Computing Sociality, Emotional Programming and Autism at 4S

September 2025

On 5th September 2025, Eva Šlesingerová presented her talk Computing Sociality/Dispositif of Personhood, Emotional Programming and Autism at the 4S Annual Meeting in Seattle, organised by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), a leading international forum for science and technology studies.

Her presentation formed part of Panel 266: Recreating Machine Sociality, which focused on how sociality and autonomy are designed and negotiated in human–AI and human–robot relations.

14 Sep

Online Lecture: Can Robots Care?

In summer 2026, research fellow Mengzhu An delivered an online lecture on whether robots can care, exploring how anthropology studies AI, emotion, and everyday relationships with technology.
30 Nov 2025

Csaba Szaló's research at the Senate House Library in London

In autumn 2025, Csaba Szaló carried out research at the Senate House Library at University of London, engaged in scholarly exchange with Simon Sussen, and attended a seminar at City St George's.
30 Nov 2025

Emotions as Data: Pattern Recognition and the AI Act

In November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition and Emotional Data, where she examined emotion recognition technologies in relation to the AI Act & epistemological foundations of emotional data.
30 Nov 2025

Electrodes, Film and Algorithm: a Guest Lecture in Visual Anthropology Class

In November 2025, a guest lecture by Ilaria Fornacciari brought critical perspectives on facial analysis and digital technologies into the course Visual Anthropology - Visual Culture.

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