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        Date: 2020-01-07 16:27:32+00:00
        From: Richard Staley 
        Subject: Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power

A new Mellon Sawyer Seminar at the University of Cambridge (2020-21)
advertises Graduate Dissertation Fellowships (2)
International Research and Collaboration Awards (4)

The University of Cambridge is hosting a Mellon Sawyer Seminar entitled
Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power from May 2020-April 2021, website:
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai.  The
Seminar will be 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.
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 from 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, embodied behaviour, cognitive injustice
and disingenuous rhetoric.

The Seminars activities include:        

• A week long Summer School, hosted at
the University of Cambridge from 12-18 July 2020;       

• A monthly Reading Group, hosted at the University of Cambridge 
but accessible online for international participants;

• A one day Graduate Winter School, hosted at the University of
Pennsylvania

• Four Public Events in Spring 2021 on the Seminar themes, held in
Cambridge, London, and at Columbia University

• A concluding Symposium for core Seminar members, held at the
University of Cambridge in April 2021

We now invite applications to join the Seminar in two capacities:
We are seeking to recruit two outstanding graduate students at the
University of Cambridge to join the Seminar as Graduate Dissertation
Fellows and become active participants in the intellectual life of the
Seminar. The Graduate Dissertation Fellows will receive an award of
£4000 to support their dissertation research and their attendance at the
Seminar activities. Further information and links to the application
form here:
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai/fellowships-
awards/graduate-dissertation-fellowships.

International Research and Collaboration Awards, of up to £2000 per
applicant. These are intended to support research and other forms of
engagement with the Seminar’s themes and aims. We are particularly
interested in supporting research activities located in Asia and the
Global South. It is intended that these Awards extend the Seminar’s
community beyond its Anglo-American-situated core participants and
support work and reflection across the diverse communities engaging with
AI. Further information and links to the application form here:
https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/about/research-projects/histories-of-ai/fellowships-
awards/research-collaboration-awards.

Deadline for Applications: Friday 14 February 2020
Interviews (for the Graduate Dissertation Fellowships): Friday 28
February 2020


Dr Richard Staley
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge
CB2 3RH
United Kingdom

Tel: + 44 (0)1223 334555
Fax: + 44 (0)1223 334554

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/



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