

Venue

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Thu. 11 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Lecture Series „Research at Risk“ - Nanna-Maria Grüning
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11 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
About the Lecture Series “Research at Risk: Fossil Authoritarianism and Climate Catastrophe”
The climate catastrophe and the war against Ukraine are bringing the problem of fossil fuels to a head. The extraction, consumption, and trade of fossil fuels are not only threatening to our ecosystem on a planetary scale, but our social and democratic orders as well. Concepts such as “petromasculinity” (Cara New Daggett), “petrofascism” (Andreas Malm/Zetkin Kollektiv), “pollution as colonialism” (Max Liboiron) or climate racism (Black Earth Collective, Matthias Quent et al.) make the interconnectedness of demands for climate justice and intersectional critique blatantly obvious. Not only do Petroregimes, rooted in colonial regimes, that manifested over the last century persist in contradiction to a majority of scientific ways of knowing, they also form – or are enmeshed in – structures of power that threaten the conditions of free and democratic research and art as well as the security and rights of researchers, artists and activists. To discuss the various dimensions of state, colonial, or patriarchal power and violence in their relationship to fossil fuels and petro-industries, we invite international thinkers from the humanities and sciences, journalists, artists and filmmakers. This second iteration of our lecture series “Research at Risk” thereby focusses on specific structures that, while also producing concrete threats, above all must be considered the (indirect) cause of war and forced migration. The interests of state and non-state actors in the preservation of fossil-fueled ways of life and production play a crucial role in these structures. The dangers of petro authoritarianism are not only directed at individual researchers, but also at research in its democratic potential as a place of knowledge exchange and criticism, including questions about the (extractivist) conditions under which research takes place, what is recognized as such and what is not. How are collaborations between science, journalism, art and activism possible? How can we enable knowledge in feminist, anti-racist or decolonial research that acts and calls for action?
 
Organised by: University Siegen: Professur für Medienästhetik, SFB 1187 “Medien der Kooperation”; Ruhr-University Bochum: DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2132 “Das Dokumentarische. Exzess und Entzug”; and Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Initiative Grün
Wed. 10 May 2023, 14:15 - 15:45
Research Forum
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10 May 2023, 14:15 - 15:45

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/218
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen
Wed. 10 May 2023, 10:00 - 12:00
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - "Weapons of the Geek: On the Plurality of Hacking" - Workshop with Gabriella Coleman
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10 May 2023, 10:00 - 12:00

More Information to follow.

*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.

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Tue. 09 May 2023, 18:00 - 19:30
Workshop Media Praxis Theory - "The Hack and Leak and the Rise of a New Hacktivist Tactic" - Lecture by Gabriella Coleman
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09 May 2023, 18:00 - 19:30

Today, if the New York Times published an article covering how and why a hacktivist busted into a computer system, swiped data, and dumped it for the public at large, no one would bat an eye—the organization might even have used the email for some of their reporting. This tactic, however commonplace today, and used by hacktivist crew and nation-state alike, barely existed prior to 2011, even though hypothetically it could have, given existing technical and ideological conditions that had been around for at least a decade. 

This talk will unveil the prehistory and history of the hack-and-leak tactic with a focus on material, infrastructural conditions, along with the prominent role played by the hacktivist collective Anonymous in popularizing what I argue is a novel tactic used only sparingly prior to the forceful appearance of the hacktivist wing around 2010. The hack-and-leak stabilized only in 2011, an exceptional year of political ferment characterized by waves of street-based demonstrations and the ascendancy of the hacker as a major geopolitical force. With Anonymous and WikiLeaks, hackers pushed the levers of power in new and far more consequential ways, making hack-and-leaks the stuff of foreign policy briefs and international relations debates. In this period, Anonymous hackers twice stumbled upon newsworthy documents that they then published on accessible platforms like the Pirate Bay or WikiLeaks. Their conspicuous brand of hacking—accompanied by catchy digital posters and videos—lured in media professionals who boosted Anonymous’s profile and by extension raised the profile of this mode of disclosure, ensuring that scattered instances of this method would crystallize into a template for emulation.

