{"id":539,"date":"2025-02-03T07:55:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/digitalwelfare\/?page_id=539"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:27:12","slug":"talks-and-presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/digitalwelfare\/talks-and-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks and presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#f3e010\"><strong>Talks and presentations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>10.-11. April 2025<\/strong>, Warsaw, Poland. Conference: <em>Automating welfare: Policy implications of AI in the Digital Welfare States<\/em>. Organised by AUTO-WELF team. More information about the conference <a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/digitalwelfare\/conference-automating-welfare-policy-implications-of-ai-in-the-digital-welfare-states\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/digitalwelfare\/conference-automating-welfare-policy-implications-of-ai-in-the-digital-welfare-states\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>30 March, 2025,<\/strong> Lund, Sweden. Presentation at Estniska Huset I Lund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background-background-color has-background\"><strong>Maris M\u00e4nniste<\/strong> gave a presentation titled &#8221;Riiklikust juturobotist nutikateni \u00fclek\u00e4iguradadeni: v\u00f5imu \u00fcmberjaotamine ja kodaniku-riigi suhete \u00fcmberkujundamine?&#8221; at Estonian house in Lund and introduced project results in Estonian to the Swedish Estonians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>26 March, 2025<\/strong>, Malm\u00f6, Sweden. Faculty of Culture and Society higher seminar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maris M\u00e4nniste <\/strong>introduced the results from Estonian case studies during the higher seminar in presentation titled &#8221;From chatbots to smart pedestrian crossings: Reshuffling power and transforming citizen\u2013state relations?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>25 March, 2025<\/strong>, Vienna, Austria. K\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz im \u00f6ffentlichen Sektor\u201d [Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anne Kaun<\/strong> gave a keynote presentation. More information about the event: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.at\/ueber-uns\/oesterreichische-unesco-kommission\/news-oesterreichische-unesco-kommission\/article\/veranstaltung-kuenstliche-intelligenz-im-oeffentlichen-sektor\">https:\/\/www.unesco.at\/ueber-uns\/oesterreichische-unesco-kommission\/news-oesterreichische-unesco-kommission\/article\/veranstaltung-kuenstliche-intelligenz-im-oeffentlichen-sektor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>28 January, 2025,<\/strong> AI Lund, Fika-till-fika AI i offentlig sektor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amela<\/strong> <strong>Muratspahi\u0107<\/strong> gave a presentation in Swedish <em> <\/em>on datafication and automation at the Swedish Public Employment Service. Event recording: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ai.lu.se\/sv\/2025-01-28\">https:\/\/www.ai.lu.se\/sv\/2025-01-28<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>24 -27 September, 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\">ECREA 2024<\/a><\/strong>. Communication and social (dis)order. Ljubljana, Slovenia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25 September, 2024<\/strong>. Panel \u201cAutomation and surveillance in governance\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Amela Muratspahic.<\/strong>&nbsp;From decisions to data: Datafication and automation in the Swedish Public Employment Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25  September, 2024<\/strong>. Panel <strong>&#8221;Communal welfare: Reimagining automated welfare provision&#8221; <\/strong>(chaired by <strong>Stine Lomborg<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Rikke Frank J\u00f8rgensen.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\">ECREA 2024 conference &#8221;Communication and (dis)order&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Doris Allhutter, Astrid Mager  and Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alc\u00e2ntara.<\/strong> Communal Infrastructures of Welfare: public value, data extractivism and data justice. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Christian Pentzold, Emma Hughes. <\/strong>How to make smart place? Competitive space use, administrative overload, and holistic aspirations. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Anne Kaun, Maris M\u00e4nniste.<\/strong> Sensing the city: Smart traffic AI as communal welfare infrastructures. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>27  September, 2024<\/strong>. Panel \u201c(Dis-) ordering datafication and automation: Towards people-centred ADM\u201d (chaired by <strong>Stine Lomborg and Anne Kaun<\/strong>). <a href=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ecrea2024ljubljana.eu\/\">ECREA 2024 conference &#8221;Communication and (dis)order&#8221;. <\/a>In addition to presentations by Hadley Beresford and Kaarina Nikunen, following AUTO-WELF researchers presented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Maris M\u00e4nniste.