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Selin Gerlek

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Politics, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam #digital_citizenship@uva #empirical_ethics@ias #shapinginterfacesbetweenscienceandthepublic@uva #[email protected] #medical_ethics@uniw/h

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Apr 9

Call for registration

Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures
An Empirical Ethics Workshop with Shannon Vallor and Sabina Leonelli

📅 22 May 2025, 10-15:00, 📍 IAS, UvA

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Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

This workshop explores how values shape research practices and vice versa, focusing on the ethico-political implications of AI, large datasets, and infrastructures. Through discussions with Shannon Va...

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · May 6

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department!

Deadline 26 May.

Happy to answer questions by email.

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Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Political Theory

The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Theory. The successful candidate will conduct research in any area of polit...

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Apr 9

Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Jan 30

@iasamsterdam.bsky.social @uvahumanities.bsky.social @huubdijstelbloem.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @tamardewaal.bsky.social @tpoell.bsky.social @fleerackers.bsky.social

Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Jan 30

CfP: 2-day Event: Towards an Ethics of Possibility: Paying Attention to Planetary Conditions of Livelihood, with Arjun Appadurai & Amade M’charek at the Institute for Advanced Study @iasamsterdam.bsky.social, University of Amsterdam, 3./.4 March

Deadline 14 February!

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Towards an Ethics of Possibility - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

This event is part of the "Empirical Ethics," a research line at IAS. The IAS Empirical Ethics Research Group invite participants to take part in a close interactive workshop with Amade M’charek and A...

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Dec 3

#WOinActie @woinactie.bsky.social
#redsquare

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · Dec 2

This is huge.

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X

The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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Massimiliano Simons @masssimons.bsky.social · Nov 25

More than 20,000 people protesting the budget cuts in higher education in the Netherlands #WOinActie

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 25

Bakst master of vision, nostalgia, and dystopia

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Peter-Paul Verbeek @ppverbeek.bsky.social · Nov 24

Important interview with André Nollkaemper - distinguished professor at @seven-uva.bsky.social / University of Amsterdam - on the need for climate governance 👇🏻

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‘Het Parijsakkoord is een van de grootste succesverhalen van het multilateralisme’

André Nollkaemper | Hoogleraar internationaal recht: Het beschermen van het klimaat is van vitaal belang voor de internationale gemeenschap. De VN zou daarom meer regie moeten nemen met het mondiale k...

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 25

Join us! CfA: 25 January 2025
Joint DSC-IAS #Fellowship on #EmpiricalEthics & #DataScience Methods. We explicitly welcome joint applications from small teams of researchers that blend expertise in #ethics, #philosophy, #anthropology, or #STS, with #datascience approaches.
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Joint DSC/IAS Fellowship Call on Empirical Ethics and Data Science Methods - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

The UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) are joining forces for the fourth time by opening up a joint fellowship opportunity. We welcome applications for our DSC/IAS Jo...

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 25

Join us: Tuesday, 26 November: “Empirical Ethics & Sociotechnical Entanglements”, workshop with Tamar Sharon, Simone Natale, Federico Russo, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, organised by P Helm & S Gerlek #EmpiricalEthics #STS #Interface #CUI

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 22

Always breaking the rules! The first hangover captured as it really is!

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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · Nov 19

Call for Papers: "Phenomenology and Technology"
Annual Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP). Riga, 3-5 September 2025.
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#phenomenology #philosophy

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British Society for Phenomenology @thebsp.org.uk · Nov 19

Phenomenology and Interdisciplinarity: Theoretical and Empirical Applications
Call for Abstracts – 21st Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, University of Southern Denmark, April 28th to 30th, 2025
britishphenomenology.org.uk/phenomenolog...
#phenomenology #philosophy

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 22

Reminds me of amor vincit omnia by MMdC :,-(

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 22

I’d love to join the list!

Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 22

Lovely to see everyone around here! I’d love to be added as well!

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Selin Gerlek @gerlex.bsky.social · Nov 21

CfP: Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society

The journal invites submissions for its upcoming Issue: Empirical AI Ethics, guest edited by Selin Gerlek and Paula Helm.

The deadline for submissions of abstracts is 1 March 25.

#EmpiricalAIEthic #STS #CfP

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