*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.

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 217/18
Mon. 08 May 2023, 18:30 - 20:30
Podiumsdiskussion: Zwischen Komfort und Ausbeutung: Privatheit in Haushalten im Zeitalter der Überwachung durch Smart Technologies
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08 May 2023, 18:30 - 20:30

Die digitale Vernetzung des Haushalts ist seit einigen Jahren durch Sprachassistenten und eine Reihe an vernetzten Haushaltsgeräten – Kaffeemaschinen, Glühbirnen, Türschlösser und weitere – möglich geworden. Während die Technik als moderne, sichere und bequeme Form der Haushaltsführung beworben wird, bemängeln Kritiker*innen den Ressourcenverbrauch und das Mithören im privaten Lebensumfeld.

Die Podiumsdiskussion wird den Stand der Technik, Erkenntnisse zur tatsächlichen Nutzung und die Überwachungs- und Dienstleistungspotentiale des Smart Homes beleuchten.

Gäste:

  • Dr. Miriam Lind (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“, Universität Mainz)
  • Prof. Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann (Professorin für Medien und Kommunikation, Universität Siegen)
  • Dr. Nicolai Horn (iRights Lab, Berlin)
  • PD Dr. Nils Zurawski (Universität Hamburg)

Moderation:

  • Vera Linß (Moderation und Journalistin, u.a. DLF Kultur „Breitband“)

Eintritt frei. Anmeldung erbeten, per E-Mail an ipa-studie@uni-siegen.de.

 

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
Seminarzentrum am Obergraben
Obergraben 25
57072 Siegen

Links

Anmeldung

Contact

SFB 1187, Teilprojekt B06
David Waldecker / Tim Hector
ipa-studie@uni-siegen.de
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Mon. 08 May 2023, 12:00 - 14:00
Michael Lynch: "Discovering Work as a Topic in Science & Technology Studies"
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08 May 2023, 12:00 - 14:00

Discovering Work as a Topic in Science & Technology Studies

Following some interesting work in the 1970s and 1980s, the topic of discovery gradually faded from prominence in social studies of science. Several reasons can be given for this disinterest in the topic: the rise of social constructivist science studies in the 1980s was accompanied by skepticism about individualistic and realist conceptions of discovery. In addition, with the rise of intellectual property concerns, the sciences themselves (especially the biomedical sciences) downplayed the idea of discovery in favor of more active conceptions of innovation. Consequently, talk of discovery, moments of discovery, and natural objects awaiting their discovery were dismissed as naïve. This paper reviews the concept of discovery and problems associated with it, and suggests that Harold Garfinkel’s conception of discovering work sets up a social research agenda that avoids individualistic, mentalistic, and realist conceptions.

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
US-C 114
Mon. 08 May 2023 - Tue. 09 May 2023
Conference: „Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction und Discourse“
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08 May 2023 - 09 May 2023

Program | Venue | Program booklet (PDF)

We cordially invite you to the conference organized by project B06 on 8 and 9 May 2023:

“Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse”.

Voice assistants, also known as “Intelligent personal assistants” (IPAs), have been around for almost a decade. They can be found as smart speakers in private households where they are used to support the organisation of everyday domestic life and as a platform for controlling smart home devices; at the same time, they have been added to other devices: smartphones and cars are equipped with IPAs. While they are advertised as the newest addition to a digitally-connected and thus smart lifestyle , they have come under scrutiny, because the devices provide the manufacturers with data of the users – among other things from a particularly protected area, the domestic private sphere.

