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The final workshop on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 7 May, 2021 and focus on the histories of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and cybernetics in the Communist Bloc, with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia and Poland.
VisitThe second online event in a series of workshops on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 15 January 2021 and focus on the representations of intelligent machines in Eastern European SF, with a particular focus on the works of Karel Čapek and Stanisław Lem.
VisitThe first online event in a series of workshops on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place at 4PM Prague time, 3PM London time.
VisitThe first AI Narratives workshop topic: Golem of Prague – a mythical clay creature, created in the 16th century by Rabbi Loew to defend the local Jewish community from antisemitic attacks – and its relation to contemporary AI.
VisitThe Security Sector Symposium is a new collaborative effort among Charles University, the University of Glasgow, Dublin City University, the University of Trento, and OTH Regensburg. The Symposium brings together Security Studies students and professionals to foster the students’ career development. The event aims to furnish the student participants with experience and practical knowledge so as to facilitate their successful joining of the security industry.
VisitHow can we as a programme and as organisations, respectively, continue to better train students today in the requirements of security, including developing their skills, knowledge and experience, as well as provide better links between academia and industry.
VisitWe are now said to be in the “fourth industrial revolution”, the era of smart phones, big data, the internet of things, robotics and Artificial Intelligence, whereas when she began untangling the relationship between gender and technology, her main research preoccupation was how the microelectronic revolution would affect women. Then, as now, there were claims that new technologies would fundamentally transform gender relations – with either utopian or dystopian futures envisaged. Will digitalization lead to new forms of exclusion, as well as new opportunities for women? The masterclass will take stock of what we can learn from the earlier analysis of the gender relations of technoscience and its relevance for today.
VisitThere is a widespread assumption that digital technologies are radically altering our perception of time: that we live too fast, that time is scarce and that the pace of everyday life is accelerating beyond our control. The iconic image that abounds is that of the frenetic, technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted citizen. Paradoxically, digital devices are seen as both the cause of time pressure as well as the solution. This talk will argue that while there is no temporal logic inherent in technologies, artifacts do play a central role in the constitution of time regimes. We make time with machines. I will illustrate this argument by exploring the vision of ‘intelligent’ time management that drives the design of digital calendars. Drawing on interviews with software engineers, I will argue that the shift from print to electronic calendars embodies a longstanding belief that technology can be profitably employed to control and manage time. This belief continues to animate contemporary sociotechnical imaginaries of what automation will deliver. In the current moment, calendars are increasingly conceived of as digital assistants whose behavioural algorithms can solve life’s existential problem – how best to organise the time of our lives. In sum, the aim here is to contribute to science & technology studies (STS) scholarship on the role of technology in shaping people’s experience of time.
VisitCzech Republic will soon celebrate a 30-year anniversary of the end of the communist regime. While it entered NATO ten years later, another two decades on questions are being raised about its commitment to liberal democratic values. The lecture will argue that, while its Euro-Atlantic anchoring remains strong, recent developments have led to increased confusion over the desired course of action. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. Tomáš Karásek at the Centre for International and Defence Policy, a research unit in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University.
VisitPERICULUM-organised International Conference "AI: Rethinking the World" was held in Prague on 1 March 2019.
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