AIDA SEMINAR | 2024 

"Dr. House 2.0: The Age of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine"

July 23, 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. EST 

Vera Lúcia Raposo is Assistant Professor of Law and Technology and Vice-Director for Value Creation and Internationalization at Nova School of Law/Faculty of Law, NOVA University Lisbon. She also supervised postgraduate studies at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong (China) and as a guest lecturer at the School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the WhatNext.Law research centre and leads the FutureHealth research line at WhatNext.Law. She is an active member of the European Association of Health Law and a Governor of the World Association for Medical Law. She focuses on the use of new technologies in health, medicine, and the human body.

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network), the Department of Sociology and the PhD in Sociology, ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

INTERNAL SEMINAR #5 | 2024

"AI in Healthcare: Objects, Visual Representations, and Futures ", by Susana Silva and Susana de Noronha

June 4, 2:30 p.m. | ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Master's Day in Sociology | 2024

"Challenges of Digital Societies: Reconfiguring policies, work, and culture"

May 24, 2:00 p.m. ET / 9:00 a.m. EST 

The conference features interventions by:

Alexandre Meireles (President of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs)

Ana Cláudia Albergaria (Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, UPorto)

Dalila Durães (Department of Informatics, ALGORITMI Center, School of Engineering, UMinho)

Helena Machado (Department of Sociology, UMinho) 

The event was organised by the Direction of the Master's in Sociology (ICS-UMinho)

The seminar will take place in person. Open access.

INTERNAL SEMINAR #4 | 2024

"The use of facial recognition technologies by law enforcement authorities in Europe: CEECIND project", by Filipa Queirós

April 22, 2:30 p.m. | ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

AIDA SEMINAR | 2024

"Emerging Security Technologies - Emotional & Biometric AI"

March 19, 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. EST 

Diana Miranda will participate as Keynote in the third AIDA SEMINAR. Diana Miranda is a Professor at the University of Stirling, Scotland (United Kingdom). Before Stirling, she worked at several British universities (Nothumbria University, Keele University, The Open University and Birkbeck – University of London). In her research projects, Diana Miranda has been exploring the emergence of biometric technologies and their social impacts on algorithmic societies. Her most recent research projects analyse, in an interdisciplinary way, the impacts of AI and other emerging technological tools in the contexts of policing, prisons, border control and smart cities.

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network), the Department of Sociology and the PhD in Sociology, ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

INTERNAL SEMINAR #3 | 2024

"Participatory Methodologies in AI Governance", by Helena Machado, Susana Silva and Laura Neiva

February 29, 2:30 p.m. | ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

AIDA SEMINAR | 2024

"Generative = Everything, everywhere, at the same time? Generative Artificial Intelligence and Creative Work"

January 30, 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. EST 

Pedro Alves da Veiga will participate as Keynote in the second AIDA SEMINAR: "Generative = Everything, everywhere, at the same time? Generative Artificial Intelligence and Creative Work" Pedro Alves da Veiga is a Portuguese transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Computer Science (Nova University of Lisbon), a Post-graduation in Advanced Studies of Digital Media Art (Aberta University) and a PhD in Digital Media Art (a joint programme between Aberta University and the University of Algarve). His research is grounded on the intersection of art, science and technology, and is mostly focused on interactive installations, creative programming, mixed media assemblage, multimedia generative systems, new media artivism and curatorship, and theoretical work on a/r/cography, a digital arts-based creative research methodology. His artworks have been exhibited in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, China, Thailand and the USA.

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network), the Department of Sociology and the PhD in Sociology, ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

AIDA SEMINAR | 2023

"Hail to the Doomers: Narratives of Control / Control of Narratives in the Gen AI Era"

December 15, Friday, 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. EST 

Jonathan Roberge will participate as Keynote in the first AIDA SEMINAR: "Hail to the Doomers: Narratives of Control / Control of Narratives in the Gen AI Era". Jonathan Roberge is a Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Canada. He funded the Nenic Lab (New Digital Environments and Cultural Intermediation) as part of the Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture. 

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network), the Department of Sociology and the PhD in Sociology, ICS, U.Minho.

The seminar will be a hybrid session: 

online: link 

& in-person: Room 2.11, CPII, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 

INTERNAL SEMINAR #2 | 2023

"Electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system: Projected futures and lived experiences", by Rafaela Granja

November 29, 10:00 a.m. | ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

INAUGURAL SEMINAR OF THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM OF SOCIOLOGY U.MINHO | 2023

On October 20, Helena Machado and the AIDA Social Sciences Research Network will participate in the Inaugural Seminar of the Doctoral Program in Sociology (2023-2024) "Challenges of Doctoral Research" (2:30 p.m.) and "Artificial Intelligence, Data and Algorithms" (3:30 p.m.), at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Minho.

The event was organised by the Department of Sociology, ICS, U.Minho, having also the participation of Eugénio Ferreira, Fernando Bessa, Emília Araújo, Lígia Ferro and Inga Ulnicane.

October 20, 2:00 p.m. | Amphitheatre B2 CP2, ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. 

More info here

INTERNAL SEMINAR #1 | 2023

"Big Data in Tourism", by Maria João Vaz | "(De)racializing Big Data in Policing", by Laura Neiva

[Discussants: Susana Silva and Sheila Khan]

September 27, 2:30 p.m. | ICS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

GEICS CONFERENCES | 2023

On September 26, at 7:00 p.m. (Portugal, GMT-1)/ 3:00 p.m. (Brazil, GMT-3), Helena Machado, by invitation of the Group of Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences (GEICS) from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences at the University of Minho (CICS-UMinho), will give a talk on "Technology and the Social Sciences: (Mis)Paths and Contributions", with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence.

The registration for the online event (in Portuguese) is mandatory. Please use this link 

More info here