From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Tue Feb 11 08:00:00 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Calvin Pollak via Ssnet_list) Date: Tue Feb 11 08:42:08 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Heidi McKee, "GenAI & Writing Across the Curriculum" (2/14 @10am, Odegaard Library 220) Message-ID: Hi everyone, (Apologies for cross-posting.) The Simpson Center research cluster "A Classroom-Centered Inquiry into Generative AI, Large Language Models, and Writing Praxis" is hosting an event this Friday, 2/14 from 10:00am-12:30pm in Odegaard Library 220 with Dr. Heidi McKee, Professor of English at Miami University, entitled GenAI & Writing Across the Curriculum. Dr. McKee's work focuses on professional writing, digital rhetoric, and artificial intelligence. This event will include a lecture by Dr. McKee from 10:00-11:00, a 30-minute coffee and cookies break, and then a teaching workshop from 11:30am-12:30pm. Please RSVP at this link if you are interested in any of these sessions! 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I'm writing to let you know about several upcoming events and opportunities you can join and share with others in our campus communities. [Happening Tomorrow] Pop-Up Working Group on Science, Society, and Justice ? Session 2 (Online) Theme: Collaborating Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | 9:30 ? 10:25 AM (PT) | Online Hosted by: Tim Brown (Bioethics and Humanities) Register Join us for the second session in the three-part Pop-Up Working Group series on Science, Society, and Justice, to collaboratively address questions around funding, language, and more. In the last session, philosopher and host Tim Brown, assistant professor in Bioethics and Humanities at the School of Medicine, observed the sense of urgency among participants concerned with the complex challenges of doing "science communication," or considering how stories/imaginaries about science and technology, and scientific research, are told beyond the disciplines. How might new, additional, or enriched scientific imaginaries be cultivated right now? This working group will take up that line of thinking in relation to the federal changes to grants or funding models regarding DEI-specific terminology and proposed cuts to NIH indirect costs and the impact on our faculty, staff, and students. [Registration Open!] Pop-Up Working Group on Science, Society, and Justice ? Session 3 (Online) Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | 9:30 ? 10:25 AM (PT) | Online | Chatham House Rule Register The third session will focus on Creating, following the collaboration discussions on Feb. 25. The registration link is now open! ? [One Week Away!] | First Monday STSS Reading Group | March 3, 2025 | The Dark Sides of Anthropomorphism (Online) Monday, March 3, 2025 | 10:30 ? 11:20 AM (PT) | Online March Host: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (Computer Science, UW Bothell) Reading: The Dark Side of AI Anthropomorphism: A Case of Misplaced Trustworthiness in Service Provisions (Read the paper ) Our popular reading group on science, technology and society studies (STSS) is discussing a computing paper about how AI anthropomorphism can lead to misplaced trust. About First Monday STSS Co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli, this participant-led monthly reading group fosters an intellectual community for faculty, students, and staff across UW?s campuses and the School of Medicine. We use a rotating host model. Anyone at UW who is STS-curious is welcome! Learn more To join the group, email mmjones@uw.edu for an invitation. ? [Register Now!] | STSS Research Mixer | March 13, 2025 | In-Person Monday, March 13, 2025 | 3:30 ? 5:30 PM (PT) | In-Person Hosts: Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli (Director, STSS, Department of Communication) Come for the in-person research birds-of-a-feather activity and announcements, stay for the snacks, no-host happy hour, and intellectual community. This mixer is for the science, technology, and society studies faculty, staff, and students across all three campuses. Learn more and register ? [Register Now!] | Dr. Evelynn Hammonds: ?The Long Road to Equity in Research? | Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall | UW Seattle Monday, March 17, 2025 | 9:30 AM (PT) We're pleased to share the good news that the Office of Research is welcoming Dr. Evelynn Hammonds for a lecture on the persistent challenges of achieving equity in STEM and higher education. Dr. Hammonds is Harvard University?s Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the T. Chan School of Public Health. Visit the lecture site & register Share this event widely with colleagues, students, and staff. *--* Please do continue to share opportunities with each other. Several of you, UW S+T affiliates, have cross-posted events and programs using the campus shared calendar and that's visible on Society + Technology at UW's calendar as well. Be sure to check it out. Yours, Monika Sengul-Jones on behalf of Society + Technology at UW -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssnet_list at u.washington.edu Thu Feb 27 18:01:15 2025 From: ssnet_list at u.washington.edu (Monika Sengul-Jones via Ssnet_list) Date: Thu Feb 27 19:11:51 2025 Subject: [Ssnet_list] Fwd: "All that you touch, you change" | 'Technology for the People' | Reminders In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Dear STSS/SS network, apologies for cross-posting. A version of this is posted on the Society + Technology at UW listserv. * Hey everyone, Tuesday's Pop-Up Working Group on *Science, Society, and Justice * focused on *collaboration*. Initially, we discussed ?science communication,? discomfort with our present imaginaries. This bled into how, when, where, and to whom, to share stories. And which stories?histories?to share. An enlivening session, thank you to all who attended. In discussing our next steps, host Tim Brown (Bioethics and Humanities) and I debriefed and found ourselves veering deeper into discomfort and turning into fiction. For instance, we?ve both read Octavia Butler?s *Parable of the Sower *and *Parable of the Talents*. If you haven?t read these books, I recommend?they?re tremendous! Written in the 1990s and set in the 2020s, Butler is darkly prescient in writing a story of survival in crisis, where a far-right president who uses the uncanny slogan, "make America great again." Yet, survival isn?t the only theme, hope forms the backbone for Butler?s protagonist, Lauren Olamina, who has hyperempathy syndrome, an imaginary disease of extraordinary feeling that informs her spirituality. "All that you touch, you change," Olamina (Butler) writes. I won't share more (you might like to read the books), but my conversation with Tim spurred me to consider the ways can dis-ease be a gift? The final pop-up session in this important pop-up series is on *Creating*? register to join! -- * 'Technology for the People' - A New Salon Debut on Monday, April 14 from 6 pm - 8 pm* The S+T@UW salon series continues with *Technology for the People *on Monday, April 14 from 6 pm - 8 pm. Join us in Seattle for an evening discussion about empathetic efforts for community engagement and technology. Moderated by *Adrienne Russell *(Communication), the event brings together *Dharma Dailey* (Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell), *Carmen Gonzalez* (Communication, UW Seattle), *Esther Jang *(Computer Science, UW Seattle), and *Divya C. McMillin* (Global Media Studies, UW Tacoma) to discuss efforts around digital equity and information access in the Puget Sound region. *Technology for the People* is co-hosted with the Center for Media, Journalism, and Democracy and sponsored by the Tech Policy Lab, the Department of Communication, and the Office of the Provost. It's free to attend and refreshments will be provided, but registration is required. Learn more and register! -- *'A Spotlight on Rumors?- Recording of Professor Kate Starbird?s UW Faculty Lecture *Earlier this week, Kate Starbird (HCDE), who was on the 2022 Task Force that led to the creation of Society + Technology at UW, gave the 2025 University Faculty Lecture. A recording of her talk is now available . -- *Next Monday! | First Monday STSS Reading Group | March 3, 2025 | The Dark Sides of Anthropomorphism (Online)* *Monday, March 3, 2025* | *10:30 ? 11:20 AM (PT)* | *Online March* *Host:* Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (Computer Science, UW Bothell) * Reading:* *The Dark Side of AI Anthropomorphism: A Case of Misplaced Trustworthiness in Service Provisions* (Read the paper ) Our popular reading group on science, technology and society studies (STSS) is discussing a computing paper about how AI anthropomorphism can lead to misplaced trust. *About First Monday STSS* Co-facilitated by Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli, this participant-led monthly reading group fosters an intellectual community for faculty, students, and staff across UW?s campuses and the School of Medicine. We use a rotating host model. Anyone at UW who is STS-curious is welcome! Learn more To join the group, email mmjones@uw.edu for an invitation. -- *[Register Now!] | STSS Research Mixer | March 13, 2025 | In-Person* *Monday, March 13, 2025* | *3:30 ? 5:30 PM (PT)* | *In-Person Hosts:* Monika Sengul-Jones and Leah Ceccarelli (Director, STSS, Department of Communication) Come for the in-person research birds-of-a-feather activity and announcements, stay for the snacks, no-host happy hour, and intellectual community. This mixer is for the science, technology, and society studies faculty, staff, and students across all three campuses. *Learn more and register* ? *[Register Now!] | Dr. Evelynn Hammonds: ?The Long Road to Equity in Research? | Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall | UW Seattle* *Monday, March 17, 2025* | *9:30 AM (PT)* We're pleased to share the good news that the Office of Research is welcoming *Dr. Evelynn Hammonds* for a lecture on the persistent challenges of achieving equity in STEM and higher education. Dr. Hammonds is Harvard University?s Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science, Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the T. Chan School of Public Health. *Visit the lecture site & register* Share this event widely with colleagues, students, and staff. -- So many updates for you, and I'll end with saying this. Hope everyone is hanging in there. Yours, Monika Sengul-Jones on behalf of *Society + Technology at UW* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: