Ines Caloisi

06/11/2026

🌍 Beyond AI: Building a Culture of Responsibility for Social Transformation

On 12 November 2026, I will have the pleasure of speaking at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina), at an international event organised by the Faculty of Psychology and Fundación LINED.

My contribution will focus on a question that is becoming increasingly central to our societies:

How can we move beyond the debate on responsible Artificial Intelligence towards building a broader Culture of Responsibility?

Artificial Intelligence is transforming our institutions, relationships and decision-making processes. Yet technological innovation alone cannot guarantee meaningful social transformation.

We need to rethink responsibility as a cultural, collective and shared practice, capable of connecting ethics, human agency, gender perspectives and social change.

This is also the vision behind RESC – Responsibility Culture, an initiative I am developing to explore how responsibility can become a concrete driver of social transformation across different cultural and institutional contexts.

I am particularly pleased to bring this reflection to Argentina, creating new opportunities for academic dialogue and international collaboration between Europe and Latin America.

📍 Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata – Faculty of Psychology

📅 12 November 2026 | 10:00 AM

🎤 Presentation in Italian, with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.

Responsibility is not simply about managing the consequences of innovation. It is about shaping the culture that guides our choices.

29/09/2026

Responsibility is shaped by culture. The conversation about it should cross languages, too.

The RESC – Responsibility Culture website is now available in 18 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili and Turkish.

RESC brings together reflections on responsibility, AI and society, gender equality, culture and social transformation. We hope that making the site accessible in more languages will open the conversation to more people and perspectives.

Explore RESC in your language: https://resc-responsibilityculture.com

Promoting a new ethic of responsibility, democratic accountability and human-centered governance.

23/09/2026

How can cultural and creative organisations make sustainability part of their everyday decisions? And what skills will people need to make that change possible?
I’m pleased to join the CreaSus Final Conference in Brussels on 28 September 2026, following an invitation from ENCATC.
I will contribute to the panel “Building tomorrow’s skills: Academia, training and sector needs”, which brings together research, education and professional practice to explore the skills cultural and creative sectors will need in the coming years.
I’m particularly interested in the role of organisational culture and responsibility: how we move from a commitment to sustainability to decisions and practices that people can sustain over time.
Thank you to ENCATC for the invitation. I look forward to the conversation with fellow panellists and participants.
📍 TownHall Europe, Brussels
📅 28 September 2026
Programme and registration: https://creasus.eu/event/creasus-final-conference/

Join the CreaSus Final Conference in Brussels on 28-29 September 2026 to explore sustainability, skills, policy, and practical tools for the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries.

15/09/2026

Gender equality cannot be achieved through formal compliance alone.

On 22–23 February 2027, I will present my paper, “Beyond Gender Mainstreaming: A Responsibility Culture Framework for Gender-Transformative Change”, at the 10th International Conference on The Future of Women in Bangkok.

The paper examines a persistent institutional paradox: although gender mainstreaming has become an established policy strategy, the formal adoption of equality principles and procedures does not necessarily translate into transformative organisational practice.

To investigate this implementation gap, I introduce the Responsibility Culture (RESC) framework as an analytical approach connecting responsibility, human agency and institutional culture.

The framework identifies three interrelated dimensions:

• reflexive responsibility — recognising one’s position within systems of power;
• agentic responsibility — exercising ethical judgement under institutional constraints;
• collective responsibility — understanding how responsibility is shared and legitimised within organisations and communities.

The central argument is that gender-transformative change requires more than rules, procedures and accountability mechanisms. It requires cultural environments in which individuals and institutions recognise their capacity—and their responsibility—to act.

This contribution marks a further development of RESC – Responsibility Culture as a conceptual framework for understanding how responsibility can support gender equality, institutional change and wider social transformation.

Read the abstract:

https://inescaloisi.eu/beyond-gender-mainstreaming-a-responsibility-culture-framework-for-gender-transformative-change/

Affiliation: University of Malaga, Spain

30/08/2026

Pleased to share that my abstract, “Towards a Responsibility Culture: A Conceptual Framework for Advancing Gender Equality Beyond Duty, Accountability and Compliance,” has been accepted for presentation at the 11th International Conference of Early Career Researchers with a Gender Perspective, organised by the University of Burgos.
I will present the contribution online on 3 September 2026, during the panel Regulation and Institutional Responses.
The paper introduces Responsibility Culture as a conceptual framework for advancing gender equality beyond formal compliance. It explores how institutions can move from fulfilling prescribed duties towards embedding responsibility within their organisational culture, decision-making processes and everyday practices.
This presentation represents another important step in the development of the RESC framework and in connecting responsibility culture with gender equality and institutional transformation.
🔗 Read the abstract:
https://inescaloisi.eu/towards-a-responsibility-culture-a-conceptual-framework-for-advancing-gender-equality-beyondduty-accountability-and-compliance/

Gender equality has become a central objective of international policies, legal frameworks and institutional agendas. Despite significant progress in

07/08/2026

I am pleased to introduce my new professional website:

🌐 https://inescaloisi.eu/

The website provides an overview of my work in European project design and management, international cooperation, training and research.

