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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
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SUMMARY:Summer School 2026 — Algorithmic Power and Discourse: AI\, Politics\, and the Production of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Mattias Pettersson \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Welcome 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\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Monday\, 17 August\n11:00 Registration on site opens \n13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and introductionHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n13:15 – 14:00 Introduction to Critical AI StudiesSimon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n14:00 – 15:00 Working GroupsSimon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219 \n15:00 – 15:15 CoffeeD-corridor \n15:15 – 16:00 Discourse Machines: Power and Knowledge in the Age of Large Language ModelsSimon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n17:00 Exhibition Tour: AI and the Paradox of AgencyBildmuseet \n18:00- Mingle and finger food Bygden restaurant (adjacent to Bildmuseet) \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Tuesday\, 18 August\n08:45 – 09:45 Critical Legal Perspectives on AI – An IntroductionMarkus NaarttijärviHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n09:45 – 10:45 AI and EU Law – Between Data Protection and the AI ActLena EnqvistHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n10:45 – 11:00 CoffeeD-Corridor \n11:00 – 12:00 Regulating Speech – Moderating AI and AI in ModerationTherese EnarssonHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n12:00 – 13:00 LunchD-Corridor \n13:00 – 15:00 Workshop/Roundtable – Legal Perspectives on Your Research ProjectsHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219 \n15:00 – Activities for PhD students arranged by the PhD student council:  \nRendez-vous 15:30 at Rådhustorget in central Umeå! \n  \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 Wednesday\, 19 August\n08:45 – 10:45 Learning to do research with AI: rethinking academic practices and doctoral trainingKatherine HarrisonHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n10:45 – 11:00 CoffeeD-corridor \n11:00 – 12:00 Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary ResearchKarin DanielssonHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n12:00 – 13:00 LunchD-corridor \n13:00 – 13:30 Casting a Queer Eye on AI: Background\, Actions and Queer FuturesEvelina LiliequistHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n13:30 – 15:00 Resisting Bodies in AI: Queer and Decolonial Perspectives                    Onur Kilic                                         HUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n15:00 Coffee \n15:15 – 17:00 Tour of Humlab and Workshop: Applying a Queer Perspective on Motion Capture\, Bodies and AI                    Humanities Lab \n17:30 – 18:30 Pool\, shuffle board and darts at Orangeriet\, Kungsgatan 71 \n19:00 Dinner at Orangeriet\, Kungsgatan 71 \n  \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Thursday\, 20 August\n08:45 – 09:45 Language\, Memory\, and the Politics of GenAIMoa Eriksson Krutök and Samuel MerrillHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n09:45 – 10:45 Workshop: ChatBots and Memory Part 1Samuel Merrill\, Ruijin Shi\, Simon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n10:45 – 11:00 CoffeeD-corridor \n11:00 – 12:00 Workshop: ChatBots and Memory Part 2Samuel Merrill\, Ruijin Shi\, Simon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n12:00 – 13:00 LunchD-Corridor \n13:00 – 14:00 LLMs As an Objective Measureement Tool – What Would Marx Say?Matti NelimarkkaHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n14:00 – 15:00 Workshop: Doing Social Analysis with the Marxist LLMHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219 \n15:00 – 15:15 CoffeeD-corridor \n15:15 – 16:15 Workshop: Doing Social Analysis with the Marxist LLMMatti NelimarkkaHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219 \n16:15 – 17:15 WASP-HS Student CouncilHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Friday\, 21 August\n08:45 – 10:45 Final Group WorkSimon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219 \n10:45 – 11:00 CoffeeD-corridor \n11:00 – 12:00 PresentationsSimon LindgrenHUM.D.210 – Hummelhonung\, HUM.F.200\, HUM.F.214\, HUM.G.211\, HUM.G.217\, HUM.G219\, Vardagsrummet \n12:00 Lunch: Grab a wrap! \nIf you’re on your way to the train or airport\, grab a wrap and a bottle of water before you go. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Registration\nRegistration is closed. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				AI\, 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/
CATEGORIES:Summer School
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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:Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations — PhD Defense
DESCRIPTION:On 28 August 2026\, Rachael Garrett defends her doctoral thesis\, “Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations“\, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. \nSee event. \nAbstract\nSomatic freedoms are ethical commitments to bodies as whole\, living and corporeal subjectivities within processes of research and design. They view ethical sensibilities as grounded in our bodies and felt experiences\, and intimately shaped by our interpersonal\, socio-cultural\, and political relations. This position argues that embodied ethical knowledge is implicit in many aspects of research and design practice\, as well as our interactions with machines. I explore felt experiences of ethics across three multidisciplinary art and design collaborations: (i) Robots\, Dance\, Different Bodies\, (ii) Embrace Angels\, and (iii) How to Train Your Drone. Across these projects\, I investigate how misalignments between ethical sensibilities can invite deeper modes of allyship; how frictions between sensibilities can be engaged to forge bridges between interdisciplinary practitioners; how sensibilities are practiced within human-machine interactions; and how we might design machines that can support bodies in uncovering potential pathways to ethical transformation. \nAcross these projects\, I chart the development of somatic freedoms as ethical commitments to bodies and the vibrant\, material and corporeal pursuit of change and transformation. These are commitments to creating conditions in which transformation is supported\, enhancing the possibilities available to bodies to achieve change\, facilitating the processes through which bodies transform their relations with the world\, and by extension\, change how they are constituted within those relations. My papers demonstrate processes of human-machine ethical reconfiguration: the ongoing reorganisation of relations between bodies and machines through which ethical transformation can be realised. These processes require traversing the boundaries of our bodies within our relational engagements with the world around us\, experiencing ourselves as subjects who move but also objects that are moved within those encounters. This is a process by which bodies can engage in the work of ethics\, seek out better ways of relating to each other\, meet new ethical challenges\, and move towards conditions of flourishing. \nSee full thesis. \nSupervisors\n– Professor Kristina Höök\, Media Technology and Interaction Design; KTH– Professor Airi Lampinen\, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences\, Stockholm University \nOpponent\n– Associate Professor\, Docent Katherine Harrison\, Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA)\, Linköping University
URL:https://wasp-hs.org/event3/phd-defense-somatic-freedoms-reconfiguring-human-machine-ethical-relations/
LOCATION:F3 (Flodis)\, Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28\, Stockholm
CATEGORIES:PhD Defense
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