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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Dear SIGCIS Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Please see the below open call for a Summer School associated with the Cambridge University Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar “</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai"><span style="color:#1155CC">Histories
of AI: A Genealogy of Power</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">organized by Richard Staley, Sarah Dillon, Jonnie Penn, Mustafa Ali, Matt Jones, and myself). The Summer School will be July
12 – 18, 2020 at Cambridge. Some travel and accommodation funding will be available.
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Ruha Benjamin</span></a></span></i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">,
<i><a href="https://www.sfu.ca/communication/team/faculty/wendy-chun.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">Wendy Chun</span></a></i>,
<i><a href="https://blog.ulisesmejias.com/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Ulises A. Mejias</span></a></i>, and
<i><a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/people/kalindi-vora"><span style="color:#1155CC">Kalindi Vora</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">All my best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:ArialMT">WHAT: 2020 Summer School on the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai"><span style="color:#1155CC">Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(A
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<span style="font-family:ArialMT">WHEN: 12</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><sup><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:ArialMT"> </span></sup></span><span style="font-family:ArialMT">-18 July 2020 </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:ArialMT">WHERE: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:ArialMT">OTHER: Travel and accommodation funding available. Closing date 16 March.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">The University of Cambridge is hosting a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power from May 2020-April 2021. The Seminar is co-hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science, and the Faculty of English. Sawyer Seminars support comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. This Seminar aims to develop an international interpretive community capable of offering a structural, historical
perspective on the promises and problematics of AI and machine learning. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">This new community will include participants from a variety of fields and backgrounds including activists, AI practitioners, artists, citizens, critical theorists, decolonial scholars, historians of science
and technology, and scholars of race, gender, and disability studies. We will engage in critical and comparative research, from antiquity to the present, on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments in AI technologies to investigate
their entanglement in systems of politics, power and control. Four themes will guide our considerations: hidden labour, encoded behaviour, cognitive injustice and disingenuous rhetoric. These themes direct our inquiry without narrowing the contributions we
plan to support.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">Full details of the Seminar, including its intellectual aims and rationale, are available<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:#1155CC"><a href="https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai">here</a>.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">The Seminar’s activities include a week long<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Summer School</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>at Homerton College, Cambridge, for 30 participants,
with arrival and a welcome dinner on Sunday 12 and meeting from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 July 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">We are opening applications to participate in the Summer School. Accommodation and subsistence is provided for all participants from Sunday 12 to Saturday 18 July inclusive. Participants in full-time employment
would ordinarily be expected to cover their own travel costs, although some stipends are available on a needs basis. Travel bursaries will be available to a small number of UK and international students.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">Each day of the Summer School will include a variety of sessions including a workshop on participant research comprising short papers and discussion, seminars on core literature selected from across historical
periods and/or critical theories, a keynote lecture, and a focused session on relevant disciplinary theories and methods. We aim to foster the intellectual development of research in this field, creating a cross-disciplinary toolkit that engages the histories
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT">Applying to participate will involve indicating the relevance of your research to the aims of the Seminar, and offering practical suggestions of how you might contribute to the Summer School's activities,
for instance by delivering a short paper, leading a core text seminar, offering relevant theories and or methods training, or other suggested contributions or activities. You will find this call for participants on our website,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai/activities/summer-school">here</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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