I2SC Lecture Series

The Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing offers a regular Lecture Series to bring together researchers of different academic fields to analyze and discuss the broad topic of society and technology. The Lecture Series is designed as a laboratory of interdisciplinary research to encourage cooperation and new research approaches. The series will feature a mix of speakers from Computer  Science, Social Science, and Digital Humanities.

November 8, 2024

Cornelius König (Psychology, Saarland University), Pitfalls, Challenges, and Benefits of Interdisciplinary Research: Reflections from a Psychologist Collaborating with Computer Scientists for Over a Decade

November 15, 2024 

Elisa Omodei (Network and Data Science, Wien), Linking survey and social media data to study political polarization

November 29, 2024

Marten Düring (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)), Machine Learning to Link Historical Media Collections

December 13, 2024

David Garcia (Computer Science, Konstanz), Language Understanding as a Constraint on Consensus Size in LLM Societies

January 10, 2025

TBD

January 24, 2025

Kiran Garimella (Computer Science, Rutgers University), Misinformation and Hate speech on WhatsApp - Insights from a large-scale data donation study

February 7, 2025

Diana Sanz Roig (Computational Literary Studies, Barcelona), TBD

The Lecture Series is in building E1 7, Room 3.23, on the campus of Saarland University from 12h-13h.  

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Program

More details about the talks coming soon!