<\/strong> Reimagining the interaction between the state and the citizen through a state-wide chatbot. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emma Hughes.<\/strong> \u2019Warm\u2019 human interactions vs. \u2018cold\u2019 technological solutions \u2013 The case of Maternal Benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stine Lomborg.<\/strong> Critical companionship for good datafield futures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>28.-30. August, 2024<\/strong>, Tampere, Finland. <a href=\"https:\/\/events.tuni.fi\/espanet2024\/programme\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/events.tuni.fi\/espanet2024\/programme\/\">ESPAnet Annual Conference 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anne Kaun&nbsp;<\/strong>gave a keynote titled: &#8221;Digital Vulnerabilities in Automated Welfare:Moving Beyond Scandals Towards the Mundane&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/events.tuni.fi\/espanet2024\/programme\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/events.tuni.fi\/espanet2024\/programme\/\">ESPAnet Annual Conference 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>16.-19. July, 2024<\/strong>, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EASST-4S 2024 conference &#8221;Making and doing transformations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>19 July, 2024.<\/strong> Panel &#8221;Infrastructures of welfare&#8221;. (Chaired by Doris Allhutter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anila Alushi.<\/strong> Experience and challenges in the datafication of health: exploring ADM systems in a multi-professional primary care unit, the Community House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Astrid Mager. <\/strong>Data forensics in the welfare state. Semi-automated fraud detection between scientific evidence and individual instinct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rafaela del Alcantara, Doris Allhutter.<\/strong> Expectations of ADM and urban data management imagined futures&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska, Joanna Mazur.<\/strong> Politics and algorithmic articulation of law: development of profiling algorithm in Polish labour market policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>19 July, 2024.<\/strong> Panel &#8221;Unpacking the hype: critical approaches to psychedelic studies&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Celina Strzelecka.<\/strong> Balancing narratives: ethical considerations in AI-driven psychedelic research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>18 &#8211; 20 June, 2024,<\/strong> Copenhagen, Denmark. 5th Street-level Bureaucracy Conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska<\/strong> gave a presentation titled &#8221;<em>How context matters: Human oversight of automated-decision-making systems in welfare administration<\/em>&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>1.-2. February 2024 <\/strong>Leipzig, Germany &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de\/en\/institut-fuer-kommunikations-und-medienwissenschaft\/professuren\/chair-of-media-and-communication\/big-data-discourses-communicating-deliberating-and-imagining-datafication\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de\/en\/institut-fuer-kommunikations-und-medienwissenschaft\/professuren\/chair-of-media-and-communication\/big-data-discourses-communicating-deliberating-and-imagining-datafication\"><strong>Conference: Big Data Discourses Communicating, Deliberating, and Imagining Datafication<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conference organised by German AUTO-WELF PI <strong>Christian Pentzold<\/strong> and Charlotte Knorr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several members from the AUTO-WELF team (<strong>Doris Allhutter, Astrid Mager, Anne Kaun, Sebastian Sosnowski, Mateusz Trochymiak,<strong style=\"color: var(--wp--preset--color--foreground); font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--system-font); font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium);\"> Amela Muratspahi\u0107, Maris M\u00e4nniste<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: var(--wp--preset--color--background); color: var(--wp--preset--color--foreground); font-family: var(--wp--preset--font-family--system-font); font-size: var(--wp--preset--font-size--medium);\">) presented preliminary results from different AUTO-WELF case studies.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>23.-24. October 2023 <\/strong>(virtual engagement) &#8211; <strong>Nethope Global Summit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Postdoc Benjamin Schwarz<\/strong> from Danish team presented on the topic \u201cDenmark: Transformation of the analogue into the digital welfare state\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>26 September 2023<\/strong> Berlin, Germany. Public Interest AI &#8211; workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers <strong>Doris Allhutter, Emma Hughes, Sebastian Sosnowski, Christian Pentzold<\/strong> participated at a workshop which concentrated on the public interest AI and gave a presentation on the topic &#8221;AI in Welfare: public policies, public interest, and political mandate&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>13.