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SUMMARY:Sacred Groves
DESCRIPTION:SpeakerNibha Namboodiri \n\n\n\nSpeaker BioMs Nibha Namboodiri is a conservation and sustainability enthusiast and activist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in initiating and preserving traditional as well as state of the art\, practices and technologies for environmental sustainability\, wildlife conservation\, and animal welfare causes. \n\n\n\nHer most recent work has been restoring and rejuvenating the river Tootha (Kunthi)\, through a people’s movement called ‘Puzha’.  \n\n\n\nThis movement has included: \n\n\n\nDeveloping ecologically and economically viable land use practisesIdentifying and preserving key watersheds and water bodies in the Tootha sub basinOrganising environmental education campaigns on river ecology\, water conservationDistributing educational materialsLectures on river ecologyRiver Otter surveys and otter monitoring/conservation programmes
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/sacred-groves/
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SUMMARY:The Elephant in the Room
DESCRIPTION:SpeakerMs. Nibha Namboodiri \n\n\n\nSpeaker BioMs. Nibha Namboodiri is  a conservation and sustainability enthusiast and activist with more than 20 years of hands-on experience in initiating and preserving traditional as well as state of the art\, practises and technologies for environmental sustainability\, wildlife conservation\, and animal welfare causes. \n\n\n\nHer most recent work has been restoring and rejuvenating the river Tootha (Kunthi)\, through a people’s movement called ‘Puzha’.  \n\n\n\nThis movement has included: \n\n\n\n-Developing ecologically and economically viable land-use practises \n\n\n\n-Identifying and preserving key watersheds and water bodies in the Tootha sub-basin \n\n\n\n-Organising environmental education campaigns on river ecology\, water conservation \n\n\n\n-Distributing educational materials \n\n\n\n-Lectures on river ecology \n\n\n\n-River Otter surveys and otter monitoring/conservation programmes
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-elephant-in-the-room/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Sustaining Ethics while undergoing Digital transformation
DESCRIPTION:Sustaining Ethics while undergoing Digital transformation \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nLimor Shmerling Magazanik\, Israel Tech Policy Institute \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nLimor Shmerling Magazanik is the Managing Director of the Israel Tech Policy Institute. In this role\, Limor provides leadership of ITPI\, including directing ITPI’s policy agenda; Limor engages policymakers\, regulators\, academics\, and business leaders and convenes multi stakeholder groups for discussion\, on Innovation and social goals in areas such as AI\, Data Governance\,  Cybersecurity\, Digital Health\, E-Government\, Fintech\, Smart Cities and Smart Mobility. She is a member of the OECD Data Governance Expert Group and initiated the founding of the Privacy Tech Alliance. \n\n\n\nLimor comes to ITPI after a decade with the Israel Privacy Protection Authority\, as Director of Strategic Alliances and as Director of Licensing & Inspection. She was responsible for administrative enforcement of data protection law over all private sector and public sector entities in Israel and for the enforcement of the Digital Signature law and the Credit Data law. She also represented the authority in international and national enforcement collaborations and testified before parliament committees. She took part in legislation processes from inception to ratification and execution. She founded the Data Protection Forum in the Israeli public administration. She was a founding member of the Government Cloud Computing Committee\, a member of the Oversight Committee over the Smart ID and Biometric Identification project\, a member of the Investigating Committee: Promoting Competition in the Financial Sector\, and a member of the advisory board to the Credit Data Bureaus Supervisor at the Central Bank of Israel. \n\n\n\nPrior to that Limor was advisor and Legal Secretary to the Council for Cable & Satellite Broadcasting at the Ministry of Communications. Her previous roles include practicing corporate and commercial law\, product management in the high-tech industry and a judicial clerkship.   \n\n\n\nShe was also an adjunct lecturer at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and the IDC Herzliya School of Law\, and is a frequent public speaker in academic and business conferences. \n\n\n\nShe earned a bachelor’s in Law\, a Master’s in Literature focused on Women and Gender and a Master’s in Public Law\, all from Tel Aviv University and is a certified lawyer and a certified privacy professional (CIPP/E\, CIPP/US\, CIPM). \n\n\n\nIn 2018 Limor was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top 50 women in tech.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/tech-policy-leadership-and-scholarship-advancing-ethical-practices-in-support-of-emerging-technologies/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change
DESCRIPTION:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change \nSpeaker \nDr. Susan Godlin-Meadow – University of Chicago \nBrief Bio \nDr. Godlin-Meadow is a Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology\, Comparative Human Development\, and the Committee on Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Gesture\, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. You can find more information about her here.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/from-action-to-abstraction-gesture-as-a-mechanism-of-change/
