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Past Events

The ESDiT research consortium is regularly organizing events to discuss the ethics of disruptive technologies with other researchers and with stakeholders.

Workshop ‘Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy, using Buddhist and Western ethics’

Start date: February 5, 2024
End date: February 7, 2024
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: TU/e campus and online
Academic event | Online Event
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To discuss how to adopt “Western” and Buddhist approaches to analyse what a broader systemic concept of attention could look like with a broader audience, the Workshop “Toward a systemic concept of attention for the attention economy, using Buddhist and Western ethics” was held on 5-7 February at the TU/e campus and online. On Day […]

The Future of Digital Wellbeing Conference & Pre-Workshop

Start date: February 1, 2024
End date: February 2, 2024
All-day event
Location: Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29 Amsterdam 1011 JV Netherlands
Academic event | Human condition
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“The Future of Digital Well-Being” took place in Amsterdam on February 1-2, and it will focus on how interdisciplinary insights into digital well-being can improve the design of future online technologies.

CEET Webinar Series: AI & Emotions

Date: January 24, 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Zoom
Academic event | Online Event | STEM track
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 The first session of the Winter 2024 Webinar Series organised by the Conceptual Engineering for Emerging Technologies (CEET) initiative took place on 24 January. Matthew McKeever (HKU) and Simon Goldstein (HKU) were the speakers of this session, focusing on the relationship (or lack of) between AI and emotions. The CEET initiative is a joint venture […]

Loving Attention: Buddhaghosa, Katsuki Sekida, and Iris Murdoch on Meditation and Moral Development – Online Seminar

Date: January 12, 2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Academic event | Human condition | Public ESDIT event

Within the ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) project, the working group on “Attention Economy” organizes an online seminar on ‘The attention of ethics’ as part of the series “Attending as practice in the attention economy”.

How Can Attention-Seeking Be Good? Attention in Social Contexts

Date: December 12, 2023
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Online seminar
Academic event | Human condition | Public ESDIT event
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Prof. Dr. Cor van der Weele (Wageningen University & Research) speaks about the question how attention-seeking can be good. Organized by the ESDiT working group on the “Attention Economy,” as part of their seminar series “Attending as practice in the attention economy”.

Annual ESDIT Research Day 2023

Date: November 16, 2023
Time: 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Gebouw055, Condorweg 1, 7332 Apeldoorn
Academic event | Internal ESDIT event
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Researchers involved in the ESDiT programme are cordially invited to register!

Public Lecture: Turbulence and Climate Justice: Disruption, Displacement, and Crisis by David Schlosberg, University of Sydney

Date: October 31, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: TU Delft The Hague, Bezuidenhoutseweg 63, 2594 AC, Den Haag
Public ESDIT event
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This talk will address how the increase in climate disruptions and converging crises can be understood as environmental and climate injustice. It addresses two different conceptual issues stemming from the climate and environmental crises – two distinct but intersecting claims on turbulence and justice in a very unsettled environment. First, the reality of turbulence or […]

Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

Date: October 31, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Online seminar
Academic event | Human condition | Public ESDIT event
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The ESDiT working group on “Attention Economy” organizes an online seminar with Dr. Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) on her book ‘Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity’. The seminar is part of the series  “Attending as practice in the attention economy”.

The Co-Shaping of Attention and Technologies

Date: October 11, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Online seminar
Academic event | Human condition | Public ESDIT event
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The ESDiT working group on the “Attention Economy” organizes an online seminar on ‘The Co-Shaping of Attention and Technologies’ as part of the series  “Attending as practice in the attention economy”. Speaker is dr. Galit Wellner of Tel Aviv University and the Holon Institute of Technology.

Introduction Workshop New ESDIT Hires

Date: September 25, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Social Impact Factory, Vredenburg 40, 3511 BD Utrecht
Internal ESDIT event
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Our event calendar features:

  • Internal ESDIT events (just for ESDIT fellows)
  • ESDIT events that are by invitation only
  • Public ESDIT events aimed at various target groups
  • Selected events by external organizers

So please check the event info to see if an event is also meant for you!