-15. September 2023<\/strong> Milano, Italy &#8211; XVI ESPAnet Italy Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espanet-italia.net\/index.php\/theme-of-the-conference-2023\">&#8221;<strong>Welfare systems in transition: between equity and sustainability<\/strong>&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers (<strong>Anila Alushi, Emma Hughes, Christian Pentzold, Alice Mattoni<\/strong>) from AUTO-WELF Germany and Italy team gave a presentation on the topic <em>&#8221;Towards a mapping of ADM systems in 8 European countries&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>7.-9. September 2023<\/strong> Warsaw, Poland &#8211; <strong>21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023 <\/strong>on \u2018Challenges for the welfare state in turbulent times\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUTO-WELF PI-s <strong>Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska<\/strong>, <strong>Doris Allhutter<\/strong> together with Minna van Gerven, Stefano Sacchi chaired a panel Disruptive digital welfare states: how automation impacts the welfare state and citizen-state-relations\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>7.-9. September 2023 <\/strong>Warsaw, Poland &#8211; 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/espanet-warsaw2023.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/espanet-warsaw2023.org\">&#8221;Challenges for the welfare state in turbulent times&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers (<strong>Monika Berdys, Sebastian Sosnowski, Celina Strzelecka<\/strong>) from AUTO-WELF Poland team gave a presentation on the topic <em>&#8221;Datafication and its Impact: Mapping the Landscape of Automated Decision-Making in Polish Welfare System&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>16.-18. August<\/strong> 2023 Bergen, Norway &#8211; NordMedia23 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/nordmedia-conference-2023\/programme\/\">&#8221;Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural Implications &#8211; Promises and Pitfalls&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <strong>Anne Kaun<\/strong> (AUTO-WELF Project Lead and Sweden team) gave a presentation on the topic <em>&#8221;Digital matchmaking: the role of incubators and matching platforms for the digital welfare state&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>20 June 2023<\/strong> Copenhagen, Denmark &#8211; <strong>WORKSHOP: Digital and sensory expertise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Postdocs Maris M\u00e4nniste and Benjamin Schwarz <\/strong>participated at the workshop and talked about insights from Estonian and Danish welfare state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>19.-20. June<\/strong> <strong>2023 <\/strong>Cardiff, UK &#8211; Third International Data Justice Conference <a href=\"https:\/\/datajusticelab.org\/data-justice-2023\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/datajusticelab.org\/data-justice-2023\/\">&#8221;<strong>Collective Experiences in the Datafied Society<\/strong>&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD Researcher <strong>Rafaela Alcantara<\/strong> from AUTO-WELF Austrian team gave a presentation on the topic of &#8221;<em>Smart cities and feminist perspectives on the urban space: Connecting the dots towards the right to the city<\/em>&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>6 June 2023<\/strong> Vienna, Austria &#8211; Infrastrukturen der Zukunft: Wie kann TA anstehende Transformationen begleiten? <strong><a href=\". https:\/\/www.oeaw.ac.at\/en\/ita\/veranstaltungen\/ta23-konferenz\/programm\">Internationale Konferenz TA23, <\/a><\/strong>Austrian Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD Researcher <strong>Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcantara<\/strong> from Austrain team presented her research titled: \u201c\u201cSmart city\u201d initiatives and welfare: reflections on the datafication of urban life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, <strong>Postdocs Benjamin Schwarz and Maris M\u00e4nniste  <\/strong>gave a presentation on the topic of \u201cReconceptualizing the \u2018state\u2019 in the age of automatization\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d0d4dd\"><strong>15.-17. March 2023<\/strong> Aachen, Germany &#8211; <strong>STS-Hub.de 2023 Conference:<\/strong> Circulations, Panel: Cyborgs, Grenzobjekte, Diffractions &amp; Co: Die feministischen Wurzeln der STS und ihre Zirkulierungen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Professor <strong>Doris Allhutter<\/strong> from AUTO-WELF Austrian team gave a talk about on the topic of &#8221;\u201eAlgorithmen im Sozialstaat neu-materialistisch gedacht.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks and presentations 10.-11. April 2025, Warsaw, Poland. Conference: Automating welfare: Policy implications of AI in the Digital Welfare States. Organised by AUTO-WELF team. More information about the conference here. 30 March, 2025, Lund, Sweden. Presentation at Estniska Huset I Lund. 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