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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Society, Technology 1024 647 Stefanie Ullmann

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Society, Technology

This workshop, the third in a series on the future of artificial intelligence, will focus on the impact of artificial intelligence on society, specifically on language-based technologies at the intersection of AI and ICT (henceforth ‘Artificially Intelligent Communications Technologies’ or ‘AICT’) – namely, speech technology, natural language processing, smart telecommunications and social media. The social impact of these technologies is already becoming apparent. Intelligent conversational agents such as Siri (Apple), Cortana (Microsoft) and Alexa (Amazon) are already widely used, and, in the next 5 to 10 years, a new generation of Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) will emerge that will increasingly influence all aspects of our lives, from relatively mundane tasks (e.g. turning the heating on and off) to highly significant activities (e.g. influencing how we vote in national elections). Crucially, our interactions with these devices will be predominantly language-based.

Despite this, the specific linguistic, ethical, psychological, sociological, legal and technical challenges posed by AICT (specifically) have rarely received focused attention. Consequently, the workshop will examine various aspects of the social impact of AICT-based systems in modern digital democracies, from both practical and theoretical perspectives. By doing so, it will provide an important opportunity to consider how existing AICT infrastructures can be reconfigured to enable the resulting technologies to benefit the communities that use them.

Speakers

Maria Luciana Axente (Pricewaterhouse Coopers)

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge)

Sarah Connolly (UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)

Ella McPherson (University of Cambridge)

Trisha Meyer (Free University of Brussels – VUB)

Jonnie Penn (University of Cambridge)

The workshop is organised by Giving Voice to Digital Democracies, a research project that is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, Cambridge and funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation.

Giving Voice to Digital Democracies explores the social impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology – that is, AI systems that use speech recognition, speech synthesis, dialogue modelling, machine translation, natural language processing and/or smart telecommunications as interfaces. Due to recent advances in machine learning, these technologies are already rapidly transforming our modern digital democracies. While they can certainly have a positive impact on society (e.g. by promoting free speech and political engagement), they also offer opportunities for distortion and deception. Unbalanced data sets can reinforce problematical social biases; automated Twitter bots can drastically increase the spread of malinformation and hate speech online; and the responses of automated Virtual Personal Assistants during conversations about sensitive topics (e.g. suicidal tendencies, religion, sexual identity) can have serious consequences.

Responding to these increasingly urgent concerns, this project brings together experts from linguistics, philosophy, speech technology, computer science, psychology, sociology and political theory to develop design objectives for the creation of AICT systems that are more ethical, trustworthy and transparent. These technologies will have the potential to affect more positively the kinds of social change that will shape modern digital democracies in the immediate future.

Please register for the workshop here.

Queries: Una Yeung (uy202@cam.ac.uk) 

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Art Night 2019: A book-making experience in collaboration with Damocle edizioni 880 880 Barbara Del Mercato

Art Night 2019: A book-making experience in collaboration with Damocle edizioni
The Library of Exile grows every day, in a journey that will take it from Venice to Mosul, via Dresden and London. On occasion of the Art Night, we want to make a special contribution to be added to the thousands of volumes by exiled writers. We want to create a new, original book coming out of the interaction between the readers and the library and marking this Venetian beginning. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday 22, from 6pm to 12am, with the Venetian publisher and printer Damocle.

 

La Biblioteca dell’Esilio cresce ogni giorno, in un viaggio che la porterà da Venezia a Mosul, passando per Dresda e Londra. Alle migliaia di volumi di autori esuli, in occasione della Art Night, vogliamo aggiungerne un contributo speciale, creando insieme un nuovo, originale libro che nasca dall’interazione tra i lettori e la biblioteca e che diventi testimonianza del passaggio veneziano. Vi aspettiamo dalle 18 alle 24 di sabato 22 giugno insieme all’editore e stampatore veneziano Damocle.

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

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More about Ca’ Foscari’s Art Night here 

Art Night: Printing in the Library of Exile: A book-making experience around Edmund de Waal’s slam. In collaboration with Damocle edizioni: June 22nd/22 giugno 2019, from 6 p.m. until midnight/dalle ore 18 alle 24.00

Ateneo Veneto, San Marco 1897 Venezia

Free event, no booking is required

Accesso libero fino ad esaurimento dei posti disponibili. Non è necessaria la prenotazione.

