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Gianluca Sergi - "Reframing AI and Its Implications for Cinema and Cultural Production"

"Reframing AI and Its Implications for Cinema and Cultural Production"

Apr 20, 2026 @ 4:10pm - 5:30pm
STS Seminar Room, SSH 1246
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Stina Attebery, Josh Pearson, and David Higgins, "New Metaphors for AI" (Mini-Symposium)

The release of ChatGPT-3 in November 2022 marked a watershed moment in public and industry excitement around probabilistic language-generation tools, accelerating a powerful wave of hype and speculation.

Apr 1, 2026 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
STS Seminar Room, SSH 1246
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Joan Slonczewski - “Biped Without Lanthanides: The Human Mind and the AI Person”

"Biped Without Lanthanides: The Human Mind and the AI Person"

Feb 5, 2026 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Muhammad Ahmad: "Doppelgängers: When AI Speaks for the Living, the Dead, and the Imagined"

Can we treat AI chatbots as a literary form? The talk interweaves insights from three projects: a simulation of Dr.

Feb 4, 2026 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Kate Elswit - "Rethinking Motion Data for Dance Historical Inquiry and Interpretation"

Rethinking Motion Data for Dance Historical Inquiry and Interpretation

Dec 1, 2025 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
STS Seminar Room, SSH 1246
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Workshop - "How AI Thinks" (Carl Stahmer)

Nov 14, 2025 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Nicholas Pilarski - "Dialectics of Civic Imagination: Four XR Experiments in Participatory Governance, Their Evolving Pipelines, and Lessons Learned at the Resilient Visions CoLab"

Nicholas Pilarski Arizona State UniversityDialectics of Civic Imagination: Four XR Experiments in Participatory Governance, Their Evolving Pipelines, and Lessons Learned at the Resilient Visions CoLab

Sarah Bay-Cheng - "Bad Actors: The Future Is Artificial"

Sarah Bay-ChengProfessor of Emerging Technologies in Theatre and Performance and Helen and Paul Phelan Chair in DramaUniversity of Toronto

May 16, 2025 @ 12:00pm - 2:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Workshop - "AI Large-Corpus Interface Imagining" (Maxime Le Calve and Joe Dumit)

AI Large-Corpus Interface Imagining WorkshopMaxime Le Calve (Humboldt University, Berlin)Joe Dumit (UC Davis)

This workshop will run Friday April 11: 10-12pm, 1-3:30pm PST

Apr 11, 2025 @ 10:00am - 3:30pm
STS Seminar Room, SSH 1246
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Maxime Le Calve - "Augural Anthropology: Staging Retrieval-Augmented Generative Conversations Beyond AI's Illusion of Scientific Understanding"

Maxime Le Calve (Humboldt University, Berlin)

"Augural Anthropology: Staging Retrieval-Augmented Generative Conversations Beyond AI's Illusion of Scientific Understanding"

Apr 9, 2025 @ 4:00pm - 6:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Merve Tekgürler - "LLMs for Translation: Historical, Low-Resourced Languages and Contemporary AI Models" (Lecture and Workshop)

Merve Tekgürler Stanford University March 12, 2025Talk: 1-2pmWorkshop: 2-4pmDataLab, Shields Library 360 Talk (1-2PM): LLMs for Translation: Histori

Mar 12, 2025 @ 1:00pm - 4:00pm
DataLab, 360 Shields Library
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Conference - "Engineering Our Experimental AI Futures: Computational Social Science Escape 2025"

Feb 28, 2025 @ 9:00am - 7:00pm
Stonegate Country Club, Davis
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Holden Karau - "Fighting Health Insurance Denials with AI: Using AI to Make the World Suck Less" (Lecture and Workshop)

Dec 3, 2024 @ 2:00pm - 5:00pm
DataLab, Shields Library 360
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Ruxandra Teodorescu - "Technological Bonds: Exploring Human-AI Interaction in Louisa Hall’s Speak"

Please join us on Monday, November 4 at 12:10pm in SSH 1246 for a talk by Ruxandra Teodorescu (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg), addressing intersections of literary studies and artificial intelligence:

Ruxandra Teod

Nov 4, 2024 @ 12:10pm - 2:00pm
STS Seminar Room, SSH 1246
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