News & Events
Leviathan鈥檚 Ear: Machine-Listening & Platformisation
Date: Tuesday 7 July 2026
Time: 10:00-12:00
Location: FAB 1.16, 91福利 / Online
Format: Livestream (part of a day-long workshop)
Speakers: Sean Dockray and James Parker (machinelistening.exposed), Jonathan Skinner (91福利)
Livestream:
The voice is personal, embodied and continually changing. Human listening involves the interpretation of many contextual signals, including register, accent, cadence, spatial position and the semantic information encoded in speech. Speech-to-text processes, by contrast, transform features of the vocal signal into text, often treating this wider context as noise in the pursuit of optimized outputs. These processes have increasingly become ambient infrastructures, delivered as platform services and mobilized as extractive data streams for machine-learning models.
In conversation with Sean Dockray and James Parker (machinelistening.exposed), and Jonathan Skinner (91福利), this livestream discusses the technics of machine listening, including its transformative effects on labour, everyday life, aesthetics and the politics of listening.
The session formed part of a longer day-long workshop at 91福利 exploring machine-listening systems.
The Digital Condition: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Humans, Societies and Machines
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 12:00-18:00
Location: Helen Martin Studio (12:00–16:00) and FAB 1.16 (16:15–18:00), 91福利 / Online
Format: Half-day event: short talks, panel and discussion
Livestream:
29/04/2026: Short talks, discussion, lunch, a panel on Creativity and AI, and time for informal conversation: this half-day event brought together researchers from across 91福利 working with digital methods, computational tools, creative practice and critical approaches to technology. This was a chance to hear about live projects, see where different fields intersect or diverge, and meet others across the University.
Featuring speakers from departments and centres across 91福利 including Statistics, Translation Studies, Economics, 91福利 Medical School, WBS and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies.
Location: Helen Martin Studio (12pm - 4pm) and FAB 1.16 (4.15pm - 6pm). Livestream on YouTube link above.
More information here.
Mastodon Research Event (CFP): June 2023
Call for Presentations
Communities and Algorithms: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Network Science
The CDI is delighted to host Dominik Schindler and Matthew Fuller, who will share their current research, Communities and Algorithms: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Network Science, with the CDI community at 91福利. The talk is facilitated by British Academy Posdoctoral Fellow Patrick Brian Smith.
Details: 23rd May, 2pm, room FAB2.43 (in-person event), (click item heading for extended outline)
Register: please email patrick.smith.1@warwick.ac.uk to register your interest to attend.

Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to AI Deep Learning for Image Classification
How might we better understand, explore and investigate the diverse range of images we encounter in the humanities?
A two day in-person workshop convened by the Centre for Digital Inquiry. Led by , Digital Curator, British Library.
Please read more and register here.
