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Summer 2024 Workshops

Organizer: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz


Time Period: March 22 and 23rd, 2024

Location: RP 909

Information: Radicalism in a variety of formations is on the rise in the United States and around the world. Often, the scholars who study radicalism do so through critical media discourse or political analysis. This workshop draws together leading anthropologists working in and on radicalized communities to talk about how we can reshape the trajectory of, support, and expand anthropological studies of radicalized communities. We intend for this event to be the start of a networked community that we will continue to build and expand in the coming years at Northeastern University, with a specific focus on supporting and mentoring young scholars, graduate students, and early career scholars working on these pressing issues.

Attendance is by invite only.

 

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Organizers: John Basl, Kathleen Creel, Ronald Sandler


Time Period: June 3 – August 2nd, 2024

Location: RP 310 & 909

Information: This summer school is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, or other areas with potential research applications to AI and big data who would like to develop research capacities in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), data ethics, and the philosophy of technology.  Designing AI and machine learning systems to promote human flourishing in just and sustainable ways will require a robust and diverse AI and data ethics research community. However, there are few graduate programs that train students in these areas. The aim of this summer long, in person training program is to supplement resources in students’ home universities with ethical and technical skills necessary to research in this area.

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Organizers: Candice Delmas, Marta Giunta Martino. Emanuela Ceva.


Time Period: June 6th and June 7th, 2024

Location: Renaissance Park 909

Information: Resistance to and contestation of such institutional failures as injustice, illegitimacy, and corruption play crucial roles in shaping the life of a polity. Philosophers have extensively discussed the conceptual and normative contours of different forms of resistance and contestation, such as principled (civil and uncivil) disobedience, direct action, rioting, conscientious objection, whistleblowing. However, the vast majority of such discussions have concentrated on the justification of the rights and duties of resistance and contestation of citizens. A lesser attention has been devoted to the rights and duties of resistance and contestation of public servants. Talks in this conference remedy this lacuna by investigating forms of internal or external reactions to institutional failures, shedding light on the (remedial) duties of the members of dysfunctional institutions, examining the impact of institutional dysfunctions for the quality of institutional action (e.g., institutional trustworthiness), and exploring the emotional landscape such dysfunctions may elicit.

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Organizers: Candice Delmas, Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner, Getty Lustila, Joseph Len Miller


Time Period: June 24th- June 28th, 2024

Location: RP 909

Information: The Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) project is a yearly week-long summer workshop that aims to broaden philosophy undergraduate curricula, by equipping professors with the tools required to successfully integrate a traditionally underrepresented area of philosophy in their courses. In June 24-28, 2024, NEWLAMP is an NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty hosted at Northeastern University, and focused on Native American, Indigenous and Land-Based Philosophy. Four Indigenous philosophers are leading the workshop, which will center on 5 key concepts in Indigenous resistance work: Sovereignty, Land, Decolonization, Indigenous Feminisms, and Cultural Reclamation.

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Organizers: Sina Fazelpour and Marina DiMarco


Time Period: July 1st to July 12th, 2024.

Location: RP 310

Information: The IDEAS residential summer program will provide an opportunity for undergraduates to spend 2 weeks in Boston to learn from world experts on data science, ethics, computer science, philosophy, law, and more. The program will help the next generation learn how to think critically and systematically about the ethical risks posed by these technologies, and how to responsibly develop AI and data science systems that benefit the many, not only the few.

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Organizers: Vance Ricks & Meica Magnani


Time Period: July 21st – July 31st 2024

Location: RP 310

Information: The Summer Training Program on Responsible Computing Education will spread robust, quickly deployable responsible computing education to a more diverse range of schools. For ten days, a cohort of two- person interdisciplinary teams who teach at minority-serving institutions interested in building responsible computing curricula will learn about strategies used at other institutions. The program will provide opportunities to learn, discuss, and exchange educational and institutional know-how. Participants will develop concrete plans for programs suited for their own institutions.

This program is generously funded by the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computing Challenge.

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Organizers: John Basl, Meica Magnani, Vance Ricks, Matt Kopec, Kevin Mills, Alison Simmons.


Time Period: July 26th and July 27th, 2024

Location: TBA

Information: Tech Ethics eXchange NorthEast (teχnē), a collaboration between Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT, The Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, and The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard University, brings together educators and researchers to foster collaboration and exchange on issues related to the ethics and philosophy of computing. The conference aims to showcase foundational and translational research, pedagogy, and practice.

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Organizers: Branden Fitelson & Maureen Eckert


Time Period: July 29th to August 2, 2024

Location: RP 909

Information: PIKSI-Boston is an organization that runs philosophy summer schools for under-represented undergraduates from around the US. The Logic Summer School is a 5-day summer school, offered to 11 students and given by leading logicians from all over the country. Undergraduates from underrepresented groups are invited to study logic — five topics over five days, with ten top international instructors —  at Northeastern University for one week in the summer.

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Upcoming Speaker Events:

Ethics Institute Speaker, Dr Kamila Stullerova


Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 909 conference room

Title: The Liberal Order of Fear: Summum malum in global politics’ value debates

Abstract:The current Crisis of the Liberal International Order is also seen as a crisis of liberal values, which are unfit for global politics. Following the work of Judith N Shklar, I propose to interpret post-WW2 international order as a quest to avoid the worst evil, rather than achieve a global common good. I explore Shklar’s summum malum ‘of fear’ in greater detail, addressing its philosophical and political dimensions. Eventually, I apply it to 21st century global order, coining the term the Liberal Order of Fear to do so.

About the Speaker: Kamila Stullerova is Senior Lecturer (eq. Associate Professor) at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

PPE Speaker Series, Leanne Homan


Time: 3:45pm-5pm

Location: Renaissance Park 909 conference room

Title: Interactive Interview with a Clinical Ethicist

Abstract: Interview with Clinical Ethicist Leanne Homan, RN, BSN, MBE, HEC-C.

About the Speaker: Leanne Homan is a clinical nurse ethicist at BIDMC and Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics.  Join us for an interactive interview with Leanne on pressing issues in bioethics and healthcare ethics.

Ethics Institute Speaker, Amy Flowerree


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About the Speaker: Amy Flowerree is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University.

Ethics Institute Speaker, Alice Helliwell


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About the Speaker: Alice Helliwell is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London