U-M ESC - Ethics, Society and Computing

ESC Curious?🔍
Join us for a UM Faculty & Graduate Student Mixer at the York next Wednesday (5/25) from 5-7:30pm!🎉
RSVP by 5/23, details here: https://esc.umich.edu/event/esc-pod-a-faculty-graduate-student-mixer/

Happening TOMORROW, 11am ET! ⏰🗓📙
There's still time to register for ESC affiliated faculty Jerry Davis's ICGS webinar on his new book "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (out now). Details and registration link below ⬇

Happening 4/1 @ 2:00pm CEST/ 8:00am EST🗓
ESC affiliated faculty Oliver Haimson speaks on a virtual panel: "To count as human: Gender-based inclusion and exclusion in digital technologies."
Event details and registration:

To count as human. Gender-based inclusion and exclusion in digital technologies An international online-symposium on gender inclusion and exclusion through technology in our digital society.

Happening 3/24 @ 4pm EST🗓
ESC affiliated faculty Matthew Bui speaks (virtually) at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library. Details below⬇

Happening 3/23 @ 1:00pm (EDT)🗓
Learn about ESC affiliated faculty Jerry Davis's new book, Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century, forthcoming in April!
Details and Registration:

GGS ASI Research Café and Telfer Research Seminar Series - Jerry Davis Taming corporate power in the 21st century

Save the Date!🗓️ The "Social Media Influencers and the New Political Economy in South Asia and Africa" Symposium is happening April 7-8, in person and online.
Sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican & African Studies, the Center for South Asian Studies, the School of Information, and ESC.
Event details and registration:

joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu Social media influencer activity on platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn are now pivotal to social influence in societies around the world, as the ecology of the public sphere gets increasingly crafted, amplified, or negated by what happens online. This is as...

ESC is one of the cosponsors of next Monday's STPP panel!
Register now at: https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/cultivating-socially-responsible-engineers

Feb 21 @ 4pm EST: MIDAS Seminar Series & ESC co-present Virginia Dignum, Umeå University.
Details here: https://esc.umich.edu/event/virginia-dignum-responsible-ai-from-principles-to-action/

TOMORROW at 4pm: ESC Faculty Irina Aristarkhova gives an Ethics & Techfutures Series lecture at Georgia Tech. Her talk examines the Russian-founded platform Telegram's appropriation by Belarusian activists.
Virtual, register here: tinyurl.com/2p8kpmph

Google's People + AI Research (PAIR) interviews ESC Faculty and PAIR Visiting Research Scientist Robin Brewer about disability justice approaches to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence:

Q&A: Robin Brewer on Machine Learning & Disabilities Opinions in PAIR Q&As are those of the interviewees, and not necessarily those of Google. In the spirit of participatory ML research, we…

Feb 10 @ 11:00am EST
Learn more about working with natural history data from ESC faculty Andrea Thomer!
Register at: https://www.dublincore.org/news/2022/10-08_webinar-natural-history-data-curation/

ESC faculty and graduate students from the SPILab are helping you get ready for tomorrow's Data Privacy Day!

Workshops January 27 and February 3 @ 5pm (U-M login required).
Event details: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events