Guest lectures and seminars

This seminar invites participants to a conversation about social media age bans from a (dis)connection perspective

This seminar explores (dis)connection practices among migrants, asylum seekers and roofless individuals

In this lecture, Juliane Rebentisch (Hochscule für bildende Künste Hamburg / Princeton University) will discuss imaginaries of the future in a time of ecological crisis.

In this lecture, Timotheus Vermeulen will outline the need for a new theory of "plastic time" in order to account for the significance of gestures in recent screen media.

Mobile disconnection: Two events for scholars considering to submit to a special issue of Mobile Media & Communication

Mobile disconnection: Two events for scholars considering to submit to a special issue of Mobile Media & Communication

In this lecture, Antonio Somaini (Sorbonne) will discuss how artificial intelligence transforms our relation to history and memory, among other by looking at how AI is perspectivized in a number of contemporary artworks. 

This seminar explores online/offline experiences and tensions in social spaces: coffee shops, libraries and cultural events

This seminar explores digital disconnection and wellbeing: motivations, effects, and expressions.

We welcome everyone to yet another interdisciplinary challenging talk on what it means to be human in the age of AI:

Attila Márton – Disturbing! Digital Ecology and the End of Modernity

Time and place: Mar. 2, 2026 1:15 PM-3:00 PM, at UiO Blindern Campus, Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka - Auditorium 2

Register here

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.