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Discussion published by Ulrich Tiedau on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Editing Rabindranath Tagore: A Practical Workshop (London, UK, May 12, 2022)

The Thomas Sturge Moore Collection at Senate House Library (SHL) includes some fascinating materials by the Nobel Prize winning author Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). This workshop will focus on select materials in the Tagore Papers (MS782) at SHL which have been recently digitised. They include poem transcripts by Tagore that were translated and edited by Sturge Moore at a pivotal period when Tagore was being introduced to English readers. 

Discussion published by Nicole Welk-Joerger on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Nonhuman Kinship Roundtable - April 13th, 1PM CST - Register for this C21 Virtual Event!

Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in our second Lonely No More! Symposium Roundtable!

 

Nonhuman Kinship

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 | 1-2:30PM CST

Virtual Event

Register here!

 

Discussion published by Cheshta Arora on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Moderating Data, Moderating Lives: Debating visions of (automated) content moderation in the contemporary

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based approaches have become increasingly popular as “solutions” to curb the extent of mis-, dis- mal-information, hate speech, online violence and harassment on social media. The pandemic and the ensuing work from home policy forced many platforms to shift to automated moderation which further highlighted the inefficacy of existing models (Gillespie, 2020) to deal with the surge in misinformation and harassment.

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