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Winter Conference 2025

This year’s conference will be at Aula Magna, Stockholm University on February 5-7. It will be filled with workshops, poster presentations, and interactive discussions, with ample opportunity for networking. We would like to thank Stockholm University for hosting the conference. With their generous support we have been able to expand the it to the entire WASP-HS community, PhD students, supervisors, PIs. A few sessions (marked with * in the program below) will also be open to the general public.
Please join us and contribute to the conversation!
Annual WASP-HS Exchange
Democracy and/in the Autopilot: A Conversation on Power, Policy and Data in Public Autonomous Systems
This year, WASP-HS will host the first annual WASP-HS Exchange. We look forward to a conversation between an internationally renowned guest researcher and a WASP-HS researcher on innovation policy and autonomous vehicles.
Speakers
Mark Fagan
Lecturer in Public Policy and former Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
Petter Falk
PhD in Political Science at Karlstad University
Hannah Pelikan (moderator)
Postdoctor at the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University
Poster sessions for all
Come and see the most recent PhD project results and give your feedback and contribute with your insights.
Please download and use the poster template for the poster session.
Download poster template (.pptx)
Workshops for PhD students
PhD Students can choose to partake in one of six interactive workshops. Read more about each workshop via the following links.
Focus Group on Gricean Maxims of Conversation and XAI
Moderator: Leila Methnani, PhD student at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University
Recoding Responsibility: Rethinking Liability for Trust and Harm in AI Systems
Moderators: Samuel Carey, PhD student in Law at Stockholm University
Sarah de Heer, PhD student at Faculty of Law, Lund University
Sonia Bastigkeit-Ericstam, PhD student in Civil Law at Stockholm University
Subhalagna Choudhury, PhD student at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University
The Data Puzzle: A Moment of Collaborative Interpretation
Moderator: Charlotte Högberg, PhD student in Technology and Society at Lund University
Framing AI: Discourse and Politics of AI
Moderators: Johannes Geith, PhD student at theDepartment of Political Science, Stockholm University
Emelie Karlsson, PhD student at the Department of Government, Uppsala University
Igor Ryazanov, PhD student at the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University
Meaningful Materialities for Social Robotics
Moderators: Rachael Garrett, PhD student at the Division of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dominika Lisy, PhD student at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University
Shaping Future Generations of Critical Thinkers with Educational Robots
Moderator: Pablo Oliveras, PhD student at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH Royal Instiitute of Technology
Program
Wednesday, February 5
09:00—12:00 Workshops for PhD students
Spelbomskan: Recoding Responsibility: Rethinking Liability for Trust and Harm in AI Systems
Mimer: Shaping Future Generations of Critical Thinkers with Educational Robots
Polstjärnan: The Data Puzzle: A Moment of Collaborative Interpretation
12:00—13:00 Lunch. PhD students prepare for poster session
(The Gallery, in Aula Magna)
13:00—15:00 WASP-HS Annual Exchange*
(in V. Hörsal, Aula Magna)
15:00—15:30 Coffee
(the Gallery)
15:30—17:30 Supervisor Meeting “What can the WASP-HS graduate school do better?”
(Bergmannen in Aula Magna)
15:30—17:30 From PhD to PostDoc
/PhD Student Council
(V. Hörsal in Aula Magna)
19:00 Conference dinner with PhD certificate ceremony
(Wenner-Gren Center)
Thursday, February 6
9:00—12:00 Poster sessions by PhD students*
(The Gallery in Aula Magna)
12:00—13:00 Lunch
(in Aula Magna)
13:00—17:00 Workshops for PhD students
Spelbomskan: Focus Group on Grecian Maxims of Conversation and XAI
Mimer: Meaningful Materialities for Social Robots
Polstjärnan: Framing AI: Discourse and Politics of AI
Friday, February 7
9:00—11:00 WASP-HS Project Highlights*
Kristina Höök, Pontus Strimling, and Jonas Tallberg will present their work.
(in Hörsalen E4 i Södra huset)
11:00 End of conference
*Open to the public! No registration is needed for these sessions.
Registration
The registration is closed.
