BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WASP-HS - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WASP-HS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wasp-hs.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WASP-HS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Stockholm BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20280326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20281029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260306T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260306T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T090112 CREATED:20260306T121125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T152317Z UID:21401-1772784000-1772816400@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:PhD Defence: Figuring the Boundary Between Human and Robot DESCRIPTION: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. \nSee event page. \nAbstract\nSocial robots are expected to become ubiquitous across different areas  of both the private and public spheres of human life\, assisting in care\, education\, and daily tasks. Hopes for meaningful\, efficient\, and enjoyable interactions with these kinds of robots drive social robotics research\, but there are also ethical concerns and critiques concerning negative social consequences. Both sides involve assumptions about the boundaries around what it means to be human in relation to the non-human. In order to disentangle optimistic and pessimistic notions about this relationality\, there needs to be a reconsideration of how the boundaries constituting the human/non-human divide are understood and figured in encounters with robot bodies. Following Dominika Lisy’s personal experiences that have been documented as reflections\, diary entries\, and by photographing moments of meeting different social robots\, this thesis starts at the first point of contact: the skin. \nBut how might the skin be used to rethink boundaries between humans and social robots? The research in this thesis illustrates an interdisciplinary endeavour to weave together insights from feminist theory and methodology\, research on affective and tactile robots\, and the biology and neurophysiology of the skin. Grounded in feminist new materialism\, which embraces the entanglement of matter and discourse\, the thesis develops a figuration of the skin through which both the form and content of the thesis’ text illustrate what it means to pay attention to boundaries during encounters with affective and tactile robots. Figuring boundaries in this way\, they can be described as multilayered\, flexible yet sturdy\, hardening over time\, and dependent on un/noticeable sensations\, just like the skin. This thesis aims to contribute to feminist theories of human/non-human relationality. \nThe thesis presents a situated feminist account of making sense amidst diverse knowledges through the skin and personal embodied experiences in order to develop a sensitivity and ethical responsibility for human–robot relations. \nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\nKatherine Harrison\, PhD at Linköping UniversityHarald Wiltsche\, Professor at Linköping University \nOpponent\nMaaike Bleeker\, Professor at Utrecht University URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defence-figuring-the-boundary-between-human-and-robot/ CATEGORIES:PhD Defence,PhD Defense ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dominika_Lisy_PhD_Defense.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260313T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20270117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T090112 CREATED:20260326T082053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T093002Z UID:21862-1773388800-1800205200@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:AI and The Paradox of Agency DESCRIPTION:Who holds the power when AI enters our lives? AI and the Paradox of Agency is curated by Sarah Cook\, WASP-HS Guest Professor\, and Museum Director Katarina Pierre\, and features new commissions by international artists\, from interactive games and immersive installations to sculptures and a drone-read hand-painted textile. \nThe exhibition is open between 13 March\, 2026 and 17 January 2027. \nArtists: boredomresearch\, Tega Brain\, Dennis Delgado\, Linda Dounia Rebeiz\, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg\, Nicolas Gourault\, Zeno Gries\, Lawrence Lek\, Rachel Maclean\, Stephen Marche\, Lauren Lee McCarthy\, Florian Model\, Yuri Pattison\, Planetary Portals\, Raqs Media Collective\, Daniel Shanken\, Caroline Sinders & Romy Gad el Rab\, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado\, and Addie Wagenknecht. Curators: Sarah Cook and Katarina Pierre. \nAI and the Paradox of Agency is produced by Bildmuseet at Umeå University with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation and WASP-HS (Wallenberg AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society). \n \n Read more URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/ai-and-the-paradox-of-agency/ LOCATION:Bildmuseet ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AI-and-the-Paradox-of-Agency.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260324T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20260324T111500 DTSTAMP:20260416T090112 CREATED:20260303T092553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T092713Z UID:20960-1774346400-1774350900@wasp-hs.org SUMMARY:Girls Sc(AI)ence 7: Conversations on How AI is Eroding Human Rights (And What Can We Do About It) DESCRIPTION:Creating a Research Network to Foster Women’s Participation in Technoscience\n \n \n \n \n \n Please note that this event is independently organized by a WASP-HS researcher and not the WASP-HS Program Office. \n \n \n \n \n \n Topic:Conversations on how AI is eroding human rights (and what can we do about it)Invited speaker: Sue Ann Teo\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Faculty of Law\, Lund University \nWhen: March 24th\, 10.00  to 11:15Where: hybrid – link by registration– On site:  at LUX B:339\, Department of Philosophy\, Lux\, Helgonavägen 3 Lund– Online on zoom \n \n Read more URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/girls-scaience-7-conversations-on-how-ai-is-eroding-human-rights-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wasp-hs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Girrtl-Calendars.png.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR