Emotions as Data: Pattern Recognition and the AI Act

November 2025

On 27th November 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition and Emotional Data at the international symposium Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age III. Her talk examined the foundations of emotion-recognition systems.

The abstract of the talk is available here.

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

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.
31 Oct 2025

Dilemmas and Reflections: Mengzhu An's Review of the Neurodiversity Movement

Mengzhu An presented the paper A Critical Review of the Neurodiversity Movement: Dilemmas and Reflections at the Sun Yat-sen University Autism Symposium 2025 and Thrive Together Knowledge Co-Production Symposium in Guangzhou.

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Online Lecture: Can Robots Care?

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

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

Dilemmas and Reflections: Mengzhu An's Review of the Neurodiversity Movement