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"Affect and Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Walter Pitts"
Elizabeth Wilson, Australian Research Council Research Fellow, University of New South Wales
Tuesday, April 8, 12:00 noon, Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
Wilson is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (Routledge, 1998) and Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (Duke UP, 2004). Her research interests are in the cognitive and neurological sciences, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and evolutionary theory; she is currently at work on two projects: one on affect and artificial intelligence, the other on feminism, “the gut” and depression.
Joint seminar with the Department of Modern Culture and Media
"Belonging Made Visible: The Hidden History of Unanticipated Activism in Special Education"
Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00pm, MacMillan 115
Rayna Rapp’s research interests include gender, reproduction, health and culture, and science and technology. Published work includes the book Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (The Anthropology of Everyday Life) (The Anthropology of Everydaylife), (Routledge, 2000). She is the winner of the Eileen Basker Prize in Gender and Health Research from the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society, and the Diana Forsythe Prize in Science, Technology, and Computing from the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
Part of a special lecture series on Bioethics and Culture
"Signal (2): Logical Instruments and the Materiality of Computation"
Christopher Kelty, Visiting Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
February 15 seminar is cancelled -- New date and location to be announced
Joint seminar with the Department of Modern Culture and Media
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