Dear colleagues, It's my pleasure to invite you to the 'Queering Big Data, Algorithms & AI' event organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Manchester. It'll take place on the 24th of January 2024 in the Samuel Alexander building, room A101, between 4pm and 6pm. This event will only take place in person. Please, register if you plan to attend: https://forms.gle/wfgbqDcZw6LK9WBy6 The schedule for the event is as follows: Queering Big Data, Algorithms & AI Organiser & Chair: Dr Łukasz Szulc (University of Manchester, UK) Panel presentations: The New Normative: AI, Norms and Queer Anti-Normativity Dr Daniella Gati (University of Salford, UK) ‘Big Data See through You’: Sexual Identifications in an Age of Algorithmic Recommendation Dr Shuaishuai Wang (University of Manchester, UK) Professor Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Can I be Queer in Wikidata? Representing Queer Identities in a Collaborative Knowledge Base Dr Daniele Metilli (University College London, UK) Beatrice Melis (University of Pisa & Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Chiara Paolini (KU Leuven, Belgium) Marta Fioravanti (oio.studio, UK) Respondent: Dr Sophie Bishop (University of Leeds, UK) Hope to see many of you there! Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349 (2022) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117 (2022) A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/276/6556263 (2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396