Lecture Recording: “On the Pleasures and Perils of Personhood: Slavery and Artificial Life”
Lecture Write-Up: “On the Pleasures and Perils of Personhood: Slavery and Artificial Life”
Synopsis Our changing technological landscape is both generative and a cause of anxiety for contemporary Americans. Questions for our rapidly developing future abound. What happens when machines make machines? Can AI and other technologies be held legally responsible for their actions? Can the owners of algorithms claim the product of their invention’s invention? This contentious […]
Lecture Write-up: “Species Insurance”: Black Women, Environmental Storytelling & Survival
Settled between Black History Month and Women’s History Month, Dr. Tiya Miles’s lecture, “Species Insurance”: Black Women, Environmental Storytelling & Survival, served as a timely response to the ways in which women have begun considering the legacies of their female ancestors. From women considering how their own lives mirror those of their female forebears in […]
Lecture by Tiya Miles on February 23rd
On February 23rd, please join Lectures in Criticism and the BU Center for the Humanities for our Spring lecture. The speaker, Tiya Miles, Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be presenting her lecture titled “Species Insurance: Black Women, Environmental Storytelling, and Survival.” […]
New Video: Juliet Floyd’s “Revisiting the Turing Test”
The full recording of BU Professor of Philosophy Juliet Floyd’s lecture “Revisiting the Turing Test: Humans, Machines, and Phraseology” is now available. More information on Professor Floyd’s work can be found at her lecture page.
Lecture Write-up: Revisiting the Turing Test
There are a few different ways we might understand this claim. On the one hand, there is a tremendous amount of contemporary interest in Alan Turing, with acclaimed films such as The Imitation Game and Ex Machina reflecting the magnetic pull of his life and research in popular culture. On the other hand, we find ourselves in a […]
Lecture by Juliet Floyd on October 27th
On October 27th, please join Lectures in Criticism and the BU Center for the Humanities for our Fall lecture. The speaker, Juliet Floyd, Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, will be presenting her lecture titled “Revisiting the Turing Test: Humans, Machines, and Phraseology.” This event is open to the public. The lecture will begin at […]
Lectures in Criticism Returns!
After the recent hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lectures in Criticism proudly returns for its 38th year of bringing leading scholars in the humanities to Boston University and the wider Boston public. As a part of this return, Lectures in Criticism is now presented by the BU Center for the Humanities, and is recommencing […]