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It’s so encouraging to see community engagement becoming normalised across industries and sectors. Yet, it’s only meaningful of organisations do things differently in response to what they learn. Which organisations are taking the lead on transformation in this space, and how are they making a difference for the communities they exist to serve?

#Arts Rich Contribution to #Ethics by Paul Macneill This book is a collection of invited essays on Ethics and the Arts. Most of the chapters were written without each author being familiar with other chapters and there is (unsurprisingly) a range of different approaches taken. Nevertheless, there is also a considerable degree of coherence between the chapters, which I aim to bring out in this concluding chapter. My further aim is to examine the ways (in the particularities of each chapter) in which the arts can, and do, make a major contribution to ethics. As discussed briefly in the Introduction, I consider that the relationship between ethics and the arts is two-way. In this book, ethical concerns are discussed within the arts—but so too is ethics considered from thevantage point of the arts. In this chapter I take up this idea from both angles, in discussing the approaches taken by various authors toward ethics within their artform, as well as in drawing insights from the discussions of various ideas, art theories and practices, and a range of other disciplines, that may offer broader understandings of ethics. There are ethical issues that concern artists and a good many of them have been captured in chapters of this book. https://lnkd.in/epiHfz5V

Insightful read on the Ethics in Scholarly Publishing. Plus Danny's comment on the interplay between ethics & integrity is also worth reading https://lnkd.in/gVXFPcMc

Early bird deadline conference Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology, 2-4 October, University of Twente, is almost closing. Deadline 1 July! Everyone interested in the ethics and philosophy of technology is welcome. There will be ample time for discussion due to 10 minutes of discussion after each presentation during the parallelsessions and several roundtables and panels at the conference. Therefore, you can be an active participant, even when you are not presenting. With the theme of “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology”, this conference aims to address the question what philosophy and ethics of technology mean today. It accordingly seeks to bring together scholars working on philosophy and ethics of technology, whether this work concerns conceptual analysis, reflections on methods for studying and evaluating technology, case-studies in the ethics of (disruptive) technologies, sustainable technology, praxis-oriented approaches geared towards design and social implications, or topics related to these. There will be panels, roundtables, and paper presentations from a broad international community of scholars. Additionally, in collaboration with the ESDiT art-track and invited artists, several artworks and installations will be exhibited, studied, and discussed during the conference.    Keynote lectures will be delivered by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Washington); and Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria). This conference is jointly organized by the 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology and the ESDiT research program. More information and registration https://lnkd.in/g2nn44gY

Update: We are providing the recordings on our website: https://lnkd.in/erSVkDQF Join us for the Digital Ethics Workshop at the Digital Ethics Center (DEC), Yale University A Collaboration between the Digital Ethics Center and the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, this one-semester workshop, led by Professor Luciano Floridi, introduces key topics in the field of digital ethics, such as the nature and ethics of AI, digital sovereignty, and the relationship between environmental and digital issues, among others. The goal is to understand the epochal transformations affecting human self-understanding, the shaping of information societies, the conceptualization of reality, and the new forms of interactions among individuals and between humanity and the world, from an ethical, normative, social, and political perspective. This workshop will enable participants to develop a deeper and more critical understanding of the digital revolution and its ethical impact and implications. Join us for the Fall 2024 semester on select Mondays from 5 pm to 6:15 pm.  To register, this is the link https://lnkd.in/gv4sGvvd (link is external) The location is: the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs,  46 Hillhouse Seminar Room. September 9: Welcome and Introduction - Lenses and Abstractions September 16: From Things to Relations September 30: AI and Democracy - Part 1 October 7: AI and Democracy - Part 2 October 21: The Value of Uncertainty October 28: Soft Ethics November 4: Toleration and the Design of Norms November 11: Tolerant Paternalism December 2: Semantic Capital December 9: Technologies of Hope

Registration is now open for the conference on Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology, 2-4 October 2024, University of Twente, The Netherlands. Early bird registration closes at 1 July. More information and the link to register can be found here. https://lnkd.in/ekk3mXte   With the theme of “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology”, this conference aims to address the question what philosophy and ethics of technology mean today. It accordingly seeks to bring together scholars working on philosophy and ethics of technology, whether this work concerns conceptual analysis, reflections on methods for studying and evaluating technology, case-studies in the ethics of (disruptive) technologies, sustainable technology, praxis-oriented approaches geared towards design and social implications, or topics related to these. There will be panels, roundtables, and paper presentations from a broad international community of scholars. Additionally, in collaboration with the ESDiT art-track and invited artists, several artworks and installations will be exhibited, studied, and discussed during the conference.    Keynote lectures will be delivered by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Stephen M. Gardiner (University of Washington); and Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria). This conference is jointly organized by the 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology and the ESDiT research program. The 4TU.Center for Ethics and Technology is a collaboration between four technical Universities in The Netherlands: Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research and University of Twente. It is a community of researchers that aims to stimulate and perform research in the field of ethics and technology, both fundamental and applied. 4TU.Ethics aims to address societal challenges in the context of a globalized and inter-connected world, and to advance understanding of ethical issues in engineering and technology development. The overall aim of the ESDiT research programme is to develop a comprehensive philosophical understanding of the socially disruptive technologies (SDTs) of the 21st century, and in particular their challenge to the very concepts and values that we normally appeal to in our moral thinking. These concepts and values form the basis of our current moral, political, and anthropological order. There is an urgency to this aim, as we need to develop new moral frameworks to guide these technologies for the betterment of humanity.

Curious about research ethics? In a new series of articles, we highlight some key interplaying concepts of ethics and health research. To kick things off, the National Office team have put together a ‘rapid round’ A-Z of topics 👇👇 https://lnkd.in/eXHFY4Pk

Publication news 📕! The edited volume "Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach" is out and about in the world with Amsterdam University Press 🙌 . My chapter "To have nengli (ability) when lacking xueli (educational knowledge): Striving for success through craftiness in rural China" came about from my own research in Southwest China and looks at how people navigate a society & culture that increasingly shuts out life chances from people without formal education or training. The concept of ‘nengli’ (ability/craftiness) was one of those really fun puzzles to work through in writing this chapter: something that didn’t quite fit within the PhD thesis but brought together many strands of conversations (a ‘keyword’!) in everyday life and deals concerns many rural Chinese genuinely have. The edited volume itself was only possible because of the absolute tenacity, faith and hard work that Gil Hizi put into it – a huge thank you for that, and for being the kind mentor for this project that I wish everyone new to academia could experience. ALSO: My old friend Suvi Rautio has a wonderful conversation with Gil Hizi, Xinyan Peng and Mieke Matthyssen on the book at the podcast New Books Network. They cover three other chapters of the book; go take a listen to learn more about the concepts 'xinshang' (appreciation), 'duanlian' (exercise) and 'tangping' (laying flat), and to gain a broader view of the project, as well as the idea of ‘keywords’ as a theoretical but grounded approach in social research. Fun! For the podcast: https://lnkd.in/dTuvWWqY