The TeamID Lunch Lecture Series were successfully kicked off on 13 June 2024 with our first guest speaker, Stephanie Gross from OFAI. The event sparked an interesting discussion on the topic of bias in large language models. You can read a reflection on our kick-off event in this blog post.

For the next edition of this series, we are delighted to welcome you on 12 September 2024 for a lecture by Nicole West Bassoff, a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society (STS). Ms. Bassoff uses qualitative research methods and frameworks from the field of STS to interrogate the ethics and politics interpretive approach to interrogating the ethics and politics of efforts to digitize cities. Her dissertation project explores the implications of "smart city" initiatives for the urban social compact, or tacit ideas of what cities and citizens owe one another. In this breakfast lecture, she will describe how some American cities have sought to empower themselves and their citizens through digitization, only to come into conflict with tech firms as well as with state and federal governments. She will offer reflections on what these urban experiences with digital empowerment "solutions" might mean for the pursuit and achievement of subsidiarity in American federalism.

The TeamID breakfast lecture will take place in SEM31 at the Juridicum between 09:30-10:30. While the session is primarily intended for academic staff, it is not limited to participants from the Law Faculty and we encourage anyone interested to join us.

As space is limited, please register here until 10 September 2024. 

We look forward to seeing many of you there!