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SUMMARY:Robot Caregivers and Robo-therapy in Japan: Treating the "Trauma" of Aging
DESCRIPTION:After their own children\, elderly Japanese apparently prefer robot caregivers and companions to foreign ones (in the increasingly likely event of a severe shortage of ethnic Japanese nurses and social workers). Robots are perceived by seniors\, and by politicians too\, of eliminating the socio-cultural anxieties provoked by foreign laborers and caregivers.  (And for some right-wing conservatives\, limiting the number of foreigners reinforces a tenacious ideology of ethnic homogeneity.) Already high-tech homes for senior citizens are part of a booming industry\, and specialized robots are being developed to stabilize and even reverse the effects of aging-related dementia and depression.  Moreover\, those promoting the country’s robotization argue that US$21 billion of elderly insurance payments could be saved over the next decade by using robots instead of humans to monitor the health of senior citizens\, who now comprise 25% of the population. Sociable\, interactive robots have also become the primary subjects of a new field of study named “robot psychology” and “robo-therapy.” Robertson’s talk represents a shift in focus from the more usual association of trauma with the consequences of the experience or witnessing of graphic violence. In linking aging to trauma\, she is drawing from Ann Kaplan’s feminist scholarship in which she makes the case for aging as traumatic in the sense of the elderly being as vulnerable to identity crises as are adolescents.\nThis talk is part of the IHC Value of Care series and is co-sponsored by the RFG Reinventing Japan\, the East Asia Center\, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, the Department of History\, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Media Arts and Technology.   \nhm 9/26/13
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SUMMARY:Big Humanities Data
DESCRIPTION:Patrik Svensson is a professor in the Humanities and information technologyand director of HUMlab\, Umeå University. His current research spans\ninformation technology and learning\, research infrastructure\, screen\ncultures and the digital humanities as an emerging field. Apart from having\nmain responsibility for HUMlab\, he is currently heavily involved in Umeå\nUniversity’s new Arts Campus and the creation of a new platform for digital\nmedia\, culture and representation: HUMlab-X. Another prioritized area at\nthis point is strengthening strategic collaboration with selected national\nand international partners.\nhttp://patrik.humlab.umu.se/ \nThis is an important talk for all those interested in the “digital humanities.” \nUCSB student Anne Cong-Huyen visited at HUMlab last year; Lindsay Thomas will be going in December; former students Lisa Swanstrom and Mike Frangos have had postdocs there. \nHosted by the Transcriptions Project. \nhm 11/22/13
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