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SUMMARY:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change
DESCRIPTION:From Action to Abstraction: Gesture as a Mechanism of Change \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Susan Godlin-Meadow – University of Chicago \n\n\n\nBrief Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Godlin-Meadow is a Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology\, Comparative Human Development\, and the Committee on Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Gesture\, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. You can find more information about her here.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/from-action-to-abstraction-gesture-as-a-mechanism-of-change-2/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Seeds Of A New World: The Archaeology Of Plant Domestication In The Near East And Thoughts On The Modern Condition Of Man
DESCRIPTION:Seeds Of A New World: The Archaeology Of Plant Domestication In The Near East And Thoughts On The Modern Condition Of Man \n\n\n\nSpeaker  \n\n\n\nDr. Avi Gopher – Institute of Archaeology\, Tel Aviv University \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Avi Gopher (PhD 1985\, Hebrew University\, Jerusalem) is Professor of Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology\, Tel Aviv University. \n\n\n\nHe is a highly influential archaeologist whose wide-ranging interests and research have been highly cited. \n\n\n\nOne of his current major research interests is focused on the Neolithic Period\, the Agricultural/Neolithic Revolution and the archaeology of plant domestication in the Near East.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/seeds-of-a-new-world-the-archaeology-of-plant-domestication-in-the-near-east-and-thoughts-on-the-modern-condition-of-man/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Learning To Collaborate And Collaborating To Learn In Simulation-based Learning Environments
DESCRIPTION:Learning To Collaborate And Collaborating To Learn In Simulation-based Learning Environments \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Frank Fischer\, University of Munich \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Frank Fischer is a full professor of Educational Science and Educational Psychology at the University of Munich. He is the speaker of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences\, an interdisciplinary collaboration of more than 30 research groups focusing on advancing research on learning. He served as President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on how people learn to collaborate\, and engage in scientific reasoning and argumentation\, as well as in diagnostic reasoning. Settings include computer-supported collaborative learning and simulation-based learning environments in secondary school and in higher education. With respect to guidance he is interested in how scaffolding and scripts can make social interaction more beneficial for learning. He was an associate editor for the American Educational Research Journal and is on the editorial boards of several international journals\, including Learning and Instruction\, Journal of the Learning Sciences and Educational Psychologist. He has edited 13 books and special issues and published more than 120 journal articles and book chapters.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/learning-to-collaborate-and-collaborating-to-learn-in-simulation-based-learning-environments/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Open Software\, Open Hardware\, Diy And Solidarity With Your Community: A Mid-flight Case Study
DESCRIPTION:Open Software\, Open Hardware\, Diy And Solidarity With Your Community: A Mid-flight Case Study \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nLeon Fedetov\, Freelance Programmer – Tel Aviv \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nLeon Fedetov is a freelance programmer in Tel Aviv\, Israel. He is interested in developing a communal approach to problem solving\, and open source software\, hardware\, and resources.He has taught himself a great deal of his skills from YouTube tutorials\, and uses these to develop resources that offer alternative experiences of reality and other tools for his community in his lab.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/open-software-open-hardware-diy-and-solidarity-with-your-community-a-mid-flight-case-study/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Children’s Imagination and Cognition
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation on Children’s Imagination and Cognition \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Paul Harris\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\n Dr. Paul Harris is interested in the early development of cognition\, emotion\, and imagination. His most recent book\, Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others\, was published by Harvard University Press in May 2012. This book discusses how far children rely on their own firsthand observation or alternatively trust what other people tell them — especially when they confront a domain of knowledge in which firsthand observation is difficult. For example\, many aspects of history\, science\, and religion concern events that children cannot easily observe for themselves. How far do children believe what they are told about these domains? When and how do they become aware of the conflicting claims made by science as compared with religion?
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-conversation-on-childrens-imagination-and-cognition/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:A Conversation Between Howard Gardner and Sidney Strauss
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation Between Howard Gardner and Sidney Strauss \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Howard Gardner \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Gardner graduated from Harvard University in 1965 with a BA in social relations\, and studied under the renowned Erik Erikson. After spending one year at the London School of Economics\, he went on to obtain his PhD in developmental psychology at Harvard while working with psychologists Roger Brown and Jerome Bruner\, and philosopher Nelson Goodman. \n\n\n\nFor his postdoctoral fellowship\, Gardner worked alongside Norman Geschwind at Boston Veterans Administration Hospital and continued his work there for another 20 years. In 1986\, Gardner became a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Since 1995\, much of the focus of his work has been on The GoodWork Project\, now part of a larger initiative known as The Good Project that encourages excellence\, ethics\, and engagement in work\, digital life\, and beyond. \n\n\n\nIn 2000\, Gardner\, Kurt Fischer and their colleagues established the master’s degree program in Mind\, Brain and Education. This program was thought to be the first of its kind around the world. Many universities in both the United States and abroad have since developed similar programs. Four years later in 2004\, Gardner would continue writing about the mind and brain and would publish Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds\, a book about seven forms of mind-change. \n\n\n\nAmong numerous honors\, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (the “Genius Prize”) in 1981 and the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2000. He has twice been selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. In 2011\, Gardner received the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences\, and in 2015\, he was awarded the Brock International Prize in Education.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-conversation-between-howard-gardner-and-sidney-strauss/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:How to Socialize with Robots
DESCRIPTION:How to Socialize with Robots \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Peter Gardenfors \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Peter Gardenfors has been a Senior Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University since 2016. He has also been a Senior Research Associate with the Palaeo-Research Institute at the University of Johannesburg since 2019. \n\n\n\nAmong his numerous awards and prizes are: The Rausing Prize in humanities in 1996. The Prize for interdisciplinary research by Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis in 2008. The Hermann Lotze Prize in 2012. Universitatis Lodziensis Amico Medal 2012. Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society since 2016. Awarded the Einar Hansen Honorary Prize in Humanities 2017. \n\n\n\nPublished more than 400 articles (see http://lucs.lu.se/people/peter-gardenfors-bibliography-2010-present/ and http://lucs.lu.se/people/peter-gardenfors-bibliography-2000/). The journals include Science and are within philosophy\, cognitive science\, logic\, artificial intelligence\, economics\, management science\, linguistics\, psychology\, archaeology\, anthropology\, sociology and biology. \n\n\n\nHe has more than 23\,000 Google citations\, h-index 57\, i10-index 159. The most cited scholar in the humanities in Sweden.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/how-to-socialize-with-robots/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Science as Storytelling with Dr. Oren Harman
DESCRIPTION:Science As Storytelling \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Oren Harman \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nProfessor Oren Harman is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science\, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University and Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Institute. He was trained in history and biology at the Hebrew University\, Oxford\, and Harvard\, and is a historian of science and a writer. His books include The Man Who Invented the Chromosome (Harvard\, 2004)\, Rebels\, Mavericks and Heretics in Biology (Yale\, 2008)\, Outsider Scientists (Chicago\, 2013)\, Dreamers\, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences (Chicago\, 2018)\, Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux\, 2018\, and Handbook of the Historiography of Biology (Springer\, 2021). His book The Price of Altruism (W.W. Norton\, 2010) won the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Book of the Year in Science and Technology\, was nominated for the Pulitzer prize\, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Professor Harman has written and spoken widely for popular and professional audiences on genetics\, evolution\, history and philosophy of science\, altruism\, biography\, and science and mythology. He grew up in New York and Jerusalem where he lives with his wife\, Yael\, and their three little children. Oren sings bass with the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/science-as-storytelling-oren-harman/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Consensus And Deliberation with Dr. Mariano Sigman
