Today we speak to Mark Lounibos, an assistant teaching professor of the humanities department at Michigan Tech. Enjoy the show!

Mark’s contact information and recent publications will be posted in this episode’s description. To all of our listeners, thank you for joining us for another thought-provoking conversation on all things CIRCT, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Culture and Technology, here at Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI. If you’d like to continue this conversation, our email is also linked in the episode’s description. 

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In this new episode of the podcast, we unveil a new name: CIRCT Presents! IPEC is now CIRCT, he Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Culture and Technology. With that in mind, we have an amazing episode for you today with my dear friend and colleague, Cassandra Reed-VanDam. Enjoy the show!

Cassandra’s contact information and recent publications will be posted in this episode’s description. To all of our listeners, thank you for joining us for another thought-provoking conversation on all things CIRCT, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Culture and Technology, here at Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI. If you’d like to continue this conversation, our email is also linked in the episode’s description. 

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Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassandra-Reed-Vandam

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In this episode of IPEC Presents, we examine our new season’s theme of ethics from a different perspective. Dr. Mark Rouleau brings with him insights from an IPEC-sponsored trip to Brazil. Mark participated in the Summer School on AI technologies for trust, interoperability, autonomy, and resilience in Industry 4.0. The summer school was a one-week hands on training hosted at the University of São Paulo focused on using automation techniques in Multi Agent System (MAS) environments to solve practical industrial problems. Topics covered through this hackathon style training included the following: Web of Things, Knowledge Graphs, Multi Agent Systems, and Responsible and Trustworthy AI.

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Michigan Technological University, a public research University located in Houghton, Michigan, was founded in 1885 that overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway. 

In our new season of IPEC Presents, we contemplate ethics as it relates to interdisciplinary research. Our first guest this season is Dr. Alexandra Morrison, an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities here at Michigan Tech. 

Alexandra is also the Ethics and Philosophy minor Advisor, overseeing undergraduate students from all across campus. Her main research areas include 20th century Continental Philosophy, especially Phenomenology. She also publishes in Feminist Social and Political Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Technology and STEM Ethics pedagogy and is currently working on several interdisciplinary projects in STEM ethics, as well as a manuscript that makes a phenomenologically based critique of recent approaches to an ethics of AI. 

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• L. Marin, A. Morrison, Y. Jalali, C. Voinea. (2024) "Reflective and dialogical approaches in engineering ethics education" The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education, Routledge. Forthcoming.

• Morrison and S. Marratto. (2024) "Values and Objectivity: Phenomenology and the Project of Integrating Science into Democracy" Philosophy and Social Criticism. Forthcoming.

• Morrison, A., Wellstead, A. M., & Dickinson, H. (2023) Reclaiming public service ethics through algorithms: Implications for teaching and development. Teaching Public Administration, Online First Publication March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/01447394231191940

• Kate Kirkpatrick’s Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, London, Bloomsbury, 2019, 476 pages, ISBN 9781350168435.

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Michigan Technological University, a public research University located in Houghton, Michigan, was founded in 1885.  We overlook the Keweenaw Waterway and join in community with the stewards of this land since time immemorial, the Ojibwe peoples. In our co-presence, we carry forward a commitment to listening, to allyship, and to joint stewardship.

Do you love research but don’t have the time to read endless papers and books? Get the latest research — and research insights — from the Institute for Policy, Ethics and Culture at Michigan Tech. Each month IPEC Presents focuses on policy engagement and teaching that addresses ethical and cultural challenges, implications, and strategies relevant to the emerging techno-cultural environment. 

In our fourth episode of IPEC Presents, guests IPEC director Stefka Hristova and associate director Soonkwan Hong discuss how their research relationship has developed over time and spanned university service-related projects, publication collaborations, and research development. Taking a critical perspective on AI and algorithms, we dive deep into the power relations at play in today’s techno cultural environment. Join us for a riveting discussion and learn how, as a general AI user, we can better educate and protect ourselves when interacting with these black box technologies.

