Message posted on 18/10/2018
October 31st Tema T exchange with Lucy Suchman
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 <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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