Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology

Presentations and science communication

Presentations

Hybride Horizonte: Eine kritisch-konstruktive Analyse der Verhandlung von Vertrauen in Mensch–KI–Relationen am Beispiel von Human Computation Systemen. Invited talk at the Institute of Cultural Analysis / European Ethnology, Freiburg im Breisgau, June 6, 2024.
Investigating Human–AI Systems: A Cultural Anthropological Perspective. Invited talk at the Department of Information Sciences and Arts, Toyo University, Tokyo, May 21, 2024.
Epistemic Leakages in Citizen Science. Presentation at the LEAKAGE Inaugural Conference of stsing, Dresden, March 21, 2024.
Bareither, Christoph; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: Human-ML Assemblages in the Sciences. Approaches from Digital Anthropology & STS. Presentation at the 5th conference of the Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning for Science 2023, University of Tübingen, July 11–12, 2023.
Das verteilte Labor: Rekonfigurationen biomedizinischer Arbeitspraktiken im Rahmen digitaler Citizen Science. Presentation at the 30. Conference of the „Österreichische Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Volkskunde (ÖGEKW)“ on "Alltage und Kultur/en der Digitalität", Klagenfurt, May 19, 2023.
Klein, Anja; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah; Ojala, Mace; Carlson, Rebecca; Thanner, Sarah; Gupper, Tamara; and the Code Ethnography Collective (CECO): “Testing to circulate. Addressing the Epistemic Gaps of Software Testing.” Presentation at the STS-hub 2023 on “Circulations”, Aachen, Germany, March 17, 2023.
Vepřek, Libuše Hannah, Thanner, Sarah, Franken, Lina: “Computercode und Algorithmen in ethnografischer Forschung. Begegnungen in unterschiedlichen Dimensionen.” Presentation at the lecture series „Digital(ität) ethnografieren? Methoden für den digitalen Alltag“ of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, January 11, 2023.
How to study Human Computation Systems in Cultural and Media Anthropology? Presentation at Department of Information Sciences and Arts, Toyo University, Tokyo, December 13, 2023.
Infrastructuring desirable futures with humans in the loop. Analyzing human computation as a counter-imaginary to artificial general intelligence. Presentation at the 8th International Working Conference of the Digital Anthropology Commission “Digital Futures in the Making: Imaginaries, Politics, and Materialities“, Hamburg, September 15, 2022. 
An den Grenzen der Künstlichen Intelligenz: Intravertierende Mensch–Software-Relationen in Human Computation Systems. Presentation at the lecture series of the Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, “Aktuelle Forschungen – (Neue) Themen der Kulturwissenschaft: KI und Gesellschaft“, Tübingen, July 21, 2022.
Inversions of Human-Machine Relations in Human Computation Systems. Presentation at the EASST 2022 Conference, Madrid, July 8, 2022.
Carlson, Rebecca; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: At the “hinge” of future fictions and everyday failings: Ethnographic interventions in AI systems. Presentation at the RAI2022 conference “Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society,“ Online 6.6.2022.
Assembling Spheres: Aligning human computation systems in Citizen science.” Poster presentation at the Engaging Citizen Science Conference, Aarhus University, April 25, 2022.
Thanner, Sarah; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: „Imaginieren – Intraagieren – (Re-)konfigurieren: Mensch–Technologie-Relationen im Werden.“ Presentation at the 43rd Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft „Zeit. Zur Temporalität von Kultur,” Regensburg, online, April 6, 2022.
Between means and ends: Data infrastructures in biomedical research. Presentation at the Mobilizing Methods in Medical Anthropology Conference 2022 (RAIMed2022), online, January 18, 2022.
Hybride Intelligenzen der Zukunft: Mensch-Maschine Zusammenwirken in Human Computation Systemen. Presentation at the lecture series of the Institute für European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis 2021/22, Zukünfte: Felder – Aushandlungen – Perspektiven des Instituts für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie, LMU Munich, online, November 11, 2021.
Multiplicities of meanings: Citizen science between knowledge production, gameplay and coping with everyday life. Presentation at the SIEF Conference 2021, “Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression,” Helsinki, online, June 22, 2021.
Playing in the loop. New Human-Computer-Relations in Human Computation Systems and their Impacts on the Spheres of Everyday Life.” Presentation at the Media & Digital Eth-nography Lab (MeDiA Lab), online, January 27, 2021.
Spielend in the loop. Neue Mensch-Software Relationen in Human Computation Systemen und deren Auswirkungen auf Sphären des Alltags. Guest lecture at the Lecture “Playing Video Games. Grundlagen einer Ethnologie des Spiels am Seminar für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte“, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Online, January 6, 2021.
Bringing the subject into focus in large scale textual data analysis. Presentation at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) Conference 2020, online, October 1, 2020.
Ethics and Morality in Scientific Research – The Special Case of Citizen Science.” Presentation at the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) Conference 2020, Online, September 11, 2020.
Problematisierung der Deutungshoheit über den Raum – ein ewiger ‚Kampf‘: Aushandlungen des Erinnerns sowie des Umgangs mit der KZ-Vergangenheit in Ludwigsfeld, München. Presentation in the context of the lecture “Einführung in die kulturwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung. Gedenkstätten, Museen, Populäre Kultur” at the Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich, November 11, 2019.
“Stattpark Olga“: An alternative way of dwelling as a critique of the (rental) housing logic. Presentation at the SIEF Conference 2017 Ways of Dwelling, Göttingen, Germany, March 28, 2017.

