On February 24, 2022, Russian troops entered Ukraine. Many Russian cultural media condemned the military aggression, publishing similar statements on their websites and social media about the incompatibility of culture with violence and war. However, the tightening of censorship and criminalization of public denunciation of the war and criticism of Putin's regime have brought about changes in cultural journalism as well. Those media that continued to write about the war (Colta.ru, Syg.ma, Discours.io) were blocked in Russia. Others, willing to continue their reflection on actual topics, have mastered the "Aesopian language" and the art of historical analogies, seemingly forgotten since Soviet times (Kommersant-Weekend, Gorky.media). The war also exposed the colonial nature of the Russian political system, which led to the creation of new oppositional cultural media by researchers and journalists who had left Russia, adopting the discourses of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory. All these processes, however, will become clearer against the background of a broader panorama of transformations of cultural journalism in the context of Vladimir Putin's 3rd and 4th presidential terms, including its politicization in the early 2010s and the "educational turn" that followed the conservative turn in Kremlin politics and the instrumentalization of cultural canons by the regime. This lecture will discuss these transformations and the political aspects of Russian cultural journalism.

Carlo Maiolini, program manager at MUSE – Science Museum (Trento, Italy), will present the design and development of the museum Science & Humanities program. The talk will review three years in the making of the program from its birth to actual date, highlighting ratios and connections with MUSE decision to address the Anthoropocene theme in its mission.

As part of the „Career Paths“ discussion format, graduates from the University of Klagenfurt will talk about their studies, their career entry and their successes in a relaxed atmosphere. After the panel discussion, students and recent graduates can ask questions and make important contacts at a final get-together.This edition of Career Paths focuses on professions in the field of artificial intelligence. This edition will be held in English.

In many countries across the globe, the public sector is expanding its efforts to introduce data-driven and intelligent systems in the administration of core welfare services such as social benefits provision, unemployment services and healthcare. Critical data studies and adjacent fields have raised concerns that datafication as a social and political process mainly caters to commercial and governance interests. The risks of automation in welfare have primarily been discussed as “black-boxing” (i.e. algorithmic assessments of welfare applicants rest widely inaccessible and unexplainable for case workers and citizens alike), as fundamentally problematic practices of profiling and categorizing citizens (which limits their life experience to what is observable and quantifiable, omitting the complexity of their life situations), and in terms of biased and discriminatory outcomes for protected groups in vulnerable life situations.