Dear colleagues,
<br>
<br>We kindly invite you to the Tema T Exchange 2018:
<br>
<br>Meaningful Human Control: the social sciences of automated weapon systems
<br>Professor Lucy Suchman
<br>
<br>Wednesday October 31st 2018 1.15-3.00pm, followed by a Reception.
<br>Universitetsklubben, Linkping University
<br>
<br>
<br>The Tema T Exchange is a high profile public event, held annually to address
<br>issues of public concern. We invite scholars of international renown to lead
<br>us in debate. Past years have featured Don Ihde, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and
<br>Annemarie Mol https://liu.se/en/research/tema-t-exchange.The occasion is
<br>designed to maximise productive exchange and debate, by asking our invitee not
<br>to give a set public lecture, but instead to respond to a series of questions
<br>and comments submitted by a panel of colleagues.
<br>The increased use of automated weapon systems has become an issue of
<br>considerable public unease. The question of their "meaningful human control"
<br>is debated at the UN. Many aspects of our own local and national context are
<br>germane: Sweden is militarily neutral yet has a thriving arms export industry;
<br>Linkping is home to Saab the weapons manufacturer; and there are enduring
<br>issues in a largely technoscience university like Linkping as to the role and
<br>importance of social sciences and humanities. So it is especially appropriate
<br>that we ask how social sciences can inform our understanding of automated
<br>weapon systems.
<br>
<br>To discuss these issues we are delighted to welcome Professor Lucy Suchman
<br>(Lancaster University) as our distinguished guest for the Tema T Exchange
<br>2018.
<br>
<br>Lucy is an internationally renowned scholar, working within the field of
<br>feminist science and technology studies, focused on technological imaginaries
<br>and the material practices of technology design, particularly developments at
<br>the interface of bodies and machines. It is this longstanding critical
<br>engagement with the field of human-computer interaction that she has recently
<br>extended to contemporary warfighting. She was a leading figure in the recent
<br>campaign against Google providing AI support to a US military programme aimed
<br>at automating the analysis of images from drone surveillance footage [see Op
<br>Ed piece in the
<br>Guardian ]
<br>
<br>All Welcome
<br>For information: steve.woolgar@liu.se
<br>
<br>All best,
<br>Else Vogel
<br>Postdoctoral researcher
<br>
<br>[Linkping University]
<br>
<br>Department of Thematic Studies, Technology and Social Change
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