Our seasons of "digital dialogues" have been running since autumn 2020. To date, over 15,000 attendees from over 110 countries have tuned in. To watch recordings of our past events, click here.
Our winter series began on Monday 15th January and will run weekly until Monday 26th February. We will upload the listings below within a fortnight of each event (and hopefully sooner). You can see the poster for the new series (and all previous ones) here.
All our events begin at 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK time unless otherwise stated. We also several events per series at 7pm ET which opens them up to audiences in the Asia-Pacific region.
They will last for one hour, including time for audience questions.
Our events are free and all are welcome.
Monday 18th March
The Art of Thinking Together
Thomas Bartscherer in conversation with Gabriella Lindsay
How do artists think together in the creation of a new work? In this conversation, Thomas Bartscherer and Gabriella Lindsay will reflect on thinking together in creative work: through time, through words and music, and through friendship. This event is part of the “How to Think Together?” series that explores the concept of thinking together in collectives defined by political, ideological, and normative plurality. The series is organized by Jana Bacevic.
Monday 1st April
Adorno and Social Pathology
Andrew Bowie in conversation with Kate Warlow-Corcoran
In this event, Andrew Bowie will discuss Adorno’s work and life, explaining some of his key philosophical concepts and the philosophical background and historical context of his thinking. Bowie will explore how Adorno’s exploration of why human reason can have irrational consequences led him to rethink basic concepts like “nature”, “history”, and “freedom”, offering alternatives to many ways of thinking about these concepts in contemporary philosophy.
Monday 6th May
Capture and Generate: The New Language of AI
Leif Weatherby in conversation with Audrey Borowski
What we mean by the phrase “artificial intelligence” changes from decade to decade and year to year. The rise of “generative AI” has added language to the definition, and not only because chatbots have been the public face of AI for the last year. This talk will analyze the Transformer Architecture and the language that makes it work, arguing that literary theory – in an updated version – is required to make sense of data culture today.
Monday 25th March
Vanishing Racialised Bodies
David Theo Goldberg in conversation with Brad Evans and Chantal Meza
Addressing the relationship between disappearance and racialised bodies, the conversation will attend to the history of racial persecution, the vanishing of bodies from sites of meaning, memory and justice, along with the ways the violence of disappearance is marking the present. As disappearance sets apart those who should be looked upon with dignity from those whom society deem to be disposable, the question of absence is rethought.
Tuesday 2nd April
Demystifying Metaracism
Tricia Rose in conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley
In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism’s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled. In conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley, pioneering scholar Tricia Rose will help us to better comprehend systemic racism’s inner workings and destructive impacts – and how to break free and create a more just world.
Tuesday 26th March
The Politics of Structural Injustice
Maeve McKeown in conversation with Ashok Kumar
What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How can ordinary individuals with very little power pressure morally responsible, powerful agents to address structural injustice? Do we have the same responsibility for historical injustice as we do for that which we see in today’s world? This event aims for nothing less than a fundamental reassessment of the relationship between power, ordinary people, and responsibility for structural injustice.
Monday 8th April
The Smartness Mandate
Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell in conversation with Audrey Borowski
Smart Grids. Smart Cities. Smart phones. Smart Medicine. Growing concerns with climate change, energy scarcity, security, and economic volatility have turned the focus of urban planners, investors, scientists, and governments towards computational technologies as sites of potential salvation from a world defined by catastrophes and “crisis”. The penetration of almost every part of life by digital technologies has transformed how we understand nature, culture, and time. But how? And for whom?
- Will begin in Spring 2023 - Dates/Time TBCThese classes will take place via Zoom