Screening of “A Gathering of Strangers”, followed by round table with Stephen Greenblatt 1024 573 Barbara Del Mercato

Screening of “A Gathering of Strangers”, followed by round table with Stephen Greenblatt

Preview Screening of “A Gathering of Strangers. The Making of The Merchant in Venice”. Part of the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 25/06/2019 at 5.30 p.m. Auditorium Santa Margherita (Dorsoduro 3689)

A Gathering of Strangers. The Making of The Merchant in Venice. A documentary on the first production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in the Jewish Ghetto.

Produced by Elizabeth Coffman, Shaul Bassi, Ted Hardin and Kublai Film

Written, directed and photographed by Ted Hardin

Sound by Elizabeth Coffman, Regan Young, Joshua Walther

Edited by Ted Hardin

Assistant Editors Elizabeth Coffman and Andrew Henke

Music by Frank London

In collaboration with Compagnia de’ Colombari

Final round table with the authors

Stephen Greenblatt, Tobias Döring, David Schalkwyk

In collaboration with Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, School of International Education, Kublai Films, Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union,

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

June 25, 2019 at 5.30pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689, Venice (map)

The event is in English

Free event. No booking is required

Pietro Del Soldà: Contro l’esilio 800 450 Barbara Del Mercato

Pietro Del Soldà: Contro l’esilio

Un nuovo evento nel programma culturale legato alla mostra psalm di Edmund de Waal  (8 maggio – 29 settembre 2019) 

Venezia, 21/06/2019 ore 18.00, presso la Sala Tommaseo dell’Ateneo Veneto: Pietro Del Soldà in conversazione con Shaul Bassi: Contro l’esilio
Una conversazione a partire dal libro di Pietro Del Soldà Non solo di cose d’amore. Noi, Socrate e la ricerca della felicità (Marsilio 2018)
Socrate preferì la morte all’esilio da Atene. Cosa insegna la sua scelta ai cittadini del mondo globale?
Qui il programma completo degli eventi organizzati intorno alla mostra di Edmund de Waal psalm
Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

 

Maggiori informazioni su psalm qui/ Learn more about psalm here

Contro l’esilio (Against Exile): June 21st/21 giugno 2019, 6 p.m./ore 18 Ateneo Veneto (Sala Tommaseo) San Marco 1897

This event is in Italian/Evento in lingua italiana

Free event, no booking is required

Accesso libero fino ad esaurimento dei posti disponibili. Non è necessaria la prenotazione.

Concerto di salmi 800 450 Barbara Del Mercato

Concerto di salmi

The cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019) continues with a concert of Baroque music

Venice, 20/06/2019 at 6.00 p.m. at Ateneo Veneto (Aula Magna): Concerto di salmi

Concerto di salmi

composizioni sui salmi nelle diverse tradizioni musicali e liturgiche/Concert featuring compositions on the psalms from different musical and liturgical traditions

Musiche di/Music by Claudio Monteverdi, Salomone Rossi, Jacob Van Eyck  e altri/and others
Ensemble della Scuola di Musica Antica di Venezia
Antonella Gianese e Lisa Dunk, soprani/sopranos
Laura Secco, viola da gamba e flauti/viol and recorders
Nicola Lamon, clavicembalo/harpsichord
Marco Rosa Salva, flauti dolci/ recorders
Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

Concerto di salmi: June 20th, 6 p.m. Ateneo Veneto (Aula Magna) San Marco 1897

Free event, but booking is required: bookings@psalmvenice.org

Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa and Steven Varni in conversation 1000 525 Barbara Del Mercato

Transwonderland: Noo Saro-Wiwa and Steven Varni in conversation

A new event from the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Thursday, June 13th 2019

5.30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Aula B Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Venice

Noo Saro-Wiwa

in conversation with Steven Varni

Presents Looking for Transwonderland (Granta Books 2012, Translated in Italian  by Caterina Barboni as In cerca di Transwonderland, 66th&2nd, 2015)

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria — a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Recently, she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for.

Saro-Wiwa travels from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park. She explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood.

