The Future is Human/e: Preservationists, Afterlives, and Longevities

The Future is Human/e is one of three 5×5 teams the Collaboratory accepted in April. This team is led by Sarah Murray, Assistant Professor in the department of  Film, TV, Media, and Digital Studies. This team will investigate the meanings of longevity, death, and speculative futures in a post-digital, post-capitalist, and post-eco-crisis world. Their investigation includes discussions…

Using the Tools of the Future to Find Patterns in the Past

Tools of the Future/ Patterns of the past is one of three new 5x5s the Collaboratory has accepted in April. This team is led by Giulia Saltini Semerari, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. This team will reflect on the power, risks, and limitations of deploying AI in the context of navigating academic publications in the humanities, utilizing work…

New 5×5 Team, Public Facing Studies of Religion

The Public Facing Studies of Religion team is comprised of faculty members with backgrounds in a variety of religious scholarly studies. They will meet to share and analyze techniques for disseminating public facing versions of research on religion. Topics they will discuss include the phenomena of scholarship on religion being mistaken as proselytizing and the complications of pressures inherent to religious…