The conference “Voice Assistants in Private Homes” aims to bring together analyses of the concrete use and adoption of the devices and services, the assessments by the users and the discussion about the exploitation and utilisation of the data. Special attention will be paid to the IPA’s mode of operation. Unlike other media technologies, applications with voice-user interfaces rely on spoken commands and feedback; with chatbots or virtual agents, written-based or hybrid applications are also in use. Both modes, however, suggest that „natural language“ can be used with machines, in contrast to the machine-based syntax of command-line interfaces and point-and-click-interfaces. The associated data practices and analysis models as well as the specifics of the exchange between humans and machines – also in multi-person constellations – will be the focus of the conference and will be discussed in an integrated way. Accordingly, perspectives from conversation and media linguistics, media sociology, sociology of evaluation, surveillance studies, the critique of political economy and thus aspects of consumer research, domestication research, pragmatist and praxeological sociology will be brought together to shed light on the practical mediation of users, devices, algorithms, data, companies and exploitation. With this, we aim to analyse the phenomenon of IPA use at the level of interaction as well as at the level of perception and evaluation by the subject and at the level of everyday practices in households, and furthermore in relation to global processes of exploitation and data. Thereby we want to provide for a comprehensive look at the transformation and persistence of everyday practices under platformised conditions on the one hand, and at the transformation of usage practices through novel interfaces on the other.

Program

11:00–11:15

Begrüßung und Einführung

  • Daniel Stein, Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultät
  • Stephan Habscheid und Dagmar Hoffmann, Projektleitung B06

11:15–12:45

Keynote:

Konsumieren und Überwachen. Von den Praktiken der Kontrolle zu den Technologien des Alltags | Nils Zurawski

12:45–13:45

Mittagspause

13:45–15:30

Panel I:

Intelligente Persönliche Assistenten in der sprachlichen Interaktion

15:30–15:45

Kaffeepause

15:45–18:30

Panel II:

Überwachung und die ökonomische Auswertung von IPA-Daten

18:30

Podiumsdiskussion

Zwischen Komfort und Ausbeutung: Privatheit in Haushalten im Zeitalter der Überwachung durch Smart Technologies

09:30–11:15 a.m.

Keynote:

Projecting Life onto Machines | Simone Natale

11:15–11:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Panel III:

Intelligent Personal Assistants in Everyday Practice

1:15–2:30 p.m.

Lunch break

2:30–4:15 p.m.

Panel IV:

User’ Perspectives on the Practical Use Value and Data/Privacy Risks

4:15-4:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:30–6:15 p.m.

Panel V:

Theorizing Voice Assistant Use: Autonomy and Cynicism in the Platform Economy 

6:15-6.45 p.m.

Concluding remarks and farewell

Stephan Habscheid and Dagmar Hoffmann

 

Venue

Universität Siegen
Campus Unteres Schloss
Seminarzentrum am Obergraben
Obergraben 25
57072 Siegen

Contact

CRC 1187, Project B06
David Waldecker / Tim Hector
ipa-studie@uni-siegen.de
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Thu. 20 April 2023 - Thu. 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

 

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

 

 

 

Venue

University of Siegen
Am Herrengarten 3, Siegen
Tue. 18 April 2023, 12:15 - 13:45
Gender & Diversity Lunch with Meral Akkent: "Winning the city with women’s words and art"
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18 April 2023, 12:15 - 13:45

The talk discusses possibilities for a gender museum to intervene in the patriarchal discourse in public space, to increase the impact of feminist demands, to make ethnic and cultural diversity tangible, to practice participation.

About the series:

The “Gender & Diversity Lunch” series invites all members of the CRC “Media of Cooperation” and “Transformations of the Popular” to an exchange on current topics and issues in the fields of gender equality, diversity and the compatibility of family and science. The goal of the series is to facilitate networking between CRC members and individuals from different fields and with different biographical experiences. A guest on a particular topic is invited to each event. The series is held at lunchtime, including a snack. Suggestions for topics and guests are always welcome.

 

A collaborative format of CRC 1187 & 1472 on equal opportunities

 

Registration via Nadine Daub (nadine.daub@student.uni-siegen.de)

Venue

Uni Siegen Campus Herrengarten
AH-A 228
Herrengarten 3
57072 Siegen

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