She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it si far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rainforest and ancient palaces and monuments. Most engagingly of all, she introduces us to the many people she meets, and gives us hilarious insights into the African character, its passion, wit and ingenuity.

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

 

This event is in English and open to all.

In collaboration with 66th&2nd

Noo Saro-Wiwa
Filippo Michelangelo Ceredi: Psalming 1003 487 Barbara Del Mercato

Filippo Michelangelo Ceredi: Psalming

A performance which is part of the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 16/06/2019, performance 5 times during the day (see details below) Ateneo Veneto, San Marco 1897

psalming – di/by Filippo Michelangelo Ceredi (40’)

Performance in dialogo con psalm/biblioteca dell’esilio di Edmund de Waal/Performance in dialogue with Edmund de Waal’s psalm/library of exile

con/with Astrid Casali, Mercedes Casali, Liber Dorizzi, Fabio Guidotti

collaborazione alla drammaturgia/dramaturgy advice Gaia Clotilde Chernetich 

a cura di/curated by Susanne Franco

Attraverso il linguaggio del corpo, della voce e della scrittura psalming vi invita ad abitare la biblioteca dell’esilio partecipando a un movimento di echi e dissolvenze.
Through the language of body, voice and writing, psalming invites you to inhabit the library of exile by participating in a movement made of fading echoes.

 

La performance avrà luogo cinque volte nell’arco della giornata del 16 giugno, alle ore: 11.00 – 12.00 – 15.00 – 16.00 – 17.00.

The performance will take place five times on June 16th at: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Ingresso libero, prenotazione obbligatoria: bookings@psalmvenice.org

Free entrance, booking is essential: bookings@psalmvenice.org.

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

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June 16th, 2019 at 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Free event, but booking is essential: bookings@psalmvenice.org

Nato a Locarno nel 1982. Cresce e studia a Milano, dove si laurea in filosofia. Nell’audiovisivo lavora come assistente alla regìa di Marco Bechis, segue la realizzazione di serie web e realizza progetti da videomaker. Dal 2012 inizia una formazione teatrale seguendo laboratori e lavorando come tecnico e nel 2016 debutta a Danae Festival con “Between Me and P.”, presentato successivamente a Santarcangelo Festival 2017, Short Theatre 2018 e Festival Parallèle 2019

 

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Tales of Exile, Poems of Exile: Edmund de Waal returns to Venice 800 450 Barbara Del Mercato

Tales of Exile, Poems of Exile: Edmund de Waal returns to Venice

Two new events from the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 06/06/2019 at 5.00 p.m. at Ateneo Veneto (Sala Tommaseo): Tales of Exile

Venice, 07/06/2019 at 5.00 p.m. at Ateneo Veneto (Aula Magna): Poems of Exile

On June 6, Edmund de Waal will return to Venice to dialogue with five writers at the Ateneo Veneto about the themes of his exhibition, psalm.
With: Lisa Appignanesi, Laura Forti, Helon Habila, Danielle McLaughlin, Sabine Scholl.

What is exile? How many forms does it take? Which books in the Library of Exile were most inspiring to the authors? We will hear various stories of exile (with simultaneous Italian translation) from Nigeria, Italy, Austria, Ireland, England… but also Chile, Poland, and the United States. The event starts at 5 PM, and reservations are essential: bookings@psalmvenice.org

On June 7, the Library of Exile (in the Aula Magna of the University of Veneto) will host a rich afternoon of readings, with three poets who will alternate with readers from the Casa delle Parole.

With Michael Kelleher, Jaroslav Mikolaewsky, André Naffis-Sahely and Casa delle Parole.

Poets will share original and classic texts on exile, ranging through time and between languages; these texts are housed together in the Library of Exile, which for weeks has been welcoming thousands of visitors. The event starts at 5 PM, and reservations are essential: bookings@psalmvenice.org

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Edmund de Waal torna a Venezia, all’Ateneo Veneto, per dialogare il 6 giugno con cinque scrittori intorno ai temi della sua mostra psalm.

