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The Cogut Institute offered two spring 2025 courses pairing humanities faculty with computer scientists to probe the challenges of AI, giving students a timely, valuable opportunity to explore AI beyond the bounds of purely technical frameworks. Read more: buff.ly/FFV5hgM

Congrats to the Brown Fulbright recipients, including Matthew Ballance (Anthropology) who recently completed the Collaborative Humanities Doctoral Certificate program at the Cogut Institute!

Come celebrate the innovative and timely work of 10 @BrownUniversity Ph.D. candidates at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop. May 2–3 in Andrews House. Schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt @BrownUResearch

Sofía Rocha (#MusicAndMultimediaComposition) & Amber Hawk Swanson (@brown_theatre) explore the work of contemporary artists interrogating identity and power at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop, May 2–3 at Brown. buff.ly/ZJpwNPt #Humanities @BrownUResearch

Matthew Ballance (@BrownAnthro) & Choa Choi (#English) explore Indigenous history and representation at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop, May 2–3 at Brown. Event schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt #Humanities @BrownUResearch

Elizabeth Berman (@MCMBrownU) & Nick Bentz (#MusicAndMultimediaComposition) explore the impact of technology on contemporary media at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop, May 2–3 at Brown. Event schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt #Humanities @BrownUResearch

May 2–3, the Collaborative Public Workshop explores innovative doctoral work in the collaborative humanities. W/ faculty commentators Susan Bernstein (Brown), David L. Eng (@Penn), Elizabeth A. Povinelli (@Columbia), and Leela Prasad (Brown). buff.ly/ZJpwNPt

Sönke Parpart (#GermanStudies) & Shirley Ma (#Musicology and Ethnomusicology) explore the confluence of politics and artistic production at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop, May 2–3 at Brown. Event schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt #Humanities @BrownUResearch

Aseel Azab-Osman (#ReligiousStudies) & @GoutamPiduri (#English) offer fascinating rereadings of historical and literary work, kicking off the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop, May 2–3 at Brown. Event schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt #Humanities @BrownUResearch

Come celebrate the innovative and timely work of 10 @BrownUniversity Ph.D. candidates at the 2025 Collaborative Public Workshop. May 2–3 in Andrews House. Schedule: buff.ly/ZJpwNPt @BrownUResearch

The roundtable “Disability & Debility in the Everyday Life of War” brings together Asian American feminist scholars working at the intersections of critical militarism studies and #DisabilityStudies, 4/15, 4–5:30 pm on campus. buff.ly/GWNTydO @Athia_Choudhury

The roundtable “Disability & Debility in the Everyday Life of War” brings together Asian American feminist scholars working at the intersections of critical militarism studies and #DisabilityStudies, 4/15, 4–5:30 pm on campus. buff.ly/1zedzdC @Athia_Choudhury

Explore the intersection of the humanities, science & #AI in the daylong workshop “Models: Humanities at the Edge of the Human” April 4, 9:30 am–5:30 pm. W/ scholars from art history, data science, history of science, literature & rhetoric. buff.ly/k25Gteo @Brown_DSI

The roundtable “Disability & Debility in the Everyday Life of War” brings together Asian American feminist scholars working at the intersections of critical militarism studies and #DisabilityStudies, 4/15, 4–5:30 pm on campus. buff.ly/8CeaS0I @Athia_Choudhury

The third panel (3–4:40 pm) at the daylong workshop “Models: Humanities at the Edge of the Human” April 4 will feature: • Tara Suri (@Harvard), “Modeling ‘The Human’ Over the End of Empire” • Stephanie Dick (@SFU), “Modeling the Mathematical Mind” buff.ly/k25Gteo

Explore the intersection of the humanities, science & #AI in the daylong workshop “Models: Humanities at the Edge of the Human” April 4, 9:30 am–5:30 pm. W/ scholars from art history, data science, history of science, literature & rhetoric. buff.ly/k25Gteo @Brown_DSI

Scholar Stephanie Dick (@SFU) explores how “criminality” is technologically constructed in her talk “The Blaze of Lights at Western Avenue: ‘Criminality’ and Computation in the first American Law Enforcement Databank” April 3, 4–5:30 pm on campus. buff.ly/qzhCyXH #AI

The second panel (1–2:30 pm) at the daylong workshop “Models: Humanities at the Edge of the Human” April 4 will feature: • Juliet Koss (@scrippscollege), “Model Mode” • David Bates (@UCBerkeley), “Epistemologies of the Virtual” buff.ly/k25Gteo

Workshop “Models: Humanities at the Edge of the Human” April 4 Panel 1: • @tunghui (@UMich), “The Black Box Problem Revisited, or Models to Interpret Media” • Jacob Gates Foster (@IndianaUniv), “Models Are Prostheses for Exploring the Possible” buff.ly/MDFUplx

Join scholars @heather_davish1 (@EugeneLang) & Xan Chacko (@BrownUniversity) for “Plastic Tears,” a talk & conversation exploring questions of plastics, queerness, infrastructures & Davis’ interdisciplinary environmental work. March 17, 5:30 on campus. buff.ly/3D8gjYe