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Rebeca Fernandez — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:01:19 +0000

CDH online lecture: Ana Valdivia on Following the thing AI – from ecological ruinations to ecofeminist imaginations.

Registration: https://cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-online-lecture-ana-valdivia-on-following-the-thing-ai-from-ecological-ruinations-to-ecofeminist-imaginations/

Date:	20/11/2025
Time:	15:30 – 16:30
For:	Open to all

This lecture is part of the three-part series Digital Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil.

From microchips to chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI) lies at the heart of today’s geopolitical tensions. Behind every AI system is a complex web of global dependencies. As trade wars unfold and nations race toward technological sovereignty, AI becomes increasingly entangled with geopolitical forces. This lecture series explores how digital humanities can help us navigate this rapidly changing landscape. Other lectures in this series include:

Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires
Rafael Grohmann on Latin American Critical AI Studies

Automated systems do not just impact an individual or population groups directly. In this talk, Ana Valdivia, departmental research lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government, and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), calls for a rethinking of how we define algorithmic harms and the impact of AI.

Rather than focusing solely on the direct impact of automated systems on individuals or groups, she urges to examine the exploitative practices embedded within the supply chains that manufactures and transforms the materiality that makes this technology possible today. These infrastructure include data centers, component mining, and e-waste dumps to deposit cables, batteries, pipes or processors.

In short, everything that has significant consequences for the territories and local communities affected by the production of such systems. Valdivia spent three months in Mexico to understand how daily operations at ten data centers are depriving the Indigenous and rural community of Maconí of water in Querétaro, one of the most developed states. Her fieldwork revealed that Maconí people are forced to walk eight hours to get water for cooking and washing, while the local government signs agreements worth millions of dollars with hydraulic companies to secure water access for large investors like Amazon or Microsoft that plan to build even more data centers.

As a result, this talk calls for an urgent reassessment of the AI innovation race, advocating for ecofeminist algorithmic and infrastructural projects that prioritise and respect life, the people, and the planet.

Practical information

This online lecture will take place on Thursday 20 November, from 15:30 to 16:30 hours, via a Teams webinar. A link to join will be sent to al registrants before the event. You can sign up via the registration form at the bottom of this page. Participation is free of charge.

Level

No prior knowledge or experience in digital humanities is required. The lecture will be held in English.

For whom?

This online lecture is open to all interested in the lecture topic or the work of Ana Valdivia.

About

Ana Valdivia is a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government & Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies. Her interdisciplinary work, situated at the intersection of Critical Data Studies and Computer Science, has made significant contributions to tech surveillance, algorithmic fairness, and digital sustainability literature.

Her current work examines the trade-off between environmental costs and social benefits of AI by investigating its supply chains, from mineral extraction to electronic waste dumps. She is currently writing a book on the materialities of AI for Bristol University Press. Valdivia also serves as an Associate Editor for Big Data & Society.

Online lecture: Rafael Grohmann on Latin American Critical AI Studies Event details, 30 de octubre

Rebeca Fernandez — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:00:10 +0000

CDH online lecture: Rafael Grohmann on Latin American Critical AI Studies

Registration: https://cdh.uu.nl/event/cdh-online-lecture-rafael-grohmann-on-latin-american-critical-ai-studies/

Date:	30/10/2025
Time:	15:30 – 16:30
For:	Open to all

This lecture is part of the three-part series Digital Humanities in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil.

Other lectures in this series include:
Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires
Ana Valdivia on Following the thing AI: from ecological ruinations to ecofeminist imaginations

In this lecture, Rafael Grohmann, assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, draws from Latin American traditions of critical thought to challenge dominant narratives about AI and labor.

Building on recent work in Big Data & Society and the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, Grohmann frames how past epistemologies, histories, and political struggles of Latin America can inform current debates on AI. Rather than treating the region as a passive site of technological implementation, he emphasizes how enduring theories of informality and dependency are essential to understanding how AI is implemented, contested, and reimagined in the region. This means centering Latin American perspectives not merely as sites of study, but as central to the development of epistemologies and theories on digital humanities.

The talk frames Latin America as ‘labor-atories’ for digital economies. The region has long served as a testing ground for neoliberal policies, which now continue through the platform economy and the AI context. But it has also been a space of experimentation by the working class. This lecture will address the power of collective grassroots organising, digital solidarity economies, and the ways in which workers – particularly in Brazil and Argentina – are negotiating digital sovereignty and autonomy from below.

Finally, Grohmann calls for non-extractive, collaborative research practices that take seriously the knowledge produced by workers, activists, and grassroots organisations. This requires moving beyond traditional policy frameworks and into the terrain of lived experiences in order to understand AI governance from below.

Practical information

This online lecture will take place on Thursday 30 October, from 15:30 to 16:30 hours, via a Teams webinar. A link to join will be sent to al registrants before the event. You can sign up via the registration form at the bottom of this page. Participation is free of charge.

Level

No prior knowledge or experience in digital humanities is required. The lecture will be held in English.

For whom?

This online lecture is open to all interested in the lecture topic or the work of Rafael Grohmann.

About

Rafael Grohmann is Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He leads DigiLabour and is one of the founding editors-in-chief of the Platforms & Society journal.

