New Work in Cultural and Social Evolution
Conference
We are a culture-soaked species; the accumulated information, ideas and knowledge we inherit from those who have come before us are key to understanding who we are and how we came to be. Getting an empirical grip on past and present human cultures and the evolutionary and social dynamics within…
Trivial, interesting, or overselling? The microbiome and ‘what it means to be human’
Seminar
Abstract: Microbiome research analyses the microbial communities living in host organisms and other environments. The field has taken off in recent years with an abundance of claims about the human microbiome’s causal role in everything from our physical health and disease states, to our…
Philosophy Seminar: The Conceptual Space Between Health and Disease
Seminar
Philosophy Seminar Wednesday, October 21, 12:00 - 1:30. (Roughly 45 minutes talk, 45 minutes Q & A.) John Matthewson The conceptual space between health and disease (Co-authored with Simon Keller) Abstract Disease and health are not conceptually opposed, as theorists in the…
Incorporating Fairness in Two-Sided Online Platforms
Seminar
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, will give the ninth HMI Data, AI and Society public seminar. Abhijnan Chakraborty is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany, and will soon join the Indian Institute of…
Trust, Belief and Action
Webinar/Online
The MSPT grad workshop returns with a TPR talk by Jennifer Munt. The title of the talk is "Trust, Belief, and Action". Abstract of the talk is below at the end of this e-mail. The talk will be held this Friday, 18th of September from 4pm to 5.30pm. …
HMI DAIS 07 - Seda Gürses, TU Delft
Seminar
Public online seminar, 4pm 17 September 2020 AEST Seda Gürses, TU Delft will give the seventh HMI Data, AI and Society public seminar. Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, an affiliate at…
Consent and Consumer Manipulation - Principles and Rules for a Fairer Platform Economy
Workshop
Public online workshop, 2 - 5:15pm 16 September 2020 AEST Paper workshop co-hosted by Dr Damian Clifford RF of the HMI project at ANU, and Prof Jeannie Paterson, co-Director, CAIDE at University of Melbourne - 2pm-5:15pm, 16 September 2020. Standard form notices and contracts are…