[Commlist] Socio-History of Informatics seminar series

This message is to inform you of the first session in the 2024-2025 
academic year of the Socio-History of Informatics seminar 
<https://sohistinfo.github.io/>, a research seminar organized at the 
HT2S research center of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers 
in Paris 
<https://technique-societe.cnam.fr/histoire-des-technosciences-en-societe-ht2s--913760.kjsp>. 
The goal of this seminar is to explore new narratives in the long-term 
history of computing, with a focus on how computing intertwines with 
social, economic, political, and cultural issues. Every two months, we 
will invite a researcher in history and/or anthropology and sociology 
(with a historical or diachronic perspective) of computing to present 
their work. Website link : https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/ 
<https://sohistinfo.github.io/english/>

The first session will take place online and at CNAM in Paris on Monday, 
October 14, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM with Ksenia Ermoshina (Centre 
Internet et Société, CNRS) - *A "Sovereign Intelligence"? 
Infrastructures, Representations, and Geopolitics of Russian AI: A 
Comparative Approach*.
Registration form: 
https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317 
<https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317>
*Summary of the presentation:* /As part of the ANR CulturIA project, 
this investigation focuses on the contemporary history of artificial 
intelligence and its socio-cultural aspects, particularly within the 
Russian-speaking world and its international relations. Marked by the 
war against Ukraine and economic sanctions, the field has undergone a 
restructuring both in terms of infrastructure and in terms of discourse 
and representations. The collective research, conducted in collaboration 
with Boris Melnichenko, follows Russians who create or use AI in exile 
as well as engineers working for large companies in Russia. In line with 
the spirit of Science and Technology Studies (STS), it remains attentive 
to code and infrastructure and describes the significant restructurings 
of technological projects in the context of a major geopolitical crisis. 
By comparing Russian machine learning and AI projects with similar 
initiatives from the United States and China, this research asks: can we 
speak of a “Russian AI”? Are there distinctive characteristics that 
define the ways of developing and discussing AI specific to Russia, 
despite the inevitable borrowing, influences, and transnational 
exchanges that shape this field?/
*Future sessions:*

  * December 16, 2024, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Barbara Hof -
    University of Lausanne
  * February 10, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Cédric Neumann - CNAM, 
HT2S
  * April 1, 2025 - Marie-José Durand-Richard - CNRS-Paris 7 Denis
    Diderot, SPHERE
  * April 14, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Jaroslav Švelch - Charles
    University (Prague)
  * June 16, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Michael Homberg -
    University of Cologne

The summary of each presentation will be communicated later.
Each session will be held in a hybrid format at the Conservatoire 
National des Arts et Métiers, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, in room 30-1-18 
(Building 30, 1st basement level, Room 18). To facilitate the 
organization of the sessions, please register via this form: 
https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317 
<https://framaforms.org/inscription-seminaire-de-socio-histoire-de-linformatique-1725366317> 
A connection link (Big Blue Button) will be sent after registration to 
allow remote participation in each session.
This research seminar will focus on the history of computing not for its 
own sake within the well-defined framework of the omnipotent computer 
and its pervasive environments, but through the study of situations 
where computing plays a pivotal role in the articulation of 
science-technology-society relations. In this way, the seminar aims to 
shed light on a socio-history of computing over the long term and in 
spaces expanded geographically as well as socially, culturally, 
politically, and economically. You can find a more detailed presentation 
of our approach (with the program of planned sessions) on the seminar 
website: https://sohistinfo.github.io/ <https://sohistinfo.github.io/>


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