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Join a research area: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14M9sRzYCEeSX7NOR92PPuYGpo4uQUqyrjlnMeogwIPw/edit 

Michigan Technological University, a public research University located in Houghton, Michigan, was founded in 1885.  We overlook the Keweenaw Waterway and join in community with the stewards of this land since time immemorial, the Ojibwe peoples. In our co-presence, we carry forward a commitment to listening, to allyship, and to joint stewardship.

Do you love research but don’t have the time to read endless papers and books? Get the latest research — and research insights — from the Institute for Policy, Ethics and Culture at Michigan Tech. Each month IPEC Presents focuses on policy engagement and teaching that addresses ethical and cultural challenges, implications, and strategies relevant to the emerging techno-cultural environment. 

In today’s episode of IPEC Presents, our guest Dr. Jason Archer discusses his vision for the Human Machine Culture research area, which he leads for IPEC. This research area is inviting new members and collaborators to join and work together on exciting new projects and publications. Jason is a scholar whose work bridges the connections between technology and culture, human and machine. In our discussion, we talked about the meaning of human machine culture, and the various uses of the term haptics as it relates to fields of study. Join us for a journey of what it means to be living on the verge of a new sensical revolution: touch. 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-archer-33a240160/

Website: https://jasonearcher.com 

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https://uk.sagepub.com/en-us/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-human–machine-communication/book273648 

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Michigan Technological University, a public research University located in Houghton, Michigan, was founded in 1885.  We overlook the Keweenaw Waterway and join in community with the stewards of this land since time immemorial, the Ojibwe peoples. In our co-presence, we carry forward a commitment to listening, to allyship, and to joint stewardship.

Welcome to IPEC Presents! Our podcast features research from the Institute for Policy, Ethics and Culture at Michigan Tech, a public research university in Houghton, MI. I’m your host, Kendall Belopavlovich, and each episode of IPEC Presents is dedicated to discussing the research our institute conducts in service of policy implication, ethical considerations and cultural significance of the massive changes and disruptive forces underway in our world. 

In today’s episode of IPEC Presents, our guest Libby Meyer discusses her work as a composer, her guilty pleasure musical choices, and what it means to co-create with the world around us. Libby is a dynamic, insightful and well-rounded artist whose perspective on the world inspires us to deepen our relationships--and to liberate our idea of stealing to create. We are excited to announce Libby’s upcoming event: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a Guerilla Opera, October 12-15 at the MacArdle Theater. For more information on this event, please visit https://events.mtu.edu/event/rozsa-guerillaopera. 

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Welcome to IPEC Presents! Our podcast features research from the Institute for Policy, Ethics and Culture at Michigan Tech, a public research university in Houghton, MI. Each episode of IPEC Presents is dedicated to discussing the research our institute conducts in service of policy engagement, and teaching that address the ethical and cultural challenges, implication, and strategies unique to the emerging techno cultural environment. 

Michigan Technological University was founded in 1885. We overlook the Keweenaw Waterway and join in community with the stewards of this land since time immemorial, the Ojibwa peoples. In our co-presence, we carry forward a commitment to listening, to allyship, and to joint stewardship.

In today’s (first ever!) episode of IPEC Presents, our guest Dr. Richard Canevez discusses his rising academic career and research as an executive committee member and research area lead. Rich is a multi-talented professional whose expertise draws on multiple disciplinary backgrounds, including philosophy, information sciences and technology, artificial intelligence, and communication.

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The mission of the Institute for Policy, Ethics, and Culture is to promote research, policy engagement, and teaching that address the ethical and cultural challenges, implications, and strategies unique to the emerging techno cultural environment. Michigan Technological University is a flagship public research university founded in 1885. We overlook the Keweenaw Waterway and join in community with the stewards of this land since time immemorial, the Ojibwa peoples. In our co-presence, we carry forward a commitment to listening, to allyship, and to joint stewardship.