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Mon Dec 05 23:07:04 GMT 2022





AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges
Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
April 27th – 28th 2023
This hybrid symposium is a collaboration between Women in Focus, Full Stack Feminism, and the Sussex Humanities Lab. It explores the possibilities and challenges afforded by AI in archives, and does so specifically from an intersectional, eco, feminist perspective. The purpose of this symposium is to share interest in, knowledge of and concerns with AI systems in archives and archival practices. We see this event as an opportunity to engage in conversation and to support further formal and informal networking and collaboration. The symposium welcomes the perspectives and experiences of scholars, technologists, archivists, and practitioners. We are particularly concerned with questions of if and how AI might be deployed within archive contexts and what the implications and consequences of this might be. We start from the position that AI systems inherit the biases of their creators and require a feminist praxis in order to ensure that AI tools are ethical and equitable and reduce rather than perpetuate existing problematic hierarchies and power structures. Invited speakers include: Dr Lise Jaillant, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Loughborough University. Subject areas can include but are not limited to: Computer vision and archival cataloguing; feminisation of archival labour and automation; AI and machine learning in archival workflows; are AI curated archives possible/desirable; creativity and AI in archives; AI and audio-visual classification and search; AI and searchability; AI solutions to archival silence/gaps; radical possibilities afforded by AI tools; case studies of experiments and tests using AI in archives. Submission: Proposals should include the title of your paper/presentation, a 250-word abstract and a 50-word bio. Please send in either Word or PDF format to (sarah.arnold /at/ mu.ie) and (sharon.webb /at/ sussex.ac.uk). We are open to different presentation styles and formats. Please indicate your preference in your submission. This is a hybrid event, please indicate whether you plan to present online or in person. A number of small travel bursaries will be made available. If you are interested, please send along a short paragraph with your proposal demonstrating your eligibility for the bursary, which may include your status as ERC, precariously employed or having caring obligations, for example.

Deadline for submission is Monday 9th January 2023 3.00 GMT
Notification of acceptance by Monday 23rd January 2023 GMT

This event is funded jointly by the AHRC-IRC projects; Women in Focus and Full Stack Feminism, alongside the Sussex Humanities Lab. Full Stack Feminism and Women in Focus are funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants Call’ (Full Stack Feminism: grant numbers AH/W001667/1 and IRC/W001667/1, Women in Focus: grant numbers grant IRC/W001756/1 and AH/W001756/1).

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