Past Events and Video Archive


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AI Technology as Interactional Human Culture. Language, Data Practice and Social Struggle

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In this interdisciplinary workshop, we discuss AI culture from a critical anthropological, sociological and linguistic perspective. Listen to the talks from Alicia Fuentes-Calle, Andreas Hepp, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Emily M. Bender, Felix do Carmo, Gabriella Chronis, Michela Gargiulo, Nina Markl and Tim Hector.

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Unthinking Language: Paths towards Posthumanist Understandings of Human Interaction

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In this international and interdisciplinary symposium, we seek to explore human communicative behavior beyond the idea of languages as ordered grammatical and lexical resources that are used by particular cohorts of people. In line with contemporary posthumanist thought that questions body-mind/ nature-culture dualisms (see e.g. Braidotti 2013, Pennycook 2018, Pepperell 2003), we particularly focus on the corporal, material and technological conditions of human interaction and on the relationship between material realities and discourse. Watch the videos by Alastair Pennycook, Annelies Kusters, Carmel Vaisman, Crispin Thurlow, Erez Levon, Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger, Michele Zappavigna, Miriam Lind and Stephen Cowley.

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Wild Publics: Language in public space under the conditions of late modernity

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Watch talks from Jannis Androutsopoulos, Jan Blommaert, Susan Gal, Jürgen Jaspers, Tom Van Hout, Rodney Jones, Sirpa Leppänen, Cornelius Puschmann, Jürgen Spitzmüller // Organised by Theresa Heyd and Britta Schneider

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