Past Events

• Talking it Out: Dialogue, Monologue, and Finding Our Humanity in a World of ChatGPT

• Center on Ethics | Audrey Watters: The History of the Future of Ed-Tech
• Center on Ethics | Shannon Vallor: AI as a Tool of Dispossession
• Center on Ethics | Meica Magnani: Integrating Ethical Reflection and Social Responsibility throughout Higher Education during the Time of AI

• Conversation with Authors of The AI Con: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, & Rhonda Holberton
• Center for Literary Arts Reading and Craft Talk: Ted Chiang
• QuickBites | AI in Creative Spaces with Rhonda Holberton, Gianmare Grazioli, and Janet Stemwedel
• Movie Screening: Bladerunner (1982)
• Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Rhonda Holberton
• Symposium | Design in Process: Evolving with AI and Beyond

• Center on Ethics | Emily Bender: Societal Impacts on the Development and Use of Large Language Models (and Other AI)
• Center on Ethics | Raychelle Burks: The Ethical Dimensions of the Crime Lab
• Center on Ethics | Ryan Jenkins: The Ethical Dimensions of Self-Driving Cars
• Data Feminism and AI, with Lauren Klein. Included faculty grant-writing meeting, Responsible Computing Club student discussion, and an in-person/virtual Digital Humanities Center talk
• Exhibit | Mr. Roboto
• Public Art, Technology, and Placemaking: Guest Lecture by Esteban Garcia Bravo
• Sustainable 3D Printed Design Exhibition: Exploring and Supporting San José's Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Art through 3D Printing Technology

• Robots + Design Workshop: Roberta Meet Ani
• Sustainable 3D Printed Design Exhibition: Exploring and Supporting San José's Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Art through 3D Printing Technology
• Experiential Horizions Workshop on AI and Symposium
• Quickbites | Help or Hype?
• Center on Ethics | Damien P. Williams: How We Can Develop Better Technologies by Centering the Lives and Experiences of Marginalized People, and What Happens When We Don't
• Center on Ethics | Jacquelyn Gill: The Ethics of "De-Extinction"

• Quickbites | Twitter: Democracy or Poison Pill?
• Center on Ethics | Maya Goldenberg: The Ethical Dimensions of Vaccine Hesitancy in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Robots + Design Workshop | Roberta Meets Ani

• Data + AI + Design | Intro to Exquisite 3D Printing by Camella Dahn Gim (UCLA) Lecture and Workshop
• Technologies of Print | Geographies of Meaning: Day-long Symposium with Master Printers, Book Artists, and Scholars
• Quickbites | The Facebook Papers
• Robots + Design Workshop | Technological Affordances and the Politics of Design by Jenny L. Davis
• Data + AI + Design | Creative AI: From Expressive Mimicry to Critical Inquiry (Lecture) + Exploring Machine Learning Applications for Art and Design (Workshop) by Angus Forbes
• Data + AI + Design Lecture | Artificial Natures//Games of Life + Autonomous Complexity in Life and Machines
• Data + AI + Design | I Learn Humanities by Making Art with AI (Lecture) and Co-Creating Art with AI using Machine Learning (Workshop)
• Technologies of Print | Lilian-Yvonne Bertram in conversation with Kathi Inman Berens
• Mapping Justice | Mishuana Goeman in Conversation with Jonathan Gomez regarding space, mapping, and Indigenous sovereignty
• Robots + AI Design Workshop | with Andrew Kudless, Diane Lee, and Virginia San Fratello
• Robots + Deisgn Workshop | Collaborating with Robots
• Digital Design for Sustainability: A UX/UI Bootcamp
• Data + AI + Design II | Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design (4 lectures and workshops)
• Ecoacoustics Series
• Maelzel's Panharmonicon: A Virtual Reconstruction of a Musical Automaton from Beethoven's Era
• Center on Ethics | Sarah T. Roberts: The Ethical Dimensions of the Economy of Social Media Moderation

Note: Many events were cancelled because of COVID

• Deep Humanities Events:
  • The Democracy Project
  • The Devil in Silicon Valley
  • San José Councilmembers Jimenez, Peralez, Carrasco, Esparza, and Arenas with Dr. Stephen Pitti, the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley and Dr. Albert Camarillo, the author of Chicanos in a Changing Society

• Deep Humanities Tech Lectures
  • Martin Ford |  Disruptive Technology: Do Robots Want Your Job? (Tech Museum of Innovation)
  • Jamie Metzel: From Precision to Predictive
• Design + Robots Lecture Series
  • Tsz Ng from the University of Michigan
  • Jenny Sabin from Cornell University
  • Karl Daubmann from Lawrence Technological University
• Girls in STEM Screening/Talk
• "When Science and Humanities & the Arts Collide: Bridging Divides with Narrative," a cluster of programming presented with The Story Collider including a full-day narrative workshop, a half-day train-the-trainers worshop, and a live storyteling event at the Hammer Theatre in San José

• Frankenstein Events:
  • Showing of National Theatre Live of both versions of Frankenstein
  • Frankenstein Live Radio Play
  • Frankenstein Bicentennial: The Monster's Story
  • Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
  • Frankenstein!! Concert (Gruber)
  • Student trip to see San Francisco Ballet's performance of Frankenstein
• Deep Humanities Tech Lectures:
  • Richard Prum: Evolution & Beauty
  • Tobias Rees, author After Ethnos
  • Margaret O'Mara, author, History of Silicon Valley