[Air-L] Symposium Social Justice and Tech Futures Germany

[Schelenz, Laura]

📢 Save the date! 2 & 3 May in Tübingen, Germany! We are hosting a symposium on "Social Justice and Technological Futures" in person at the University of Tübingen and it will be amazing!

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We are bringing together the brightest minds who are at the same time truly dedicated to social justice and creating a better future with (or without) technology! Speakers are among others: Lecia Brooks, Christopher Lafayette, Fereshteh Forough, Sheena E., Koliwe Majama, Sofía Scasserra, Ivana Feldfeber. There are many more: www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future<http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future>

Registration is free! You can register to attend the conference with me via email at laura.schelenz at uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:laura.schelenz at uni-tuebingen.de>.

“Social justice theories are crucial instruments to meet the challenges of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. These challenges include algorithmic bias and discrimination, profit-driven innovation, and technology imaginaries around convenience, optimization, and neutrality. The works of Black feminists and critical race theorists as well as decolonial and Global South scholars and activists render visible the interlockings of societal, economic, cultural, and political injustice in the design, production, and distribution of technology. In thinking about the future and its daunting challenges, including the transformation of work, climate change, migration, and overall precarity, what should be the role of technology? What do technological futures look like from a social justice perspective?

The Tübingen Symposium will bring together critiques of unsettling trajectories as well as visions for alternative pathways. We will question the canonical values in technology creation – scale, efficiency, and (big) data aggregation – while also exploring diverse and potentially competing social justice concepts. The Tübingen Symposium will give invited speakers the opportunity to connect and share views on the topics of the symposium. The audience will benefit from interactive panels including discussions of case studies of harmful contemporary or visionary alternative technologies. The topics cover science fiction, Afrofuturism, tech governance, policy and regulation, design approaches for social justice, digital activism, responsible research and innovation, decolonial approaches to technology development, and more!”

Laura Schelenz
Researcher

International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
University of Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 19
72074 Tübingen
Germany