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Dear Colleagues, </div><div style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This message is to inform you of the first session in the
2024-2025 academic year of the
<a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/" id="m_6282257143134577142m_-3963235421271775403m_2484744536099780821LPlnk429739" title="https://sohistinfo.github.io/" target="_blank">
Socio-History of Informatics seminar</a>, a research seminar
organized at the <a href="https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht2s--913760.kjsp" id="m_6282257143134577142m_-3963235421271775403m_2484744536099780821LPlnk865258" title="https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht2s--913760.kjsp" target="_blank">
HT2S research center of the Conservatoire National des Arts et
Métiers in Paris</a>. The goal of this seminar is to explore
new narratives in the long-term history of computing, with a
focus on how computing intertwines with social, economic,
political, and cultural issues. Every two months, we will invite
a researcher in history and/or anthropology and sociology (with
a historical or diachronic perspective) of computing to present
their work. Website link : <a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/" target="_blank">https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/</a></div>
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The first session will take place online and at CNAM in Paris on
Monday, October 14, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM with Ksenia
Ermoshina (Centre Internet et Société, CNRS) -
<b>A "Sovereign Intelligence"? Infrastructures, Representations,
and Geopolitics of Russian AI: A Comparative Approach</b>.</div>
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Registration form: <a href="https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317" id="m_6282257143134577142m_-3963235421271775403m_2484744536099780821OWA59b66296-c3ff-06bf-5762-0235b4fb423c" rel="noopener" target="_blank">
https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317</a></div>
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<b>Summary of the presentation:</b> <i>As part of the ANR
CulturIA project, this investigation focuses on the
contemporary history of artificial intelligence and its
socio-cultural aspects, particularly within the
Russian-speaking world and its international relations. Marked
by the war against Ukraine and economic sanctions, the field
has undergone a restructuring both in terms of infrastructure
and in terms of discourse and representations. The collective
research, conducted in collaboration with Boris Melnichenko,
follows Russians who create or use AI in exile as well as
engineers working for large companies in Russia. In line with
the spirit of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it remains
attentive to code and infrastructure and describes the
significant restructurings of technological projects in the
context of a major geopolitical crisis. By comparing Russian
machine learning and AI projects with similar initiatives from
the United States and China, this research asks: can we speak
of a “Russian AI”? Are there distinctive characteristics that
define the ways of developing and discussing AI specific to
Russia, despite the inevitable borrowing, influences, and
transnational exchanges that shape this field?</i></div>
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<b>Future sessions:</b></div>
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December 16, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Barbara Hof -
University of Lausanne</li>
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February 10, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Cédric Neumann -
CNAM, HT2S</li>
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April 1, 2025 - Marie-José Durand-Richard - CNRS-Paris 7 Denis
Diderot, SPHERE</li>
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April 14, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Jaroslav Švelch -
Charles University (Prague)</li>
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June 16, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Michael Homberg -
University of Cologne</li>
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The summary of each presentation will be communicated later.</div>
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Each session will be held in a hybrid format at the
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003
Paris, in room 30-1-18 (Building 30, 1st basement level, Room
18). To facilitate the organization of the sessions, please
register via this form:
<a href="https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317" id="m_6282257143134577142m_-3963235421271775403m_2484744536099780821OWA02a2375b-cab2-d90d-625e-0fc45acbc5d7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">
https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317</a>
A connection link (Big Blue Button) will be sent after
registration to allow remote participation in each session.</div>
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This research seminar will focus on the history of computing not
for its own sake within the well-defined framework of the
omnipotent computer and its pervasive environments, but through
the study of situations where computing plays a pivotal role in
the articulation of science-technology-society relations. In
this way, the seminar aims to shed light on a socio-history of
computing over the long term and in spaces expanded
geographically as well as socially, culturally, politically, and
economically. You can find a more detailed presentation of our
approach (with the program of planned sessions) on the seminar
website:
<a href="https://sohistinfo.github.io/" id="m_6282257143134577142m_-3963235421271775403m_2484744536099780821OWA7288feb4-015b-3d7a-d374-caecd791883d" rel="noopener" target="_blank">
https://sohistinfo.github.io/</a></div>
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Looking forward to seeing you there. Best regards,<br>
Mathilde Fichen (PhD student, HT2S), Adrien Tournier (PhD
student, HT2S), and Camille Paloque-Bergès (Researcher, HT2S)
for the seminar organization.</div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:x-small">Institutional email address : <a href="mailto:camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">camille.paloque_berges@cnam.fr</a></span><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">*Laboratory for the History of Techno-Sciences (HT2S), </span><span style="font-size:x-small;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>