DESCRIPTION:Speaker \n\n\n\nDr. Mariano Sigman \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\n Dr.Mariano Sigman\, a physicist by training\, is a leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. Sigman was awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award\, the National Prize of Physics\, the Young Investigator Prize of “College de France\,” the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. In 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.      \n\n\n\nIn his book\, The Secret Life of the Mind\, Sigman’s ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life\, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions\, how we dream and imagine\, why we feel certain emotions\, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it. Spanning biology\, physics\, mathematics\, psychology\, anthropology\, linguistics\, philosophy and medicine\, as well as gastronomy\, magic\, music\, chess\, literature and art\, The Secret Life of the Mind revolutionizes how neuroscience serves us in our lives\, revealing how the vast number of neurons inside our brains manufacture how we perceive\, reason\, feel\, dream and communicate. \n\n\n\nHe has also written scripts for a TV series and had a minor role as an actor in a recent Argentinian film.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/consensus-and-deliberation-mariano-sigman/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Human-Robot Collaborative Design with Dr. Guy Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:Human-Robot Collaborative Design \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Guy Hoffman\, Cornell University\, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Guy Hoffman is Assistant Professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to that he was Assistant Professor at IDC Herzliya and co-director of the IDC Media Innovation Lab. Hoffman holds a Ph.D from MIT in the field of human-robot interaction. He heads the Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship (HRC2) group\, studying the algorithms\, interaction schema\, and designs enabling close interactions between people and personal robots in the workplace and at home. Among others\, Hoffman developed the world’s first human-robot joint theater performance\, and the first real-time improvising human-robot Jazz duet. His research papers won several top academic awards\, including Best Paper awards at HRI and robotics conferences in 2004\, 2006\, 2008\, 2010\, 2013\, and 2015. In both 2010 and 2012\, he was selected as one of Israel’s most promising researchers under forty. His TEDx talk is one of the most viewed online talks on robotics\, watched more than 2.9 million times. Hoffman received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University as part of the Adi Lautman interdisciplinary excellence scholarship program.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/human-robot-collaborative-design-with-dr-guy-hoffman/
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SUMMARY:The Conceptual Basis Of Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:The Conceptual Basis Of Discrimination \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Gil Diesendruck – Bar Ilan University\, Israel – Psychology Department \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Gil Diesendruck received his B.A. in Psychology and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan\, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Arizona. He was also a visiting professor at Yale University. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Psychology\, Director of the Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory at the Gonda Brain Research Center\, and Head of the Interdisciplinary Unit\, all at Bar-Ilan University\, Israel. His research – focusing on children’s cultural learning and social categorization – has been funded by the Israel Science Foundation\, German-Israel Foundation\, and Volkswagen Foundation\, and has been published in leading journals in Psychology. He has been an Associate Editor of the journal Child Development\, and is currently Associate Editor in the Annual Reviews of Developmental Psychology and Journal of Cognition and Development. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-conceptual-basis-of-discrimination/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Awareness Of The Digital Revolution In Education
DESCRIPTION: Awareness Of The Digital Revolution In Education \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nDr. Ilya Levin – Tel Aviv University\, School of Education \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Ilya Levin received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1987 from the Institute of Computer Technologies\, Latvian Academy of Science. From 1987 he was the Head of the Computer Science Department in the Leningrad Institute of New Technologies (in the former USSR). Between 1993 and 1997\, Ilya Levin was the Head of the Computer Systems Department in Holon Institute of Technology\, Israel. In 1997\, he was a Research Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the University of Massachusetts. For four years between 2003-2006\, Ilya Levin was an Associate Professor of the School of Engineering at the Bar Ilan University. In 2014 and 2018\, he was a visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, Italy\, and Aix-Marseille Université\, France. Presently\, Prof. Ilya Levin is a Full Professor in the School of Education of Tel Aviv University. His recent research interests include Computer Design\, Cultural Studies of Information Society\, Science\, and Technology Education. Prof. Levin is the author of around 200 research papers\, both in Computer Engineering and in Humanities.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/awareness-of-the-digital-revolution-in-education/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Misappropriation of Gender in Indian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:The Misappropriation of Gender in Indian Cinema \n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\n\nShekhar Kapur\, Film Director \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nAfter leaving his corporate career as a Chartered Accountant\, Kapur pursued his passion for the arts and has become an award-winning film\, television\, theatre director\, producer and entrepreneur. He has not only become a prominent figure in Indian cinema\, with films such as Mr. India (1987) and Bandit Queen (1994)\, but also in western cinema\, with the academy award winning\, Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Although Kapur continues with his film\, television and theatre career\, more recently he has also become President of the Film and Television Institute of India and co-founder of the digital start-up company\, QYUKI.    \n\n\n\nIf you ask him what he does\, Kapur will say: ‘All art is about us seeking the infinite within ourselves\, so I would describe myself as a seeker.’
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-misappropriation-of-gender-in-indian-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Male And Female Brain: Science Or Myth?
DESCRIPTION:The Male And Female Brain: Science Or Myth? \n\n\n\nDr. Daphna Joel\, Tel Aviv University Department of Psychology \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDaphna Joel is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. In the past decade she has been combining her expertise as a neuroscientist with her interest in gender studies to study the relations between sex\, brain and gender. In her research\, Joel uses various analytical methods to analyze diverse datasets\, from large collections of brain scans to information obtained with self-report questionnaires. She has published over 70 papers in refereed scientific journals and is also the author of Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain (Octopus\, London).
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-male-and-female-brain-science-or-myth/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Why Study Men And Masculinities? And With What Implications For Academia And Science?
DESCRIPTION:Why Study Men And Masculinities? And With What Implications For Academia And Science? \n\n\n\nSpeaker  \n\n\n\nDr. Jeff Hearn\, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies affiliated to Örebro University\, Sweden; Professor of Sociology\, University of Huddersfield\, UK; Professor Emeritus\, Hanken School of Economics\, Finland; Professor Extraordinarius\, University of South Africa; honorary doctor\, Lund University\, Sweden \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nDr. Hearn’s research has been involved in activism\, policy development and research over many years\, in Europe and beyond\, including long associations with South Africa. His research focuses on gender\, sexuality\, violence\, work\, organisations\, management\, social policy\, and transnational processes. He is co-managing editor\, Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series; co-editor\, NORMA: The International Journal for Masculinity Studies; Co-chair\, RINGS: The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies. Recent books include Men of the World\, 2015\, Sage; Revenge Pornography\, with Matthew Hall\, 2017; Engaging Youth in Activism\, Research and Pedagogical Praxis\, co-ed.\, 2018; Unsustainable Institutions of Men\, co-ed.\, 2019; all three Routledge; and Age at Work\, with Wendy Parkin\, Sage\, 2020. \n\n\n\nAbout This Talk \n\n\n\nDr. Hearn sought to contextualize and justify the study of men and masculinities as a sub-field of gender studies. In addition to the necessary and preeminent focus given to women in gender studies\, we must also include the study of men. Not as a replacement\, and not to put men at the centre of the universe (as that has already been done for millennia); rather\, provide a holistic view of human experience and explanation of gender in society—which includes both men and women (and non-binary). This is extremely relevant in the discussion of gender equality\, as men are typically in the position of power and dominance\, and there are social structures which perpetuate and reinforce this process. The roots of gender violence\, sexual assault\, and a number of other social ills that are frequently studied along with gender can benefit from the study of men and masculinities.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/why-study-men-and-masculinities-and-with-what-implications-for-academia-and-science/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:A Methodology to Learn Lessons from How Community Empowerment through Digital Innovation in Water and Sanitation Sector has Changed Human Behaviour
DESCRIPTION:A Methodology to Learn Lessons from How Community Empowerment through Digital Innovation in Water and Sanitation Sector has Changed Human Behaviour \n\n\n\nDr. Saket Pande; hydrologist and water economist at Delft University of Technology\, Netherlands (TU Delft) since 2010. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio \n\n\n\nSaket Pande’s project experience include assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture and health in Benin\, anthropogenic influence (grazing) on land degradation and water resource availability in Ethiopia and assimilation and harmonisation of data sets from variety of sources and scales using a software that he co-developed. At Delft University of Technology\, he is involved with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda of the United Nations and is investigating aspects of coupled human-water systems such as adoption of household water treatment systems\, links between population growth and water scarcity\, behaviour of smallholder farming in India\, valuation of water in Indian and Lebanese basins\, global P recovery from waste water for agriculture\, and coupled system modeling of rural-urban migration in Jiangsu province of China. Saket has been closely involved with sociohydrology and Panta Rhei\, the new scientific decade (2013-2022) of IAHS on coupled human water systems. Currently Saket is leading TU Delft contribution to a major water conservation project on smallholder sustainability in India. He is an associate editor of Journal of Hydrology\, Hydrological Sciences Journal and Frontiers in Water. \n\n\n\nAbout this talk  \n\n\n\nThe Government of India has set an ambitious target to end open defecation across India. AMMACHI Labs’ approach to ending open defecation in rural India is based upon a collaborative framework that trains women to build their own toilets\, through their ICT based training model that has already demonstrated success in empowering marginalized communities.  There is broad literature that highlights that individual and household psychology underpins WASH behaviour and adoption of related technologies\, such as cVET and building toilets accordingly. Several conceptual models exist to analyse the behaviour. One established model is Risk – Attitude – Norms- Ability – Self regulation (RANAS) model that systematically identifies\, measures and integrates behavioural and contextual factors to assess behaviour at an individual scale. \n\n\n\nThis presentation motivates the use of RANAS model to understand how cVET blended training program (ICT blended with hand-on training) is successfully (or not) leading to the adoption of wise sanitation practices by households in the targeted communities. The aim is to present an environmental psychology based methodology to learn from the success and challenges of implementing the training program in the communities and implement best strategies to maximize successful adoption of the program in other target communities. This is done by providing examples of field applications of the model in other human water use behaviour contexts\, such as adoption of household water treatment technologies\, efficient irrigation practices and conservation of ground water resources in countries such as Nepal\, Indonesia\, India and Vietnam.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/a-methodology-to-learn-lessons-from-how-community-empowerment-through-digital-innovation-in-water-and-sanitation-sector-has-changed-human-behaviour/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Do gamers read instructions? And does it matter? with Dr. Francesca Borgonovi
DESCRIPTION:Do gamers read instructions? And does it matter? \n\n\n\nDr. Francesca Borgonovi\, a British Academy Global Professor \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: She is a Senior Policy Analyst at the OECD\, responsible for analytical and developmental work in the OECD-led international assessments (PISA and PIAAC) and the Education for Inclusive Societies project. Her broader research interests include: gender and socio-economic disparities in academic achievement\, student engagement and motivation\, the outcomes of migrant and language minority students\, and the role of education in shaping trust and attitudes towards migration. \n\n\n\nAbout the talk: In 2018\, about one in three (33%) 15-year-olds\, on average across 52 high- and middle-income countries\, played videogames every day or almost every day. Among boys\, that proportion was close to one in two (49%). Many videogames that are popular among teenagers encourage inductive discovery as an effective problem-solving strategy. Reading instructions is something gamers seldom do. By contrast\, gaming often involves early information foraging and expansive exploration behaviors. In this paper\, we use data from the 2018 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment to explore whether students who regularly play video-games (gamers) adopt behaviors that are typical of gaming while they complete a computer-based assessment of science. The assessment included interactive items designed to identify procedural science knowledge as well as static items designed to identify science content knowledge. We find that gamers do not differ from other students in science content knowledge and in reading fluency\, a measure of how fast they read. Compared to other students\, gamers spend less time reading instructions and display more active exploration behaviors in the assessment on items that include simulation tools. We examine differences in associations by country and\, especially\, by sex. We discuss the implications for education practice and for the design of computer-based assessments.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/do-gamers-read-instructions-and-does-it-matter-with-dr-francesca-borgonovi/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Prehistory of Teaching with Dr. Natalie Uomini
