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.
Electrodes, Film and Algorithm: a Guest Lecture in Visual Anthropology Class
On 11th November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari delivered a guest lecture titled Electrodes, Film and Algorithm: the Clinical and Colonial Epistemology of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) within the course Visual Anthropology - Visual Culture (SANb2036) at the Faculty of Social Science, Masaryk University.
The course introduces visual anthropology as both a method and a field of research, offering a broad overview of key theories, concepts, methods and developments in current approaches to understanding visual experience as a bio-socio-cultural phenomenon in European and international contexts.
Learn more about the talk here.