His research focuses on the ways workers are building collectivities and trying to govern digital technologies such as platforms, data, and AI. It also analyses how Latin American histories inform the present and futures of workers and technologies in the region. Grohmann has published on sectors such as food delivery, media, technology, data work and click farm. He is the principal investigator of Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP) and Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF). He is also conducting research on queer and trans perspectives for labour and technology. His first book in English will analyse how workers are failing and learning to govern platforms through co-operatives, social movements and unions in Brazil and Argentina.

Curso: «Territorios literarios en Antonio Pereira y en la creación hispánica contemporánea. Espacios con proyección crítica y enfoques en comunidades sostenibles»,

Rebeca Fernandez — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:23:05 +0000

Curso «Territorios literarios en Antonio Pereira y en la creación hispánica contemporánea. Espacios con proyección crítica y enfoques en comunidades sostenibles» y contará con la presencia de grandes escritoras hispánicas actuales (Pilar Adón, Cecilia Eudave, Susana Barragués) y de especialistas (Natalia Álvarez Méndez, José Enrique Martínez Fernández, Rosa María Díez Cobo, Teresa Gómez Trueba, Patricia García García, Álvaro Acebes Arias y Ángeles Encinar).

El curso se podrá seguir de manera presencial (en la Fundación Sierra Pambley, León) y también online tanto de forma síncrona como asíncrona.

El precio para la matrícula ordinaria es de 20 €, y para alumnos de otras universidades es de 15 €.

Si se completan el cupo de asistencia y la tarea final, se podrá conseguir 1 crédito ECTS.

Más información del curso y la forma de inscripción: https://cursosdeverano.unileon.es/territorios-literarios-en-antonio-pereira-y-en-la-creacion-hispanica-contemporanea-espacios-con-proyeccion-critica-y-enfoques-en-comunidades-sostenibles/.

IV Curso de formación Mujeres endemoniadas: brujería, heterodoxia y poder en la España premoderna – febrero y marzo 2025

Rebeca Fernandez — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:37:52 +0000

4° edición del curso de formación «Mujeres endemoniadas: brujería, heterodoxia y poder en la España premoderna». Creemos que puede ser de vuestro interés y os invitamos a compartirla. Como en ediciones anteriores, se celebrará en triple modalidad (presencial en la UAM, online a través de MS-Teams y en diferido) entre el 4 de febrero y el 13 de marzo, en horario de 16:00 a
19:00. Expertos en diversas áreas impartirán contenido novedoso. Más información disponible en:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffuam.es%2Fcurso-corto%2Fmujeres-endemoniadas-brujeria-heterodoxia-y-poder-en-la-espana-premoderna-ed-4%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cr.fernandezrodriguez%40uu.nl%7C0543e8b2a89d43d3ca2c08dd1f77583c%7Cd72758a0a4464e0fa0aa4bf95a4a10e7%7C0%7C0%7C638701319672952452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nQxShI15L64C8jgDmXKEA6yYItTB1j02tp9J2h%2FgHeI%3D&reserved=0

Encuentros Asociación de Hispanistas de Argentina: Escrituras teóricas (online), noviembre

Rebeca Fernandez — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:07:13 +0000

Enlace de Zoom AAH – Ciclo de Encuentros Académicos 2024

Curso online: “A quinientos años de la primera globalización: el viaje de Magallanes-Elcano en su contexto”

Rebeca Fernandez — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:04:17 +0000

Curso teórico práctico / Edición 2024

“A quinientos años de la primera globalización: el viaje de Magallanes-Elcano en su contexto”

El 6 de septiembre de 1522 llegaba a Sanlúcar de Barrameda la nao Victoria, capitaneada por Juan Sebastián Elcano. Era la única de las cinco naves que, comandadas por Fernando de Magallanes, partieron del mismo puerto tres años antes con el objetivo de encontrar una ruta marítima que conectara el océano Atlántico con el Pacífico.

En este curso les proponemos un viaje a través del tiempo para conocer mejor los precedentes, los protagonistas, y los principales hitos de una expedición que marcó un antes y un después en la historia global de la humanidad.

Curso virtual asincrónico, gratuito y abierto a todo público

XIII Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de España – Mundos hispánicos

Rebeca Fernandez — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:21:40 +0000

XIII JORNADAS INTERNACIONALES DE HISTORIA DE ESPAÑA 2024

https://www.fheargentina.com.ar/jornadas2024/

Curso de Archivística y Paleografía – “Archivos y documentos castellanos, españoles e hispanoamericanos (S. XIII-XIX)”

Rebeca Fernandez — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:20:35 +0000

Curso teórico práctico de Archivística y Paleografía / Edición 2024

“Archivos y documentos castellanos, españoles e hispanoamericanos (S. XIII-XIX)”

https://www.fheargentina.com.ar/curso-archivistica-paleografia-2024/

VI Jornada BrusELE de Didáctica del español, noviembre 25 (en línea)

Diana Castilleja — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:30:27 +0000

Organiza la ULB en colaboración con el Instituto Cervantes de Bruselas y la Consejería de Educación en Bélgica, Países Bajos y Luxemburgo.

BrusELE_2023

Cursos: Formación ELE, Acreditación examinador DELE. Instituto Cervantes Bruselas

Diana Castilleja — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:56:01 +0000

Información cursos formación ELE

Información cursos examinador DELE