Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office.
While feminist approaches to technoscience are getting increasing attention, fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Interaction and
Human-Computer Interaction are still male-dominated. Similarly, new technologies, from assistive robots to chatbots, are often imbued with the same intrinsic gender and ethnic stereotypes and biases present in our Western society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a feminist
reboot, praising more ethical, sustainable and inclusive research practices and epistemologies in the hope of better technology.
Our workshop series “Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence“ aims to foster knowledge and discussions on critical and feminist approaches to technology by engaging scholars working with AI from a variety of disciplines –from data science to art, political studies and philosophy, and invite them to reflect and imagine together how to use tools and theories from critical and feminist studies to implement more ethcial, sustainable and inclusive technology-related practices and research.
The workshop is arranged in a hybrid format on May 8, 2025:
– 10.00 to 10:45: Hybrid lecture on zoom
– 11:00 to 12.30: On-site lecture and workshop, Lund, Sweden.
Invited speaker: Annette Markham, Professor at Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
10.00 – 10.45: Keynote by Annette Markham, Professor at Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, Netherlands: hybrid.
How can we create methodological mindsets and sensibilities that give rise to alternate futures? How can critical perspectives, reflexivity, creativity,
and data science co-mingle?
In this talk and workshop, Professor Markham focuses on how to dismantle and then reconfigure disciplinary traditions for research design.
The mindset of remix is one way to consider how methods are not just tools, but make worlds. This talk encourages researchers to reflect on how all scientific practices embody fundamentally playful, inventive, and generative forms of interrogation and embracing less restrictive frameworks for engagement and analysis can form novel pathways through wicked polycrisis. To build the case for pushing boundaries,
Markham draws on her work conducting algorithmic literacy through arts-based community engagement as well as her work conducting close level sociological analysis of human-AI interactions.
(Coffee break)
11.00-12:30: Workshop session: on-site.
Please note that the exact location will be announced soon.
Register for the workshop here.
