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SUMMARY:DH Workshop with Patricia Murrieta-Flores: Towards the Development of Decolonial Technologies
DESCRIPTION:\nThis workshop explores what it would mean to design 
 decolonial technologies at a moment when artificial intelligence is rapidly 
 reshaping how knowledge is produced\, circulated\, and valued. \n\nThe 
 opening lecture will trace a short history of AI\, from early expert 
 systems to current large language models\, and examine how these systems 
 are built on deeply uneven infrastructures: training data that 
 overwhelmingly represent the Global North\, opaque pipelines of extraction 
 from archives and the web\, and technical choices that can erase or 
 misrepresent Indigenous and marginalised voices. It will unpack concrete 
 examples of bias and harm in generative AI\, and connect them to longer 
 histories of colonial knowledge-making and control. \n\nThe second part of 
 the session invites participants into a guided reflection and practical 
 exercise on “designing otherwise.” Working in small groups\, attendees 
 will map out one real or imagined technology such as an app\, a dataset\, a 
 model\, or a workflow\, and systematically re‑think it through decolonial 
 lenses: whose knowledge is included or excluded\, who controls data and 
 infrastructure\, what communities benefit or bear risks\, and what forms of 
 accountability and reciprocity are built in. Drawing on experiences from AI 
 work with Latin American and Indigenous archives\, the workshop will offer 
 prompts and simple frameworks that participants can take back to their own 
 projects\, with the aim of turning critical awareness of AI’s problems 
 into concrete principles for building more just\, situated\, and 
 community‑anchored technologies. \n\nA historical archaeologist\, 
 Patricia Murrieta-Flores is a Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities 
 and Artificial Intelligence at Tecnológico de Monterrey in México\, and a 
 Chair Professor at the History Department at Lancaster University\, United 
 Kingdom. She is an international reference in the application of artificial 
 intelligence for the analysis of colonial history and cultural heritage. 
 She has led multiple high-impact research projects funded by organizations 
 such as the ESRC\, AHRC\, NEH\, CONACyT\, and Schmidt Sciences\, 
 consolidating more than 20 international grants. She is a member of the 
 Royal Historical Society and has held global leadership positions\, 
 including Secretary of the Executive Board of ADHO. Her work has been 
 recognized with international awards and more than 70 publications in 
 high-impact scientific journals. In addition\, she advises top-tier 
 institutions such as multiple international research councils\, the Science 
 Museum in London\, and major research infrastructures across Europe.  
 \n\nThis event is brought to you by the UVA Library DH Center\, in 
 co-sponsorship with the Institute for the Arts & Humanities. It is free and 
 open to all\, but registration is required to reserve your seat.\n
LOCATION:Scholars' Lab Common Room (Rm 308)\, Shannon Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Miller":MAILTO:lam2c@virginia.edu
CATEGORIES:Digital Humanities, Scholars' Lab
CONTACT;CN="Laura Miller":MAILTO:lam2c@virginia.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/events/DHWorkshopMurrieta
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