DESCRIPTION:The Prehistory of Teaching\,  with Dr. Natalie Uomini\, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena\, Germany \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Natalie Uomini is a cognitive scientist who is interested in the origins of intelligence. She combines methods from anthropology\, archaeology\, psychology\, neuroscience\, linguistics\, and animal behaviour to study how we came to be human. She is fascinated by similarities across cultures (what all humans share) and the cultural differences in how people think and see the world.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-prehistory-of-teaching-with-natalie-uomini/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Social Media with Arnon Zangvil
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bio: Arnon Zangvil\, a freelance programmer and sociologist from Tel Aviv. He has been developing large-scale Internet platforms and health care platforms for leading vendors around the world\, conceptualizing products\, and managing R&D organizations. Over the last 10 years\, Arnon has been studying the societal and political implications of digital platforms. \n\n\n\nReimagining Social Media with Arnon Zangvil \n\n\n\nThe purpose of this talk is to identify alternative forms of social media that may tip the balance of power away from the handful of vendors that currently control the platforms\, towards the multitude of diverse and unique communities around the world that constitute the more than 2 billion people whose lives are currently affected by these platforms.  \n\n\n\nWhen looking broadly at data-driven production\, three main organizing principles (1)\, or models\, may be identified: The first is the market model\, in which differentiation\, competition and demand serve to create choice and determine value. The second model is a centralized control model\, in which a state (or a large enough corporation) sets policy\, as is required\, for example\, for ensuring fair access to a public utility. The third model is the ‘commons’ model\, in which free association under specific conditions (2) enables cooperative and reciprocal modes of production\, which is the primary model that was used for designing the Internet itself. \n\n\n\nIn real world environments\, the three models usually coexist under tension\, but in the case of today’s social media networks\, the market model only serves the advertisers\, as the users are the products sold on this market\, and centralized control is exercised solely by the vendor with little meaningful state regulation.  \n\n\n\nHowever\, alternative forms of social media exist. Common-based protocols like federated identity and decentralized social networking protocols (e.g. ActivityPub) allow a radically different model of social media: Commons-based models in which communities may both determine their own rules based on their own values\, and at the same time interact with other communities. Only several million users use these systems today\, but now that the societal and political dangers of today’s platforms have been exposed\, this alternative playground may be able to show a path forward.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/reimagining-social-media-with-arnon-zangvil/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:On Curiosity of Robots and Children with Dr. Goren Gordon
DESCRIPTION:On Curiosity of Robots and Children \n\n\n\nDr. Goren Gordon\, Tel Aviv University; Head\, Curiosity Lab \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Goren has six academic degrees\, a BA\, MSc and PhD in Quantum Physics\, a BMSc\, MBA and another PhD in Neurobiology. He did his postdoc in MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. Goren is the head of the Curiosity Lab in Tel-Aviv University. He studies mathematical models of curiosity\, implementing them in curious social robots and using them to assess and promote curiosity in children. Goren also developed Quantum Computer Games\, has a teaching certificate from MIT and loves to dance and play role-playing and board games.
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/on-curiosity-of-robots-and-children-with-dr-goren-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Function and Mechanism of Teaching: An Evolutionary Perspective with Dr. Alex Thornton
DESCRIPTION:The Function and Mechanism of Teaching: An Evolutionary Perspective \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Dr. Alex Thornton is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation\, at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall\, UK. His research focuses on cognition\, behaviour and cultural evolution. Specifically\, his research group seeks to understand how the challenges faced by animals (including humans) in their natural environments shape their mental processes\, how the ability to learn from others affects the behaviour of individuals and groups\, and how culture itself evolves (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/…).
URL:https://ammachilabs.org/event/the-function-and-mechanism-of-teaching-an-evolutionary-perspective-with-alex-thornton/
CATEGORIES:Weekly Research Colloquium
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