Ben WaberToday was another nice day in Boston, and while I was shuttling the kids around I was able to listen to some talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/7)
First was a great first day of #NBER's corporate finance symposium. The whole thing is worth watching, but the talk by Janet Gao on health #insurance costs and #labor composition was particularly interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2sZuhE1qvI (2/7) #economics
NBER Corporate Finance Workshop
Next was a nice short talk by Mirko Bottarelli on metrics and assessment for ID system trustworthiness at the Alan Turing Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyKok6b0-nM (3/7) #privacy
Trustworthiness Framework – Metrics and Assessment Tools
Next was an engaging panel on the future of digital commerce at the #AfricaTechSummit with Akinyinka Akintunde, Tracey Turner, and Seun Alley. #Africa has already been an incubator for some of the most innovative digital commerce technologies, and this conversation certainly kept me excited about the space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYKrSr7_fE (4/7) #eCommerce #startups
The Future Of Digital Commerce - panel session at Africa Tech Summit London 2023
Next was a fantastic talk by @kenny on measuring social constructs with computational methods at the #USC Information Sciences Institute. This talk is an excellent look at the opportunities and challenges in this space compared to and in concert with traditional methods, although I would've liked more discussion of the poor validity of #Twitter data both in the past and moving forward. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPI1dlDasc (5/7) #psychology
Challenges and opportunities in measuring social constructs using computational methods
Next was an amazing talk by Caesar Atuire on a decolonial framework for thinking about sustainable #AI at the University of Bonn. Atuire gives an incisive look at the issues with how AI development is done today, possible futures, and the centrality of coloniality in the enterprise. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34QXiALUyw (6/7) #AIEthics #ethics
Sustainable AI Conference 2023: Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Caesar Atuire
Last was an illuminating conversation with Frederick Cooper on the arc of #colonialism, the importance of considering theories from different regions, and more at #CASBS. Both the perspectives and the historical facts served up here were enlightening, highly recommend https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9oNUpGUDROXw/episode/ODA1NmVjYmQtNDM1ZS00NWQzLWJiYmItNzc4ZDlmMGU3Y2Ew?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjo7rX904qAAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA (7/7)
Human Centered - Frederick Cooper's Illumination of History
Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understandings. Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03 NYU faculty page Wikipedia page Fred Cooper books _Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives_ (2018) _Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960__ _(2014) _Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference_ (2010) Cooper Books in CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection: _Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History_ (2005) _Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa_ (1996) _Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America_ (1993) Fred Cooper article referenced in the episode "What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective" (2001) Jean Beaman faculty page Martin Williams faculty page Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University CASBS:website|Twitter|YouTube|LinkedIn|podcast|latest newsletter|signup|outreach Follow the CASBS webcast series,Social Science for a World in Crisis