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    [1]    From: Edward Ross <edward.ross@READING.AC.UK>
           Subject: Dr. Thea Sommerschield - GenAI and Ancient World Studies Public Talks, University of Reading (33)

    [2]    From: EDDY, MATTHEW DANIEL <m.d.eddy@DURHAM.AC.UK>
           Subject: Durham: Crime Prediction Tools in Historical Perspective (38)


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        Date: 2024-11-12 07:42:31+00:00
        From: Edward Ross <edward.ross@READING.AC.UK>
        Subject: Dr. Thea Sommerschield - GenAI and Ancient World Studies Public Talks, University of Reading

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting.

I hope this email finds you well.

Please join us at the University of Reading for the final talk in our
hybrid Generative AI and Ancient World Studies Public series. Full
details and a registration link are attached below:

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (London Time)
Between Machines and Stones: 15 years of AI for Epigraphy, from
statistical methods to the Generative Turn
Dr. Thea Sommerschield (Nottingham)
Registration Link
<https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5bda9236-8d5e-49bc-8137-b30e5fdaadae@4
ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f>

If you are interested in attending some of the other talks in our
series, please find more information here
<https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generative-ai-and-ancient-world-
studies-public-talks/>.

Best wishes,
Edward A. S. Ross and Jackie Baines


*Dr. Edward A. S. Ross* (he/him)
Teaching Fellow
Department of Classics, University of Reading
BA (McGill University); MBuddhStud (University of Hong Kong); PhD
(University of Reading)


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        Date: 2024-11-11 11:20:49+00:00
        From: EDDY, MATTHEW DANIEL <m.d.eddy@DURHAM.AC.UK>
        Subject: Durham: Crime Prediction Tools in Historical Perspective

Hi all,

Please see below for the details of next week's Eidos group meeting in
Durham. Hope to see you there!

Crime Prediction Tools in Historical Perspective:

Sorting Out Technological, Institutional, and Historical Sources of
Suspicion

John Shepherd, Durham University
13 November 2024
13.00-14.30
Durham University
Philosophy Department
48 Old Elvet
Room PO005

Abstract

Crime prediction is commonly associated with dystopian fears of unjust
computer surveillance, mapping and assessment of risk factors. However
by considering crime prediction tools as ‘data driven’ or ‘algorithmic’
we risk overlooking, and implicitly excusing, the historically
contingent human decisions involved in their creation and
implementation. In this talk I will examine a historical case study of
crime prediction in the St Louis Police Department which, in the 1960s,
used early computer mapping software to forecast crime and assign
patrols. I will explore how this computer mapping was informed by prior
racial segregation and subsequently reinforced a fatalistic
understanding of postwar urban crime. I will then consider more broadly
how historians should understand the roots of crime prediction. Informed
by historical cases, I suggest a pluralistic understanding of suspicion
and surveillance forming the basis for later forms of technologically
organized crime prediction.

Contact: Jack Symes (jack.symes@durham.ac.uk)



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