Series 3:
Equity@Bauhaus — Movie Edition
Series 4:
Equity@Bauhaus — Equity & AI
Series 4: »EQUITY & AI«
The interdisciplinary lecture series »Equity@Bauhaus« is entering the next round: This time the focus is on »Equity & AI«!
All members and affiliates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are warmly invited to attend!
Admission is free.
Location & Time:
All lectures will take place in the Bauhaus.Atelier (located in the courtyard behind the Main Building) at 4:30 PM.
Drinks and snacks can be purchased at the coffee bar.
Language:
The lectures are mostly held in English.
Registration:
Registration is not required, but places are limited.
PROGRAMME
Monday, 4 November 2024:
Gabriele Bolek-Fügl: »Von Technik zu Werten: Die transformative Kraft der KI«
(Language: German)
Im Rahmen dieses Workshops wird die Rolle von KI im Bereich des Whistleblowings unter die Lupe genommen, insbesondere im Spannungsfeld zwischen Inklusion und Überwachung. Der Vortrag fokussiert die moralischen und ethischen Konflikte, denen sich Whistleblower gegenüberstehen: »Soll man Missstände melden oder schweigen?« Wie könnte KI nun helfen, diese Entscheidung sicherer und gerechter zu gestalten? Oder bedeutet die Verwendung von KI-Technologie, dass statt Whistleblower zu schützen, deren Enttarnung und Verfolgung erleichtert wird und bestehende Ungleichheiten sich verschärfen?
Monday, 11 November 2024:
Lucie Jacquet-Malo: »Equity of AI in Teaching«
(Language: English)
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education is a transformative shift, offering diverse applications that cater to both educators and students. From the educator's perspective, AI can streamline administrative tasks, enable personalized learning, and provide data-driven insights. However, the equity of AI is influenced by varying levels of technological proficiency among educators, often dependent on the quality of training provided by different universities. Therefore, a comprehensive approach to change management, including continuous support and training, is crucial to ensure all educators can leverage AI effectively.
From the student's perspective, AI can enhance learning experiences, but it also presents challenges. The rising issue of illectronism, or the inability to use digital tools effectively, can exacerbate educational disparities. Moreover, students should have the freedom to participate in and influence the digital transformation of their universities. Therefore, promoting digital literacy and encouraging student involvement in the implementation of AI can contribute to a more equitable use of AI in teaching.
Wednesday, 27 November 2024:
Martin Mundt: »Why Participation is essential to AI, but not yet part of its design process«
(Language: English)
This talk will present examples as thought-provoking impulses on why AI systems need to by designed dynamically and under diverse participation. However, it will also shed a light on why it is so difficult to do so and what we can do.
Monday, 13 January 2025:
Aisha Kadiri: »Digital Colonialism and Algorithmic Alienation«
(Language: English)
We are increasingly surrounded by and interact with digital technology and algorithmic systems. Evermore of our lives, both offline and online, produces continuous streams of data. While our technology-permeated lives are often described using examples of smart fridges or social media usage, one can also turn towards the precariously-employed platform worker, the refugee getting her retina scanned to receive food from a humanitarian organization, or the miner extracting raw minerals for what will eventually become digital devices. An emergent literature argues that these examples are best described as digital colonialism. That is, as part of enduring colonial relations of power and new forms of colonial extraction. Often, such analyses focus on the extraction of data resources, racialized dispossession, and big technology companies. Little is written about the subject of such colonial-technological world. How does she make sense of this world? Does digital colonialism alter her understanding of herself, either as an individual or as part of a broader community, and if yes, how? How do things become meaningful in a digital colonial world and how is meaning lost? These questions and their answers are paramount in order to grasp what is at stake in today’s algorithmically-permeated living. With what I term »algorithmic alienation«, I will examine the subject’s disturbed relation to the world and the mediating role of algorithms within such relation.
Wednesday, 22 January 2025:
Cécile Favre: »Equity in AI — A Focus on Data Categorization«
(Language: English)
The concept of category has been the subject of multiple works in various disciplines. In this lecture, we attempt to provide a perspective on this concept with regard to the issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the context of Artificial Intelligence. More precisely, this concerns discussing non-neutrality in the analysis according to the categories and their modalities, questioning who builds them and how, and addressing the issues of multidisciplinary contributions and the posture in producing AI algorithms.
Monday, 27 January 2025:
Anja Bodenschatz: »How do autonomous systems alter the way we approach dilemmas?«
(Language: English)
Autonomous systems are becoming ubiquitous in our society. There is an ongoing debate on how these systems should deal with dilemmas that arise between humans. A growing number of experimental studies shed light on moral intuitions toward human decision-makers and autonomous systems with respect to their actions in emergency dilemmas. This interest is driven by the necessity to pre-program autonomous systems for these situations. This talk will provide an overview of these studies and highlight possible reasons for differences in our moral evaluations of humans and machines in dilemmatic situations.
Monday, 3 February 2025:
Theresa Züger: »Public Interest AI«
(Language: English)
This session will present how AI for the public interest can be understood and give examples of use cases. We will aim to give an overview of application fields, potentials and challenges of AI in the public interest. Finally, this session will provide critical reflection on AI development in general, since AI in the public interest is rather a niche than a mainstream phenomenon.
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Series 3: »MOVIE EDITION«
Film Programme on Topics of Equity, Diversity, and Anti-Discrimination
From March to June 2024, the Equal Opportunity Office and the Diversity Department are presenting a film programme on topics of equity, diversity and anti-discrimination.
All members and affiliates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are cordially invited to attend!
Admission is free.
Friday, 08 March 2024
Thursday, 21 March 2024
Friday, 26 April 2024
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Friday, 17 May 2024
Saturday, 18 May 2024
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Monday, 25 November 2024
»THERE'S STILL TOMORROW« (I 2023)
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (November 25th), we are showing the film »THERE'S STILL TOMORROW« (German dubbed version with English subtitles, PG 12) in co-operation with the Frauenzentrum Weimar e.V.:
Synopsis: »Rome, 1946 after the liberation from fascism. Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is the wife of Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) and the mother of three children. Two roles she fulfils with devotion. On top of this, she helps out the household budget with lots of small jobs to keep the family afloat. Ivano, on the other hand, feels entitled to remind everyone who the breadwinner is. And not just with words. Physical and psychological violence are part of Delia's everyday life. Until a mysterious letter arrives that gives her the courage to throw everything overboard and wish for a better life, and not just for herself ...
Writer, director and leading actress Paola Cortellesi is one of Italy's most dynamic and versatile artists. Her directorial debut does not proclaim feminism with a raised index finger, but tells of the many small steps on the long road to emancipation. In terms of genre, she constantly switches between drama and comedy. It is a laconic, shoulder-shrugging humour with which the women hold together in this repressive time under the radar of tyrannical men, a light, almost casual female solidarity in the face of the oppressive force of patriarchy with its outdated role models. Ideas that persist to this day.« (Translation of the distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Datum: Monday, 25 November 2024
Uhrzeit: 8:00 PM
Ort: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Sprache: German dubbed version with English subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
»DIE UNBEUGSAMEN« (D 2022)
On the occasion of FLINTA* Fight Day (March 8th), we are showing the documentary film »DIE UNBEUGSAMEN« (German with German subtitles, PG 0):
»Politics is far too serious a matter to be left to men alone.«
(Käte Strobel, Federal Minister 1966–1972)
»›DIE UNBEUGSAMEN‹ tells the story of women in the Bonn Republic who, like true pioneers, literally had to fight for their participation in democratic decision-making processes against men obsessed with success and drunk with the power of their office. Fearless, ambitious and with infinite patience, they pursued their path and defied prejudice and sexual discrimination.
Today, female politicians from from the past have their say. Their memories are both funny and bitter, absurd and sometimes frighteningly topical. Interwoven with partly unseen archive clips, documentary filmmaker and journalist Torsten Körner (›Angela Merkel — The Unexpected‹) has succeeded in creating an emotionally moving chronicle of West German politics from the 1950s to German reunification. The images he has found unfold a force that allows us to rediscover the cinema as a place of political self-assurance. An insightful contemporary document that cannot be ignored and that makes an important contribution to the current debate.« (Translation of the distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Date: Friday, 08 March 2024
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Language: German (with German subtitles for people with hearing impairments)
FREE ADMISSION
TALK/CONVERSATION AND FILM
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (21 March) and the anniversary of the recognition of the Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma (17 March), we would like to take a critical look at the topic of »antigypsyism« and the history of discrimination and persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany.
Melody Steinbach, Educational Ambassador for Antigypsyism, will introduce us to the topic. Ms Steinbach is a member of the Student Association of German Sinti and Roma and a contributor to the research project »Sinti* and Roma* in the German University Landscape« at the University of Vechta.
Afterwards we will show Adrian Oeser's documentary film »THE LONG PATH OF THE SINTI AND ROMA« (German with English subtitles, 45 min). The film received the German Human Rights Film Award1 in the short film category in 2022. Here you can find a short (German language) interview with director Adrian Oeser on this occasion.
Documentary Film: »The Long Path of the Sinti and Roma« (D 2022)
»In 1980, eleven Sinti go on hunger strike at the Dachau concentration camp memorial. They protest because the persecution of members of their minority did not end with the liberation in 1945, racism against them persists and the genocide of Sinti and Roma is still not officially recognised. Based on personal life stories, the film traces the history of Germany's largest national minority. Footage from the ARD archives documents how public broadcasting also supported and fuelled racism against Sinti and Roma for a long time. In academia, ›research‹ from the Nazi era was used to stigmatise members of the minority. In the state criminal investigation offices, police officers worked with the files of the Nazis until the 1980s in order to systematically record Sinti and Roma. Only then, forty years after the end of the war, did civil rights activists force the handover of these files. The film lets Sinti and Roma have their say with their views and stories in order to counter racist narratives about their minority and to show that Sinti and Roma were not only victims but also actors.« (Distributor's announcement text)
Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024
Uhrzeit: 6:00 PM
Ort: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Sprache: German with English subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
1 The German Human Rights Film Award (Deutscher Menschenrechts-Filmpreis) has been awarded on the occasion of International Human Rights Day since 1998. Every two years, it honours outstanding film and television productions that deal with human rights issues. Here you can find the current »Call for Entries« (application deadline: 15 June 2024).
»BLUE JEAN« (UK 2022)
On the occasion of the International Lesbian Visibility Day (April 26th), we are showing the film »BLUE JEAN« (English with German subtitles, PG 16):
Synopsis: »England, 1988: Jean, a sports teacher, is forced to lead a double life: Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative parliamentary majority have just passed Section 28 — a homophobic law that bans ›the promotion of homosexuality‹. As a result, nobody at school is allowed to know that Jean is a lesbian — otherwise she could lose her job. Her combative partner Vic supports her, but would like Jean to be a little more courageous. On the weekends, they immerse themselves in Newcastle's queer nightlife together. When Jean meets one of her students in a lesbian bar, she has to make a difficult decision...
In her debut film, director Georgia Oakley tells a gripping and multi-layered story of a deeply repressive time in Great Britain, in which the lives of countless lesbians and gays were significantly restricted or even destroyed by political decisions. At the same time, ›BLUE JEAN‹ also bears witness to the resilient power of a queer community that was just beginning to form in opposition to the Iron Lady and her Conservative government.« (Translation of the distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Date: Friday, 26. April 2024
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Language: English with German subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
»THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE« (D 2013)
To mark the anniversary of the Istanbul Convention (11 May) and the »Protection against Violence in Thuringia« action days« (7 to 17 May), we are showing the film »THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE« (German with English subtitles, PG 16) in cooperation with the Frauenzentrum Weimar, followed by a panel discussion:
Synopsis: »The story of a young family. The never-ending labour of love that gives rise to what we later call a person's soul. Creating the space of love into which the child's soul grows. The mother who cares almost exclusively for her young daughter. The violence between man and woman. We watch as this woman sinks. And how she does everything she can to save the child's soul, to keep it intact, to allow it to develop, to teach the child love. ›THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE‹ is a film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy. And the strangeness in us. The violence.« (Translation of the distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Date: Thursday, 16 May 2024
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Language: German with English subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
»XXY« (AR/E/F 2007)
To mark the International Day against Homo-, Bi-, Inter*- and Trans*phobia (IDAHOBIT — May 17th), we are showing the film »XXY« (Spanish with German subtitles, PG 12). Members of the TIAM (Trans-Inter-Aktiv Mitteldeutschland) e.V. project will introduce us to the film and the topic of »Inter*«.
Synopsis: Alex is fifteen years old and lives with their parents by the sea near a small fishing village in Uruguay. The family moved there from Argentina to escape the gossip and hostility of the locals — because Alex is intersexual. Until now, Alex has lived as a girl, but is now considering stopping the hormone medication and letting things take their course. When a surgeon friend comes to visit with his family, new questions arise — above all: is Alvaro, the guests' sixteen-year-old son, perhaps a candidate for the first time? But even on this remote stretch of coast, rumours soon spread...
Trailer:
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Date: Friday, 17 May 2024
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Language: Spanish with German subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
»ANASTASIA« (2022)
Today we are showing the film »ANASTASIA« (Russian with English subtitles, 27 min), which was shortlisted for the Oscar 2023 in the category »Best Documentary Short Film«, in cooperation with the Initiative Group of Anti-War Russians in Thuringia. Afterwards there will be a discussion/Q&A with the Russian civil rights activist and protagonist of the film Anastasia Shevchenko. Subsequently, interested guests can take part in a campaign to write letters to political prisoners in Russian prisons.
