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SUMMARY:WASP-HS Summer School 2026 — Algorithmic Power and Discourse: AI\, Politics\, and the Production of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Mattias Pettersson \nWelcome to the WASP-HS Summer School 2026 where we will explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping power\, politics\, and the production of meaning in contemporary society. This year\, the summer school is hosted by the WASP-HS research environment AI\, Power and Politics and the DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå Universiy. \nArtificial intelligence is not only a technological development but a transformative force in how knowledge is produced\, circulated\, and legitimised. From algorithmic decision-making to generative AI\, these systems increasingly shape public discourse\, political processes\, and societal governance. This raises fundamental questions about power\, authority\, and the conditions under which truth and meaning are constructed. \nThis summer school creates a forum for WASP-HS PhD students where they can engage critically with these developments. Participants will explore how AI systems operate as infrastructures of power and as “discourse machines” that influence how societies understand themselves\, their pasts\, and their futures. \nThe program brings together theoretical perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to examine how artificial intelligence reshapes power\, politics\, and societal meaning-making. Through lectures\, workshops\, and collaborative discussions\, participants will take a critical perspective on AI as a socio-political force\, exploring its implications for knowledge\, governance\, and public life. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Thematic Areas\nThe thematic areas covered during the summer school are: \n– Algorithmic power and political economyAI as infrastructure of control\, dependency\, and profit \n– Discourse\, knowledge and meaning-makingAI systems as producers and mediators of knowledge and truth \n– Platforms\, disinformation and information environmentsAlgorithmic amplification\, generative AI\, and the dynamics of public discourse \n– Governance\, legitimacy and regulationDemocratic challenges in AI-driven decision-making \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Learning Outcomes\nThroughout the summer school\, participants will: \n– Develop a nuanced understanding of artificial intelligence as a socio-political force shaping contemporary societies \n– Critically examine how AI systems influence discourse\, knowledge production\, and relations of power \n– Strengthen their ability to engage in and contribute to interdisciplinary dialogue across fields \n– Build lasting academic networks within the WASP-HS community \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Program\nTBD \nRegistration\nTBD \nAI\, Power and Politics\nWant to know more about the WASP-HS research environment AI\, Power and Politics? \n			\n				Read more
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/summer-school-2026-on-ai-power-and-politics/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Politics of Models – Bias\, Representation & Transparency in Generative Models
DESCRIPTION:Generative models can capture an abstract representation of various modalities such as sound\, images\, video\, text\, and data. These models are now globally utilized for knowledge and content organization and synthesis. The generative AI models are integrated rapidly into research\, industry\, culture\, and the public sectors; where the accelerated growth hinders the considerations into societal implications of these rapid advancements. These models are new forms of knowledge representation\, in which the technical choices such as applied ontology or categorizations as well as the data sources and gathering processes\, influence\, imply\, and afford new forms of power and control on representation\, history\, culture\, and knowledge associations. Addressing these issues requires both technical advancement and research as well as societal grounding\, awareness in positionality\, and critical engagements. This workshop creates a shared space for WASP and WASP-HS researchers with the goal to build interdisciplinary research directions to influence a better and healthier societal integration of generative AI. \nTopics\nRepresentation & BiasAnalysis of representation and bias in generative models across modalities – sound\, images\, video\, text\, and data. \nPower & ControlUnderstanding the new forms of power and control enabled through generative AI over representation\, history\, and culture. \nTransparency & AccountabilityBuilding frameworks for transparent and accountable deployment of generative models in research and society. \nSocietal AlignmentAligning technical solutions with societal expectations\, needs\, and values for a healthier integration of AI. \n \nSchedule\n\n\nAugust 25: Arrival & Opening\nWelcome lunch\, introductory sessions\, and evening reception at Rånäs Slott. From lunch onwards \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAugust 26: Full Day of Sessions\nKeynotes\, interdisciplinary panels\, collaborative workshops\, and research discussions. Full day \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAugust 27: Closing & Departure\nFinal sessions\, synthesis of ideas\, future directions\, and farewell lunch. Ends with lunch  \n \nExpression of interest\nApply by April 17 to secure your spot. This workshop is open to researchers from both WASP and WASP-HS communities interested in the intersection of generative AI and societal implications. \nSpots are limited to 20 participants so make sure to fill in the Expression of Interest-form to get a chance to attend. Apply here. \n \nOrganizers\n\n\nKivanç Tatar\, Chalmers University of TechnologyKathlén Kohn\, KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMd Fahim Sikder\, Linköping UniversityFrancis Lee\, Södertörn UniversityBodil Formark\, Södertörn University
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/workshop-the-politics-of-models-bias-representation-transparency-in-generative-models/
LOCATION:Rånäs slott\, Rånäs Slott 762 96\, 762 96\, Sweden
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Theorizing AI and Society in the Nordics
DESCRIPTION:Theorizing AI and Society in the Nordics\nArtificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere: in welfare offices and hospital wards\, scientific laboratories and school classrooms\, customer service chatbots and administrative documentation systems. Hardly a day goes by without new claims being made about AI’s transformative or disruptive powers\, accompanied by promises of efficiency\, insight\, and radical institutional change. In this workshop\, we want to examine the hype\, practices\, and politics of “AI” in the context of Nordic societies.  \nWith highly digitalized societies and citizens\, digital public sectors\, extensive population registers\, and long traditions of automation and data-driven governance\, Nordic societies have lived with digital and automated systems for decades. Yet AI appears to extend these dynamics by entering the communicative and epistemic core of institutions: analyzing\, classifying\, writing\, advising\, summarizing\, and interacting across knowledge making practices\, from the lab to the welfare office. Following this\, we would like to discuss how AI systems reshape knowledge practices and institutions\, and what the implications might be for how we theorize AI in society. \nWorkshop themes\nNew objects of knowledgeEmerging AI infrastructures do not only detect patterns in data. They also produce new objects of knowledge and intervention through texts\, summaries\, explanations\, simulations\, and other outputs. In scientific and institutional settings\, these systems can shape the very objects and descriptions through which the world is understood. This raises broader questions about what AI brings into being in data-intensive Nordic societies. \nClassification and valuationWhen computational systems enter knowledge-making and institutional practice\, the boundaries of categories begin to shift. People\, groups\, and objects may be ranked\, scored\, grouped\, and made visible in new ways\, creating new hierarchies and forms of valuation. By producing classifications\, recommendations\, summaries\, and evaluations in natural language\, these systems may further stabilize and intensify such processes. The workshop therefore asks how AI reshapes both what is classified and valued\, and how this is done. \nKnowledge practices and institutionsAs AI becomes embedded across organizations and institutions\, it changes how knowledge is produced\, validated\, and circulated. Systems that analyze data\, draft reports\, respond to citizens\, or assist professional reasoning affect how expertise is organized and articulated in practice. In this way\, AI enters the communicative and epistemic core of institutions rather than remaining a peripheral technical tool. This opens up broader questions about how societies come to know themselves and the world through computational infrastructures. \nWorkshop focus\nDrawing on Science and Technology Studies and Organization Studies\, this workshop brings together researchers across the Nordic countries to examine what predictive and generative AI are actually doing to institutions\, knowledge practices\, professional work\, state–citizen relations\, and collective futures. We are particularly interested in empirically grounded work dealing with knowledge making practices in diverse domains. Empirical examples may include policing\, welfare services\, healthcare\, education\, and science. Rather than treating AI as a stable or finished technological object\, the workshop asks how these systems are enacted in practice and what this implies for how we can theorize AI in society. \nOrganizers\nProf. Francis Lee\, Södertorn UniversityProf. Helene Friis Ratner\, Technical University of Denmark \nFunded by WASH-SH\, Algorithms\, Data & Democracy Project (ADD) – VELUX Foundations.
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/workshop-theorizing-ai-and-society-in-the-nordics/
LOCATION:Sandhamn\, Stockholm\, Sandhamn\, 130 39 Sandön\, Stockholm\, Sweden
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SUMMARY:WASP-HS & DDLS: Interdisciplinary Workshop
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URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/wasp-hs-ddls-interdisciplinary-workshop/
LOCATION:Sigtunastiftelsen\, Manfred Björkquists allé 4\, Sigtuna\, 193 31
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SUMMARY:AI for Humanity and Society 2026
DESCRIPTION:About\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Keynotes\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Program\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Registration\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				More\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Robots and Autonomous Systems in Everyday Life\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				How can we live amidst and with robots? How do they impact human work and our understanding of social relationships and societal values? Complex organizational work is needed to make robot fleets run smoothly and bring forward societal concerns about care\, safety and responsibility. Join the WASP-HS conference AI for Humanity and Society 2026 themed “Robots and Autonomous Systems in Everyday Life”.  \nRobots and autonomous systems have left the laboratories and are now entering homes\, schools\, hospitals and public spaces. They are becoming part of everyday life. Being a material and mobile manifestation of artificial intelligence\, robots raise new questions about autonomy and agency in relationships with individuals. \nThis year’s conference\, Robots and Autonomous Systems in Everyday Life\, will explore how individuals\, organizations\, and societies are impacted when robots enter our daily life\, shedding light on how humans work to make autonomous systems at home in the world. WASP-HS welcomes researchers\, industry leaders\, policymakers\, and civil society to come together to make sense of emerging developments and to discuss agendas for humane futures with autonomous systems and AI. Through panels\, keynotes and an interactive reception\, we will engage with topics such as coordination and interaction with robots as a form of embodied AI\, robots in education\, regulatory and policy issues related to autonomous systems\, as well as the roles robots and autonomous systems may play in care and crisis. \nThe WASP-HS AI for Humanity and Society 2026 conference fosters human-centered perspectives on robots and autonomous systems\, offering a space to examine emerging challenges and to jointly imagine possible futures — where robots and autonomous systems can foster human relationships\, contribute to inclusive public spaces\, and stimulate meaningful work. We warmly welcome you to join us in Linköping at Mjärdevi Science Park (Teknikringen 7) on November 10–11\, 2026. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Keynotes\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Steve Benford\n					\n					Dunford Professor of Computer Science\, University of Nottingham And UKRI Turing AI World Leading Research Fellow \n					\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Janet Vertesi\n					\n					Associate Professor\, Princeton University and Associate Director of the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education \n					\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Preliminary Conference Program\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Tuesday\, November 10\n12:00 Registration opens \n13:00–13:15 Welcome and introduction \n13:15–14:00 Panel 1: Coordinating Human and Robot Bodies \n14:15–15:00 Panel 2: Educational Robots and AI \n15:00–15:30 Coffee Break \n15:30–16:15 Opening Keynote: Steve Benford \n16:30–18:30 Interactive Reception \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Wednesday\, November 11\n08:30 Registration opens \n09:00–9:15 Welcome and Opening \n09:15–10:00 Panel 3: Policy and Regulation of Robots \n10:00–10:15 Coffee Break \n10:30–11.15 Panel 4: Robots and AI in Care and Crisis \n11:15-12:00 Closing Keynote: Janet Vertesi \n12:00-12:15 Closing and announcement of 2027 conference \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Registration\nRegistration opens September 8. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Conference Chairs\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Hannah Pelikan\n					\n					Assistant Professor at Linköping University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. \n					\n				\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					Airi Lampinen\n					\n					Associate Professor in Human–Computer Interaction at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University.
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/ai-for-humanity-and-society-2026/
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