September 2026 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.
November 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.
November 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.
November 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.
October 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.
October 2025 Machine Vision and Emotional AI in Digital Art Histories Class In October 2025, Ilaria Fornacciari delivered a guest lecture titled A Scanner Darkly: Machine Vision and Emotional AI in Artistic Practices in the course Digital Art Histories Class.
September 2025 Beyond Reified Consciousness: Szaló contribution at ESA conference Csaba Szaló presented a paper Beyond Reified Consciousness: A Dialogue Between Interpretation and Emancipation at the ESA conference.
September 2025 Computing Sociality, Emotional Programming and Autism at 4S In September 2025, Eva Šlesingerová presented her talk Computing Sociality/Dispositif of Personhood, Emotional Programming and Autism at the 4S Annual Meeting in Seattle.
