Event Category: Lunch Seminars Fall 2026
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Sep 24Lunch Seminar: When the Machine Says It Isn’t Sure: Uncertainty and Accountability in Large Language Models
Martin Eiermann
8411 Social Sciences
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Oct 22Lunch Seminar: Revisiting ‘Professional Guinea Pigs’: Over-volunteering, Registries and Regulatory Cultures in Clinical Trials Research
Roberto Abadie
8411 Social Sciences
Based on an ethnography of human volunteers making a living by participating in phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia, this talk revisits the role of registries in preventing over-volunteering (more than one trial at a time or enrollment without respecting the “wash out period”) and limiting exploitation and reducing risk exposure among professional subjects. In …
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Nov 5Lunch Seminar: Million Dollar Babies: Premature Birth, Neonatal Intensive Care, and the Economization of Public Health
Sadie Bergen
8411 Social Sciences
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Nov 19Lunch Seminar: Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination
Tomás Dodds
8411 Social Sciences