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We welcome everyone to HumAIn Talks #7 with Nick Srnicek. He will be joining us for a talk about his latest book, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI (Polity), published in 2025. 

The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?

Wed. Dec. 10, we invite everyone to the last HumAIn event of the year for The Human Measure(d): Discussion on N. Katherine Hayles’ Bacteria to AI – Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts where we will have a discussion of the introduction and the work of Hayles on approaches to understand AI.

Please register here to get the reading material on email up front.

This seminar explores disconnection and news avoidance, and the relationship between research on public connection and digital disconnection.

Wednesday Nov. 12, HumAIn presents a guest lecture by Professor emeritus Charles Ess, followed by a discussion between Ess and Professor Steffen Krüger.

The workshop will be hands-on and participation is open to anyone interested, researchers, staff, and students. The monster workshop works along the premises of inviting people to show light to the monsters that otherwise remain invisible, allowing them to minimise their power.

This seminar explores designer responses to digital normativity and how post-digital experiences are curated.

In this lecture, Dr. Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol) will discuss whether narratologists and futurists might mutually benefit from a critical toolkit for understanding foretelling as a narrative practice.

The Department of Media and Communication are happy to invite you to a panel conversation on Media Events and Everyday Life

Dr. Michiel Baas will give a talk on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creative processes of Indian artists.

We invite you to a filmscreening and performance-lecture at Trekanten with Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher, artist, and filmmaker

We invite everyone to a workshop with Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher, artist, and filmmaker.

The alumni network X-IMK welcomes former and current students to a seminar on recent research at IMK and the Future work life and AI.

This seminar will explore the social aspects of disconnection: how people react to be disconnected from and the technological mediations of interpersonal presence and abscence

HumAIn: A Humanities Hub for the Reimagination of AI invites you to a seminar with Professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg.

In this lecture, Christina Kiaer (Northwestern University) will discuss the complex conditions of art and art historical research in Russia during the 30-year window between the fall of the Soviet Union and the restrictions imposed at start of the current war.  

In the final seminar, PhD fellows from IMK get feedback and recommendations for improving their dissertation draft prior to submission.   

Master Carrie Ann Russpatrick at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation The Return of the Vulva Monster: Screen Cultures of the Gender-Monstrous for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Advanced course in methods: This PhD course provides an in-depth exploration of the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and human literacy practices. Participants will investigate how AI technologies are transforming the ways we read, write, and communicate, focusing on both theoretical and practical dimensions

Advanced course in Methodology: How to “do” research at the deep end of the qualitative methodology spectrum? This course deals with the unique challenges that ethnography, autoethnography and phenomenology face in balancing the systematicity of scientific investigation with capturing the sensory, embodied, situated and emotional side of human (and non-human) reality

This seminar will explore emerging norms for disconnection, potential conflicts and the need for new sensibilities in a post-digital society.

This seminar explores creative methods in digital disconnection research: creating writings, drawings and mixed methods

Are you submitting your thesis this semester, and have unanswered questions? Do you need tips, advice, encouragement and motivation? Take a break from writing and join us at the Home stretch meeting!

In this lecture, Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago) will discuss what happens when we question standard psychoanalytic accounts of the "silence of the drives" and instead see it as a point of departure for a new theory of music.