Tamara Gupper
PhD Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology | Computer Scientist in the making | Humanoid Robotics and AI | she/her
Panels, Presentations and Talks
Upcoming
Afrika-Kolloquium, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, 14.11.2024
Materielle Kultur im Roboterfußball - Wie humanoide Objekte zu Fußballspieler*innen werden
Kolloquium des Fachgebiets Arbeit, Inklusion und Technologie, Technische Universtität Dortmund, 19.11.2024
Humanoid Robots on the Soccer Field - The Relations between Humans and “Autonomous” Technologies
Organized Panels and Roundtables
Umstrittenes Wissen/ Contested Knowledge: Ethnologische Perspektiven, Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Munich, July 2023
Roundtable Trading Safety for Knowledge? Perspectives on Risks and Well-being in Fieldwork with The Safer Fieldwork Project
Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, online, June 2022
Panel Addressing the Humans behind AI and Robotics
Africa Challenges, Conference of the Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland, online, June 2021
Panel The Impact of Mobile Technologies on Social Structures in Africa, with Dr. Roos Keja
Presentations at Conferences
Promovierendenforum der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Bad Honnef, April 2024
Poster Presentation The Safer Fieldwork Project
MEGA Seminar 2023, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Sønderborg, August 2023
Collaborating on ‘Good’ Data in a Competitive Research Environment in the panel “Good data / Data for good?”
Promovierendenforum der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Berlin, April 2023
Künstliche Wesen. Konzepte von Natur und Kultur in Narrativen rund um KI und humanoide Robotik
KI Camp 2023, Berlin and online, March and April 2023
Relations and beyond, Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi, March 2023
Human-Technology Relations in Coding Processes: Using Postphenomenology to Analyze Algorithmic Systems in the panel “Algorithmic (re)configurations”
stshub, Aachen, March 2023
Testing to Circulate. Addressing the Epistemic Gaps of Software Testing in the panel “Testing as a research object in STS. Transdisciplinary perspectives on testal translation chains”, with Anja Klein, Libuše Hannah Vepřek, Mace Ojala, Rebecca Carlson and Sarah Thanner, members of the Code Ethnography Collective
NordiCHI 2022, Aarhus, October 2022
Visible - Uncertain - Invisible. Reflections on Team Communication Flows in Digitally Mediated Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Paper Session “Studies and Methods”
Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society, Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, online, June 2022
Coding as a Methodological Approach for Researching Programming Practices in the panel “Programming Anthropology: Coding and Culture in the Age of AI”
STS Conference Graz 2022, Graz, May 2022
Addressing “the Other” in Man vs. Machine Matches – Aspects of Gender in the Development of Software for Humanoid Soccer Robots in the panel “Rethinking digitalization technologies through feminist approaches”
KI und Wir Convention, online, October 2021
A Matter of Perspective – AI as an Understandable and Malleable Technology in the panel “Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die KI-Forschung”
Welten. Zonen. Atmosphären. Seismographien des Anthropozäns, Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Bremen, September 2021
Computeranwendungen in der Ethnologie - Für eine Diskussion der möglichen Konsequenzen nicht sichtbarer Abläufe in the panel “Digitalität in der ethnographischen Praxis. Kommunikationsmedien, Forschungsdaten, Software”
Das Ende der Aushandlungen?, Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Konstanz, October 2019
Political activists’ use of smartphones: The role of smartphones in the process of (re-)negotiating political issues in Senegal in the panel “Making things political: Political anthropology meets STS in the Global South”
Das Ende der Aushandlungen?, Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Konstanz, October 2019
Anonymization in the university curriculum: Are future anthropologists being prepared for the ethical and methodological aspects of anonymization? at the roundtable “(Re-)negotiating anonymity in ethnographic research”
Invited Talks and Guest Lectures
Lecture at the PhD Theory Course of the Linz School of Education, Linz, Austria, March 2024
Learning to Program Humanoid Robots
Research Network for the Anthropology of Technology (Antech), Aarhus University, May 2023
On Human-Technology Relations in the Development of Software for Humanoid Robots
Organization and Economy Researcher Group (OREO), Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, May 2023
The Materialization of Social Structures in Software
Alumni Day 2021, ANEF (Alumni-Netzwerk des Instituts für Ethnologie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), October 2021
Discussant in the panel discussion Digital Natives
Africa Colloquium, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, February 2020
“Tout ce que je fais, c’est avec mon smartphone” - Wie senegalesische Aktivist*innen ihre Smartphones im Rahmen ihres Engagements nutzen
Presentations at Popular Scientific Events
Generationsgerechte Digitalisierung, Tagung der Jungen Gesellschaft für Informatik und der Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, August 2022
Der Digital Divide - Digitalisierung und Ungleichheiten
Pflegeroboter - Können wir die “Pflegekrise” durch Technologie lösen?
Summer School 2022, organized by members of the Mastodon instance scholar.social, online, July 2022
Representations of AI. Why we need to do better
Children’s University, Familienakademie, Kathinka Platzhoff Stiftung, Hanau, April 2022
Wie funktionieren eigentlich Roboter; for more information see my blog post here
Summer School 2021, organized by members of the Mastodon instance scholar.social, online, August 2021
On Artificial Intelligence