Synopsis: »Russian civil rights activist Anastasia Shevchenko has faced strong repercussions for speaking out against her government. She endured house arrest for two years, and became the first person found guilty of “organizing activity of an undesirable organization” by a Russian court, for her work with the Open Russia movement. Amnesty International declared her a “prisoner of conscience.”
While Anastasia was under arrest, her teenage daughter Alina was hospitalized and died alone, becoming an early example of the Russian regime’s willingness to use the separation of parents and children as a way to silence dissent. This intentional rupture of the parental bond is a denial of the elemental human right to care for our children.
The spiritual and emotional burden that Anastasia carries makes her determination even more remarkable, as she continues to raise her two other children. One morning she gathers them and her elderly mother and takes a train across Russia to the Black Sea, a journey that this intimate story captures with poetic visual grace. Against the bright horizon, they come to terms with the family’s loss, and Anastasia realizes the only way she can continue to fight is to leave her homeland.« (Distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Date: Saturday, 18 May 2024
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, Haus F)
Language: Russian with English subtitles
FREE ADMISSION
»IO CAPITANO« (I/B 2023)
On the occasion of the 2024 Diversity Day (May 28th) we are showing the film »IO CAPITANO« (Wolof and French with German subtitles), in cooperation with Kommunales Kino im »mon ami«:
Synopsis: »Seydou and Moussa live in Senegal and share a dream: the two teenagers want to live in Europe and become famous as musicians. Their desire, along with the prospect of a better life, is so great that one day they throw all warnings to the wind and set off for Italy full of adventure. But their journey is not the road trip they had imagined. The journey through the desert, the Libyan prisons and even the sea crossing turn out to be life-threatening. The two friends not only have to fight for their dream, but also for their survival...
›IO CAPITANO‹ accompanies the two friends Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) on an incredible odyssey from Senegal to Europe. Inspired by true accounts, award-winning director Matteo Garrone (›GOMORRAH‹, ›PINOCCHIO‹) uses epic images to tell the part of the story we should know.
›IO CAPITANO‹ celebrated its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, where it was honoured with the Silver Lion for ›Best Director‹ (Matteo Garrone). The film was also nominated for the European Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards and an Oscar.« (Translation of distributor's announcement text)
Trailer:
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Date: Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Kommunales Kino im »mon ami« (Goetheplatz 11, 99423 Weimar)
Language: Wolof and French with German subtitles
FREE ADMISSION FOR MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES OF THE BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITÄT WEIMAR
(Show your Thoska on entry — free choice of seats while supplies last)
Open Air Cinema:
»PASSAGES« (F 2023)
On the occasion of the 2024 »Campus Pride Week« (Monday, 17 June, to Sunday, 23 June), we invite you to an open-air-screening of the film »PASSAGES« (English and French with German subtitles, PG 16), in cooperation with the CSD Weimar.
Synopsis: »PASSAGES« takes an honest, fresh and seductive look at the chaos of modern relationships, with a prominent cast featuring shooting stars of European cinema, Franz Rogowski (»Great Freedom«), Ben Whishaw (»The Pronunciation«) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (»Blue is a Warm Color«).
Tomas (Rogowski) and Martin (Whishaw) have been happily married for years. At the closing party for the shooting of his new film in Paris, Tomas meets the young primary school teacher Agathe (Exarchopoulos), with whom he begins a torrid affair. Regardless of his husband, Tomas plunges into an exciting new world. But the allure of the new fades over time. When Martin finally starts an affair of his own, Tomas is confronted with tough life decisions that he can't — or doesn't want to — deal with.
»PASSAGES« is set in contemporary Paris and depicts an escalating battle of desire between three people, characterized by passion, jealousy and narcissism. Desire is the constant, happiness seems unattainable. There is little sense of each other's needs. In extraordinary images, sensitive and shamelessly sexy, director Ira Sachs creates a breathtakingly intimate and revealing drama that explores the complexities, contradictions and cruelties of love and desire — thanks in large part to the honest, emotionally nuanced portrayal of his characters.
Trailer:
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Film start: ca. 10:15 PM
Location: Lawn in front of the Van-de-Velde-Building (Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 7)
Language: Original language version in English and (some) French with German subtitles
Further info:
- In case of bad weather, the film screening will take place in the Audimax (Steubenstr. 6, House F). Updates can be found here or on the Instagram page of the Equal Opportunity Office and the Diversity Department.
- To make it more comfortable: Please bring your own blankets, towels, folding chairs or similar.
- The student café S140 (Haus der Studierenden — M18, Marienstr. 18) will be open before and during the film screening. Guests can purchase drinks at the »QueerBar.«
The event is presented with the kind support of the Lichthaus Kino Weimar.
FREE ADMISSION
Here you can find the previous events from the »Equity@Bauhaus« series.