CIRCT Presents

S3 Ep2: Season 3 Episode 2: Mark Lounibos

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.  If you’d like to reach out to Mark, he can be found at  Email: mdlounib@mtu.edu If you’d like to reach out to IPEC, we can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu [https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu [https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu]  Email: ipec@mtu.edu [ipec@mtu.edu]  Website: https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/ [https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/]

S3 Ep1: Season 3 Episode 1: Cassandra Reed-VanDam

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.  If you’d like to reach out to Cassandra, she can be found at  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-reed-vandam-0b552b332/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-reed-vandam-0b552b332/] Email: cmvandam@mtu.edu [cmvandam@mtu.edu] Research: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassandra-Reed-Vandam [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cassandra-Reed-Vandam] If you’d like to reach out to IPEC, we can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu [https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu [https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu]  Email: ipec@mtu.edu [ipec@mtu.edu]  Website: https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/ [https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/]

S2 Ep2: Season 2 Episode 2: Mark Rouleau

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. If you’d like to reach out to Mark, he can be found on  * Email: mdroulea@mtu.edu * Website: https://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/department/faculty/rouleau/ [https://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/department/faculty/rouleau/]  If you’d like to reach out to IPEC, we can be found on * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu [https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu]  * Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu [https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu]  * Email: ipec@mtu.edu  * Website: https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/ [https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/] Mark’s Recent Publications * Ofori, Roland O., and Mark D. Rouleau. “Modeling the Impacts of Floating Seaweeds on Fisheries Sustainability in Ghana.” Marine policy 127 (2021): 104427-. * Rouleau, Mark, and Robert Zupko. “Agent-Based Modeling for Bioenergy Sustainability Assessment.” Landscape and urban planning 188 (2019): 54–63. * Winkler, Richelle L., and Mark D. Rouleau. “Amenities or Disamenities? Estimating the Impacts of Extreme Heat and Wildfire on Domestic US Migration.” Population and environment 42, no. 4 (2021): 622–648. * Helman, Alexander C, Matthew C Kelly, Mark D Rouleau, and Yvette L Dickinson. “Preferences for Northern Hardwood Silviculture among Family Forest Owners in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.” Journal of forestry 119, no. 2 (2021): 113–129. Join a research area: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14M9sRzYCEeSX7NOR92PPuYGpo4uQUqyrjlnMeogwIPw/edit [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14M9sRzYCEeSX7NOR92PPuYGpo4uQUqyrjlnMeogwIPw/edit]  Michigan Technological University, a public research University located in Houghton, Michigan, was founded in 1885 that overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway.

S1 Ep5: Season 2: Episode 1 Alexandra Morrison

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.  If you’d like to reach out to Alexandra, she can be found on  Email: lamorris@mtu.edu  If you’d like to reach out to IPEC, we can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu [https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu [https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu]  Email: ipec@mtu.edu  Website: https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/ [https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/] Alexandra’s Recent Publications • 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 [https://doi.org/10.1177/01447394231191940] • Kate Kirkpatrick’s Becoming Beauvoir: A Life, London, Bloomsbury, 2019, 476 pages, ISBN 9781350168435. Mentioned in the Episode * Lousie Glück: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-gluck [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-gluck]  * Martin Heiddeger: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/ [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/] * Jacques Derrida: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/ [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/]  Join a research area: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14M9sRzYCEeSX7NOR92PPuYGpo4uQUqyrjlnMeogwIPw/edit [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.

S1 Ep4: IPEC Presents Episode 4: Stefka Hristova and Soonkwan Hong

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. If you’d like to reach out to Stefka, she can be found at  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefka-hristova-128381/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefka-hristova-128381/]  Email: shristov@mtu.edu  If you’d like to reach out to Soonkwan, he can be found at Email: shong2@mtu.edu  If you’d like to reach out to IPEC, we can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu [https://www.facebook.com/IPECmtu]  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu [https://twitter.com/ipec_mtu]  Email: ipec@mtu.edu Website: https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/ [https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/] To find research mentioned in this episode * Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life [https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Culture-Artificial-Intelligence-Transforming/dp/1793635730#:~:text=Book%20overview&text=Editorial%20Reviews-,Algorithmic%20Culture%3A%20How%20Big%20Data%20and%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20are%20Transforming,perpetuating%20inequality%20and%20intersectional%20discrimination.] * Critical AI: A Field in Formation, by Rita Raley and Jennifer Rhee [https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/95/2/185/344223/Critical-AI-A-Field-in-Formation] * Critique of Black Reason, Achille Mmembe [https://www.dukeupress.edu/critique-of-black-reason] * “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” by Langdon Winner [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652] * “Society Must be Defended” by Michel Foucault [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312422660/societymustbedefended] Join a research area: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14M9sRzYCEeSX7NOR92PPuYGpo4uQUqyrjlnMeogwIPw/edit [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.