Organization of conferences, panels, and workshops

Amelang, Katrin; Eckhardt, Dennis; Eggel, Ruth Dorothea; Huszka, Victoria; Tischberger, Roman;  Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Digitales Feldnotieren. Podiumsdiskussion zum ethnografischen Schreiben, Dokumentieren, Annotieren und Lokalisieren im Digitalen.” Roundtable at the conference “Digital Methods and Data in Ethnography and Qualitative Research," Vechta, September 17, 2024.
Eckhardt, Dennis; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Developing co-laborative methods for digital transformations.” Panel at the 2024 EASST/4S conference “making and doing transformations”, Amsterdam, July 16, 2024.
Moser, Johannes; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Perspectives on Hybrid Human–AI Systems. Bringing together interdisciplinary approaches.” Workshop funded by the German Research Foundation and  Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Munich, April 10–12, 2024.
Moser, Johannes; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Formen. Öffentliche Diskurse um neue Technologien und die Rolle der Empirischen Kulturwissenschaft.” Workshop funded by the German Research Foundation, Munich, February 15–16, 2023.
Carlson, Rebecca; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Un/Settling Objects of Knowledge in The Biomedical Sciences.” Roundtable at the 2022 AAA Annual Meeting “Unsettling Landscapes,” Seattle, WA and online,  November 9, 2023.
Franken, Lina; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Envisioning Coded Futures: Algorithmically shaped presents and futures of human-machine-relationships.” Panel at the EASST 2022 Conference, Madrid, July 8, 2022.
Carlson, Rebecca; Eggel, Ruth Dorothea; Franken, Lina; Thanner, Sarah; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Methodologies for code in ethnographic research. From theory to practice.” Workshop, online, July 2-3, 2022.
Carlson, Rebecca; Eggel, Ruth Dorothea; Franken, Lina; Thanner, Sarah; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Methodologies for code in ethnographic research. From theory to practice.” Workshop, online, July 2-3, 2022.
Dippel, Anne; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Engage! How to study knowledge (dis)ruptions in/through science - from citizens to science to citizen science.” Panel at the SIEF Conference 2021, Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation, Transgression, Helsinki, online, June 22, 2021.
Kunzelmann, Daniel; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah: “Approaching Code Methodologically – Or: How Can we Explore the Language(s) of the Digital from the Perspective of Cultural Anthropology?” Workshop at the conference of the commission “Digitization in Everyday Life” of the German Society of Folklore (DGV) 2020 Digital Truth-Making: Ethnographic Perspectives on Practices, Infrastructures and Affordances of Truth-Making in Digital Societies, online, October 7, 2020.
Michelucci, Pietro and Vepřek, Libuše: “Toward Reinventing IRB for Citizen Science.” Side event at the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) Conference 2020, online, September 11, 2020.

Public Engagement

Vepřek, Libuše Hannah; Wajsberg, Mirjam: „Heimatlose Ausländer“ - Exploring a ‚Forgotten‘ Legal Category. In: Transformations. A new voice on culture, politics and change, June 15, 2021.
Schnittraum/ Interface. In: Digitalisierung im Alltag, April 1, 2020. URL: https://digitaleanthropologie.de/schnittraum-interface/.
Citizen Scientists Wanted! In the Fight Against the Coronavirus. In: Transformations. A new voice on culture, politics and change, April 1, 2020.

Current and former positions

Erasmus coordinator at the Ludwig Uhland Institute of Historical and Cultural Analysis, University of Tübingen (since October 2023)
Speaker of the DGEKW [German Society for Cultural Anthropology] commission “Digital Anthropology“ (since September 2022)
Member of the Ständiger Ausschuss für Forschungsethik und Forschungsdaten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) (since 2021)

 

Events and exhibitions

Michelucci, Pietro; Vepřek, Libuše Hannah; Gusman, Lisa; Lane, Margaret: “Hybrid Intelligence Hackathon for Alzheimer’s Research.” Hackathon at the Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2023 conference, June 26, 2023, Munich.
Exhibition “München-Ludwigsfeld: Dorf – KZ-Außenlager – Stadtviertel“ (“Village – concentration camp – city neighbourhood”) at the Evangelisches Bildungswerk München e.V., Munich, May to July 2019.

 

Academic Memberships

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW)
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
Münchner Vereinigung für Volkskunde (MVV)
Kommission Digitale Anthropologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW)
Cultural anthropological network "Alltag und Technik", University of Klagenfurt