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SUMMARY:Girls Sc(AI)ence 5: Reimagining the Politics of AI: Co-Creating Too
 ls to Confront Gender-Related Violence
DESCRIPTION:Contact: valentina.fantasia@lucs.lu.se\n\nAn online lecture and
  on-site seminar in the serie Girls Just Want To Have Sc(AI)ence.Topic: Re
 imagining the Politics of AI: Co-Creating Tools to Confront Gender-Related
  ViolenceWhen &amp\; where: &nbsp\;17 November &nbsp\;202513.00 - 14.00: H
 ybrid lecture on zoom and LUX:C121 lecture hall\, LUX\, Helgonavägen 3\, 
 Lund\, Sweden14.15 to 15.00 On-site lecture plus workshop in LUX:C121 lect
 ure hall\, LUX\, Helgonavägen 3\, Lund\, SwedenInvited speaker: Dr Isador
 a Cruxên\, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business and Society\, Queen
  Mary University of LondonRead more about the &nbsp\;workshop series "Girl
 s just want to have Sc(AI)ence” at ai.lu.seAbstractSuch of today’s AI 
 development is driven by large-scale models that demand vast datasets\, co
 mpute resources and invisible human labour — often reinforcing the very 
 inequalities they claim to solve. But what might AI look like if we built 
 it differently? Drawing from the participatory\, feminist work of the Data
  Against Feminicide project\, this talk will explore how we can shift the 
 politics of knowledge and data production in AI development towards non-ex
 tractive approaches that centre context\, collaboration and care.Data Agai
 nst Feminicide is a collaborative research and design project focused on s
 upporting the work of civil society organisations and grassroots activists
  who monitor gender-related violence and feminicide — the gender-related
  killing of cisgender and transgender women and girls. Across the world\, 
 many activists and grassroots groups produce their own data to draw attent
 ion to this systemic\, lethal violence\, hold public institutions accounta
 ble\, support collective action and remember lives lost.Since 2019\, our i
 nterdisciplinary team has worked with activists and civil society groups a
 cross the Americas and in Sub-Saharan Africa to co-design machine learning
  tools that support activists’ existing data production strategies rathe
 r than replace their labour. This work has included participatory data ann
 otation and model evaluation with attention to the socio-spatial and ethic
 al complexities of defining and detecting feminicide across contexts.The t
 alk will reflect on what this work reveals about the politics of AI\, show
 ing how choices about who is involved\, how technology is developed\, and 
 to what ends directly shape its social impact. It will argue for a feminis
 t data epistemology that moves from centralised\, extractive data practice
 s towards collaborative forms of knowledge production\; from abstract\, ge
 neralising models towards bespoke tools attentive to local and contextual 
 difference\; and from harmful automation towards more reflexive\, caring e
 ngagements that question not only what machine learning can do but whether
  it should be applied at all.Using concrete examples from the project\, th
 e talk will also explore the tensions of co-producing AI: how such tools c
 an alleviate activist labour\, where biases remain and what it means to de
 mocratise technical know-how. Ultimately\, it will invite researchers and 
 practitioners to rethink how AI can be designed with and for communities o
 n the frontlines of social justice.Programme 17 November13.00 - 14.00 Lect
 ure (hybrid)14.00 Coffee break14.15 Workshop sessionRegistrationTo partici
 pate is free of charge.&nbsp\;Registration for online lecture or for both 
 lecture and workshop on-site in Lund at ai.lu.se.About the workshop series
 While feminist approaches to technoscience are getting increasing attentio
 n\, fields such as Artificial Intelligence\, Human-Robot Interaction and H
 uman-Computer Interaction are still male-dominated. Similarly\, new techno
 logies\, from assistive robots to chatbots\, are often imbued with the sam
 e intrinsic gender and ethnic stereotypes and biases present in our Wester
 n society. An increasing number of scholars have thus called for a feminis
 t reboot\, praising more ethical\, sustainable and inclusive research prac
 tices and epistemologies in the hope of better technology. Our workshop se
 ries "Girls just want to have Sc(AI)ence" aims to foster knowledge and dis
 cussions on critical and feminist approaches to technology by engaging sch
 olars working with AI from a variety of disciplines -from data science to 
 art\, political studies and philosophy\, and invite them to reflect and im
 agine together how to use tools and theories from critical and feminist st
 udies to implement more thcial\, sustainable and inclusive technology-rela
 ted practices and research.More info can be found here: https://www.ai.lu.
 se/GIRLSCAIENCE&nbsp\;This event is sponsored by WASP HS and Lund universi
 ty profile area Natural and Artificial Cognition\n\nMore information about
  the event: https://www.ai.lu.se/girlscAIence/2025-11-17
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LOCATION:LUX:C121 lecture hall\, LUX\, Helgonavägen 3\, Lund\, Sweden and 
 partly online
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