Drobnjak, Marko, lecture at the Phonology Lab, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Washington, November 19, 2019: This talk explored the connection between forensic linguistics and speech perception from both legal and linguistics perspective. The talk was focused on exploring implicit biases against dialectal features of individuals involved in legal process. Linguistic markers of socioeconomic status and ethnicity have been shown to affect outcomes in the legal process with comparatively less work conducted on the question of dialectal features. We set out to test whether dialectal features affect credibility of witness in court. Experiments will be conducted on Slovenian, a language with high degree of dialectal variability spoken in a country with one of lowest income inequality of OECD.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2180430Završnik Aleš made a contribution at the 12th Conference of Criminal Law and Criminology, Portorož, Grand Hotel Bernardin, December 3 and 4, 2019. First, he presented contemporary types of autonomous vehicles, and in particular the degrees of autonomy according to the classification of The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). He then presented ethical theories that may come in handy in the design of autonomous vehicles and an experimental platform Moral Machine (MIT) for measuring ethics. He then outlined the relevant parts of the German Code of Ethics for autonomous and connected driving and outlined the efforts of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) of the Council of Europe. The latter identified several criminal legal issues, i.e. relating to substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law, mutual legal assistance and criminal enforcement law.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2162766Salecl, Renata, talk at the Annual symposium for adult education 2019, 19 and 20 November 2019, Portorož: When we hear the term “knowledge-based economy,” the first impression is often that the new technologies on which this economy relies contribute to an increase of what is known. Scholars in the domain of management studies have, however, pointed out that the “knowledge economy” should rather be called an “ignorance economy,” since it relies heavily on the creation and strategic exploitation of gaps in knowledge. On the one hand, the knowledge economy very much relies on the way knowledge is restricted, patented, packaged, and compartmentalized. On the other hand, the sophisticated technologies that the knowledge economy exploits make it difficult for people to understand how these technologies work. The lecture looked at how AI and other forms of new technologies that users rely upon in today's times and increasing ignorance and how they are creating new types of social divisons between those who have access to them and those who do not.
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