• Dialogmöte: Utmaningar för kulturen och kulturskaparna i AI-utvecklingen

    Foto: Dipqi Ghozali     Välkommen till ett dynamiskt kunskapsutbyte där vi sätter strålkastarljuset på den snabbt växande AI-utvecklingen och dess påverkan på kulturskapare. I takt med att generativ AI tar plats i kreativa processer uppstår både nya möjligheter och brännande frågor. Hur skyddar vi upphovsrätt och konstnärlig integritet när algoritmer tränas på mänskligt skapande? Vad […]

  • PhD Defense: Multisensory Interactions with Biophilic Flying Robots

    Ziming Wang defends his doctoral thesis, “Multisensory Interactions with Biophilic Flying Robots” at Chalmers University of University. See event page. Abstract The relationship between nature and humanity has evolved throughout history and across technological epochs. This thesis advances the hypothesis that integrating natural characteristics into robot design can enrich human–computer interaction (HCI) by drawing on […]

  • Workshop: Girls Just Want to Have Sc(AI)ence—Part 5

    Reimagining the Politics of AI: Co-Creating Tools to Confront Gender-Related Violence Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. Such of today’s AI development is driven by large-scale models that demand vast datasets, compute resources and invisible human labour — often reinforcing the very inequalities […]

  • Study Abroad Tips and Tricks

    Interested in going abroad for a semester? WASP-HS PhD students are welcome to this session where your fellow PhD students who have been abroad can share their ideas and thoughts about their experience. Please join November 24, at 16:00 – 17:15.  Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65780063878  Generously funded by the Wallenberg Foundations.Subscribe to our newsletterContactAboutResearcher DirectoryNewsEventslinkedin

  • PhD Defense: Mapping Small Water Channels Using Machine Learning

    Mariana Busarello defends her doctoral thesis “Mapping small water channels using machine learning” on December 5 at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Abstract Boreal landscapes are shaped by a dense network of natural streams, modified streams, and ditches. Together, they regulate hydrology, nutrient transport, and ecosystem function. Historically, streams were modified to accommodate log transportation, […]

  • AI and Society: Fresh Perspectives from PhD Graduates

    Welcome to second webinar in the AI and Society: Fresh Perspectives form PhD Graduates series! Join us as newly minted PhD students from WASP-HS Graduate School discuss their insights into the implications and entanglements of AI for society and humanity in a series of lightning talks. Program "Conflicting Aims of Welfare Technology" Maria Arnelid, Linköping […]

  • AI Futures: Navigating Ethics, Law, and Heritage

    Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. Can AI models be lawfully and ethically trained on copyrighted and cultural heritage–protected materials? This question has become one of the most pressing and contested issues in Sweden’s AI and cultural policy landscape. Recent debates between rights-holder […]

  • Knowledge Exchange: Algorithm Watch

    We welcome all WASP-HS researhers to exchange knowledge about political aspects of algorithms together with Oliver Marsh from Algorithm Watch, Berlin. The goal of the one hour workshop is to explore strategies to manage the increasingly algorithm-driven society. Speaker Oliver Marsh, Head of Tech Research at Algorithm Watch About Algoritm Watch Algorithm Watch is a […]

  • PhD Defense: Life and AI at NASA: An Ethnography of How Scientists and Engineers Make Tools to Explore Other Worlds

    Alicja Ostrowska defends her PhD thesis, “Life and AI at NASA: An Ethnography of How Scientists and Engineers Make Tools to Explore Other Worlds” on 30 January at Chalmers University of Technology. See event page. Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly introduced into scientific practices, including NASA’s missions that explore conditions for life and habitability on […]

  • Winter Conference 2026

    The WASP-HS Winter Conference 2026 will be in LUX, the Joint Faculties for Humanities and Theology, at Lund University 4-6 February. It will be filled with workshops, poster presentations, and interactive discussions, with ample opportunity for networking. Please join us and contribute to the conversation!WASP-HS Annual Exchange Encountering DigitalizationWhat happens when interactions are automated and digital […]

  • PhD Defence: Figuring the Boundary Between Human and Robot

    On 6 March 2026, Dominika Lisy defends her doctoral thesis, “Figuring the Boundary between Human and Robot: A Feminist New Materialist Perspective on Dermally Layered Relationality”, at Linköping University. See event page. Abstract Social robots are expected to become ubiquitous across different areas  of both the private and public spheres of human life, assisting in care, education, […]

  • Girls Sc(AI)ence 7: Conversations on How AI is Eroding Human Rights (And What Can We Do About It)

    The 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 thcial, sustainable and inclusive technology-related practices and research.