It will also document the development of my PhD research in Equality and Gender at the University of Málaga, with a particular focus on responsibility culture, artificial intelligence, gender equality and social transformation.

A dedicated section will progressively feature articles, abstracts and full papers accepted for presentation or publication in connection with the international conferences, academic networks and relevant events in which I participate.

The website will be regularly updated with new research outputs, projects and professional activities.

Ines Caloisi works between experience and formalisation, practice and research, existing systems and emerging ones

06/08/2026

What if the most important question about Artificial Intelligence were not how much more it enables us to produce, but what kind of human capacities it allows us to preserve and develop?

I am pleased to share my article, “Beyond Productivity: Cognitive Sustainability, Creative Freedom and the Social Role of Artificial Intelligence”, published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics.

The article introduces the concept of cognitive sustainability: the capacity to integrate AI into human activities without weakening critical thinking, creativity, autonomy and meaningful participation.

AI can reduce repetitive work and expand access to knowledge. However, if its value is assessed exclusively through efficiency and productivity, we risk overlooking its deeper social and cognitive consequences.

The central argument is that technological progress should create space for human reflection, imagination and responsibility—not replace them. This requires moving beyond a purely performance-oriented understanding of AI towards a human-centred approach grounded in long-term cognitive and social well-being.

The full article is available here:

https://wissenpublicationgroup.com/journals/index.php/jaidataanalytics/article/view/60



https://wissenpublicationgroup.com/journals/index.php/jaidataanalytics/article/view/60

Beyond Productivity: Cognitive Sustainability, Creative Freedom and the Social Role of Artificial Intelligence Authors Ines Caloisi Doctoral Programme in Gender and Equality, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Author Keywords: Cognitive Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Capacity, Cognitiv...

02/08/2026

Over the past few months, an important part of my doctoral journey has been taking shape through RESC – Responsibility Culture.

RESC emerged from a question that runs through my research: what happens when responsibility is no longer understood merely as an obligation, compliance with rules or the attribution of blame, but as a human, cultural and social capacity that can be developed?

From this perspective, I am building a framework that connects responsibility with social transformation, gender equality, leadership, artificial intelligence and decision-making. It begins with academic research but is intended to engage institutions, organisations and civil society.

The different strands of this work are progressively finding their place within the international academic debate. Several abstracts have already been accepted for presentation at international conferences, creating valuable opportunities to discuss the RESC framework across different disciplines, cultural contexts and academic communities.

This is an important step, because a theoretical proposal truly develops when it is discussed, questioned and tested through dialogue. RESC is therefore both part of my doctoral research and a broader cultural initiative: a space for developing a renewed culture of responsibility capable of reconnecting power, decisions and their human consequences.

This research journey is still evolving, but the interest it is receiving from international conferences is a meaningful encouragement to continue.

Discover the project:
https://resc-responsibilityculture.com/

Promoting a new ethic of responsibility, democratic accountability and human-centered governance.

25/07/2026

I am very pleased to share that the abstract of my paper, “Beyond Compliance: Reframing Responsibility for Gender-Equitable Artificial Intelligence Systems,” has been accepted for an oral presentation at the 13th International Conference on Gender and Women’s Studies 2026.

The conference will take place at Deakin University in Melbourne on 14–15 September 2026 and will mark my first international conference as a doctoral researcher.

My paper questions whether audits, checklists and certification schemes are sufficient to make AI systems genuinely gender-equitable. It argues that responsibility cannot be reduced to compliance with external rules: it also requires the ability to recognise the boundaries between human judgement and automated decision-making, particularly when we ask who makes decisions and who remains accountable for them.

Drawing on gender studies, leadership theory and social innovation, the paper introduces the emerging concept of Responsible Societal Culture – RESC, which understands responsibility as a collective and cultural process rather than an individual or institutional checkbox.

I am particularly happy that this new stage of my doctoral journey will begin in Melbourne, through an international discussion connecting gender equality, artificial intelligence and responsibility.

Conference: https://womenstudies.info/

13th International Conference on Gender & Women’s Studies 2026 | Deakin University, Melbourne | 14-15 September 2026