January 2018
Professor Pink kicking of the year of 'Speculative Instruments'
Welcome back to a new year, a new semester full of exciting workshops, talks and research themes. Many of our Junior Researchers and community members are presently defending their theses in oral exams and we wish them the best of luck!
Interesting Junior Researcher blog posts are thus in the pipeline and a few openings, for students wanting to join as Junior Researchers, are now available. Please contact lab manager Marie Blønd on mblo@itu.dk if you are interested in becoming a Junior Researcher or volunteering for the lab.
2018 is for ETHOS Lab, the year of 'Speculative Instruments'. This is a theme that we will be focusing on through our lab activities and research. Heads of lab and Associate Professors Rachel Douglas Jones and Marisa Cohn present the theme in a letter, explaining the focus that this theme invokes. Read the letter here.
We are very privileged to kick off the year of Speculative Instruments with a visit by Distinguished Professor Sarah Pink. She will be giving a publicETHOS talk #25 on 'Emerging Technologies & Automated Worlds', open to everyone on 1st February at 13:00. Professor Pink's research consists of a wide range of collaborations focusing on digital and emerging technologies in everyday life. Her work is usually interdisciplinary and international, connecting anthropological ethnography to design and engineering disciplines as well as to documentary and arts practice, in projects that challenge conventional ethnographic temporalities. Sharing her vast experience, Professor Pink will facilitate the seminar 'Experiments, Collaboration and Digital Ethnography in Data Spaces' for ETHOS, TiP and the Data As Relation group on 2 February. If you have a special interest in attending, then please contact us.
January is the month for setting goals for the new year! The ETHOS Lab is hosting a PhD info-day for students or alumni interested in this career path - read more below and send us an e-mail to register. The shut up and write sessions are also starting up again on 8 February. These sessions have in the previous semester proven to be very successful for particularly students working on individual thesis projects and provided a stable and disciplined dedication to the craft of writing. Interested in joining in on Thursdays from 9:30-11:30, then please register on http://bit.ly/writewrite. If you are into computational coding, then the Python Study group will also be starting up in February and be announced in next months newsletter.
The ETHOS lab community keeps extending into other research groups and areas. An example, is Raluca Stana, former TA in the ETHOS affiliated course Navigating Complexity. Recently hired as a PhD in the research group TIME on the project I4L, Raluca is looking at social and emotional intelligence in the context of digital leadership and communication. Exploring questions such as “How can we make our employees feel listened to when communicating digitally?”, or “What are the practices of social intelligent digital leaders?”, she is eager to collaborate with master or bachelor thesis students who wish to research similar topics and collaborate on the I4L project.
Stay tuned for 2018 on our Facebook page, Twitter, Instagram and ReadIT for information about upcoming activities and contact us if you have any great ideas for lab involvement.
All the best,
ETHOS Lab
www.ethos.itu.dk