Con: Lisa Appignanesi, Laura Forti, Helon Habila, Danielle McLaughlin, Sabine Scholl.
Cos’è l’esilio? Quante forme ne esistono? Da quali libri ospitati nella Biblioteca dell’Esilio sono stati più ispirati gli autori? Nigeria, Italia, Austria, Irlanda, Inghilterra… ma anche Cile, Polonia, Stati Uniti  saranno i paesi dai quali ascolteremo (con traduzione italiana simultanea) vari racconti dell’esilio. Inizio alle ore 17, è necessaria la prenotazione: bookings@psalmvenice.org
Il 7 giugno la Biblioteca dell’Esilio (nell’Aula Magna dell’Ateneo Veneto) ospita un ricchissimo pomeriggio di lettura, con tre poeti che si alterneranno ai lettori della Casa delle Parole per condividere testi originali e classici sull’esilio, spaziando nel tempo e tra le lingue, e abitando insieme la Biblioteca dell’Esilio che da settimane sta accogliendo migliaia di visitatori.
Con Michael Kelleher, Jaroslav Mikolaewsky, André Naffis-Sahely and Casa delle Parole.
Inizio alle ore 17, è necessaria la prenotazione: bookings@psalmvenice.org

In collaborazione con: Wyndham Campbell Prizes, Casa delle Parole, lineadacqua, Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

Tales of Exile: June 6th, 5 p.m. Ateneo Veneto (Sala Tommaseo) San Marco 1897 Venezia – Italian translation available

Poems of Exile: June 7th, 5 p.m. Ateneo Veneto (Aula Magna) San Marco 1897 – The event is in English and Italian, no translation available

Booking is required for both events: bookings@psalmvenice.org

The Law and Love in Schelling’s Pauline Anthropology 460 288 Tom Carlson

The Law and Love in Schelling’s Pauline Anthropology

May 31, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.

Robertson Gymnasium 1000A

Schelling’s late philosophy is rightly held to have a strong, if not simply one-dimensional, connection to the question of the religious, and a particular investment in Christianity. Here I will investigate one particular aspect of that connection: Schelling’s philosophical reappropriation of the Pauline critique of the Law.

By the Law, Schelling understands the moral law, and so the condition of possibility of any universal normative ethics. Such an ethics, Schelling seeks to show, is irreconcilably at odds with the concept of personhood. But only as persons can we hope to live lives well-pleasing to God – lives, that is, in which our estrangement from the world, our fellow man, and God is overcome. It is thus only by striving to establish a relationship from person to person, from individual seeker to personal God, that consciousness can hope to be reunited with God in actuality and attain what one might call blessedness or, in more everyday terms, genuine happiness.

Schelling’s Pauline anthropology thus forms the hinge between the two halves of his late system, that is, between his purely rational, a priori negative philosophy on the one hand, and the historical movement which consciousness goes through in its relation to the divine in his so-called positive philosophy on the other. This anthropology, elaborated in the 24th lecture of the late text known as the Philosophical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology, thus forms not merely a poignant but a privileged site for thinking through what meaning the religious has for Schelling’s metaphysical and ethical thought.

Reading

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Philosophical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology, Lecture 24.

Le strade per il Talmud – Stefano Bartezzaghi, Rav Roberto Della Rocca, Benedetta Tobagi, Shulim Vogelmann 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato

Le strade per il Talmud – Stefano Bartezzaghi, Rav Roberto Della Rocca, Benedetta Tobagi, Shulim Vogelmann

Un nuovo appuntamento nel calendario di eventi culturali che accompagnano la mostra “psalm” di Edmund de Waal (8 maggio-29 settembre 2019)

Venezia, 29/05/2019 ore 17.30,  Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911)

Pubblicato per la prima volta a Venezia nel Cinquecento, il Talmud è un’opera che segna la cultura ebraica, fondendo insieme rito, interpretazione, filosofia, legge, narrazione. In occasione della prima traduzione italiana integrale, quattro voci diverse ci aiutano a scoprire come un lettore non specialista può avvicinarsi a questo capolavoro del pensiero.

In collaborazione con Giuntina

Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Venezia

Posti limitati, è necessaria la prenotazione: bookings@psalmvenice.org

 Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

May 29, 2019 at 5.30pm

Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Venice

L’incontro è in italiano/The event is in Italian

Booking is required/la prenotazione è obbligatoria: bookings@psalmvenice.org