AIDA SEMINAR | 2025

“Participatory Algorithmic Justice: using ethnography and graphic art to think about justice in AI"

May 20, 10:30 a.m. WET / 5:30 a.m. EST 

Amelia Fiske is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich. Her work is situated at the intersection of cultural anthropology, STS, bioethics, and environmental humanities.

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network) & ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

AIDA SEMINAR | 2024 

“Going the way of the dodo”: library music and artificial intelligence

November 28, 2:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 a.m. EST 

Júlia Durand is a researcher at CESEM at NOVA-FCSH, where she completed her PhD in Music Sciences. In addition to presenting numerous papers on music, audiovisuals, and media at international conferences, her work has been published in journals such as Music, Sound and the Moving Image and in collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Music and Television (forthcoming). Her current research focuses on library music in online media, particularly regarding political intentions and misinformation 

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network) & ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

AIDA SEMINAR | 2024 

“Predictive policing in the European AI Regulation: prohibition or authorization covered?”

October 11, 11:00 a.m. (PT) 12 a.m (ES)

Fernando Miró Llinares is a Professor of Criminal Law and Director of the CRÍMINA Center for the Study and Prevention of Crime at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. A native of Alicante, Miró is an internationally renowned expert in the field of cybercrime studies, particularly regarding the impact of technology on crime and the justice system’s response to it. He has published over a hundred impactful works in both Spanish and English, led more than 20 national and international research projects on these and other topics, and delivered numerous lectures at prestigious institutions and universities.

He has been a member of several national and international institutions, notably serving as the current president of the Spanish Society of Criminological Research and Director of the Summer School of European Criminology for the European Society of Criminology. Additionally, he is a member and general rapporteur for the topic of AI and the Special Part of Criminal Law for the AIDP. He is one of the founders of the newly created association of criminal law professors and a founder of the European Society of Empirical Legal Studies.

The event was organised by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network) & ICS, U.Minho, Braga, Portugal.

The seminar will take place online: link 

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 

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.

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 

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. 

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