Hugely looking forward to Anthony Downey's talk at Cambridge University Future Intelligence CRASSH, Cambridge this Friday, 3 May, 4-5:30pm UK time. All very welcome. The talk will be followed by a reception. (You can also attend remotely via Zoom). Sign up below:

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Coming up THIS FRIDAY. In person and online tickets are still still available:

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Just over a week left to submit CFPs to Fantastic Futures (15-18 October 2024, Canberra). A conference focused on Artificial Intelligence, for Libraries, Archives, Museums & Galleries. Details and submission form: nfsa.gov.au/fantastic-futu…
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The latest issue of '9 West Road', news from the Faculty of English, Cambridge, is now available english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/…

New in Cultural Politics: Beryl Pong on the visualization of humanitarian events through drone technology. read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-polit…

Next Friday! Register now. This hybrid talk will be followed by an in-person reception with light refreshment

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Don't forget to register for the Drones and Culture event: The Future of Death in an Algorithmic Age on the 3rd of May - you can attend online and in person to hear Prof. Anthony Downey discuss the use of AI in Drone warfare! Centre for Drones and Culture
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New short piece by Beryl Pong & Amy Gaeta on our work and recent symposium on hybrid warfare that we co-hosted with the Imperial War Museums. Thanks to Faculty of English for publishing this!

See page 4, and check out the rest of the newsletter :)

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Congrats to our PI on a new article!

Congrats to our PI on a new article!

New article out 🥳 'The 'Politics of the Faceless'' considers the martial & security regimes of the aerial view in humanitarian #drone journalism, & the 'affective economies' (Feminist Killjoy) of drone aesthetics in visualizing forced migration. Duke University Press

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Digital humanists interested in becoming a visiting fellow or visiting student at Cambridge Digital Humanities between October 2024 and March 2025 must apply by THIS Sunday, 21 April.

Start your application today by following the link below ✅
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Tickets are going fast for our upcoming hybrid event on May 3rd! Grab your in-person or online ticket today!

An in-person reception will follow the talk.

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CRASSH, Cambridge Cambridge Digital Humanities Future Intelligence UK Research and Innovation Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Cambridge Visual Culture Politics and International Studies Cambridge

'AI and the Future of (Media) History' -- Full text of my keynote from 'Questioning History in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' (UC Berkeley, April 11, 2024) blog.shanedenson.com/?p=5835

For background on military use of biotechnology and human enhancement see our report 'Cyborg Dawn?' or watch video of our joint webinar on issue with Scientists for Global Responsibility
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Delighted to see another essay from the Special Issue of Culture, Theory and Critique that Amy Gaeta and I are editing on Militarization and Pleasure, this time a fascinating look at Cold War Bunkers by Greg Elmer @[email protected] and Stephen J. Neville. Get reading!!

Our pgrt Márjory Da Costa-Abreu is part of a #BRAID project that is looking at how to use #ethicalAI in order to decolonise museum descriptions!
Her team visited the project partner Royal Armouries to look at the targeted pieces! #EDI College of Business, Technology and Engineering Hallam Computing I2Ri_shu

BRAID Responsible AI Demonstrator Call: #funding opportunity: full details now published.

bit.ly/43T022k Interested? Register here for 18 April zoom webinar: bit.ly/4cPK3WN

Arts and Humanities Research Council #BraidUK #ResponsibleAI #AI

Wow! Career high news 🙂

Honoured to have been awarded an
European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant!

My 5-YEAR project is:

WARSHARE:
THE NEW WAR FRONT: DIGITAL PARTICIPATION IN WAR

#ERCAdG

Here’s a thread about the project and how I arrived here.

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Join us this Monday, 15 April, on Zoom, for Walther Ch. Zimmerli's
Mercator lecture 'AI - Hype or Myth?', reconstructing the history AI success stories and the hidden mechanisms behind them. desirableai.com/events/mercato… Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Stiftung Mercator