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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES 2024-2025: TECHNOLOGY AND/IN SOCIETY

For the 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecture Series, we invited speakers to focus on intersections between technology and society. Technological innovations have given rise to AI and remote sensing capabilities that expand and change the ways that we perceive the world.

The talks in our series offered anthropological considerations of how these technologies are shaping relations, knowledge, and beliefs, and raising important questions about how new forms of power are being produced through technological “advances.”

Monday, October 21, 2024

Social Event

Welcome to New York Anthropology Fall Networking Event

Meet students, faculty, and practitioners across the Greater New York area.

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Monday, November 4, 2024

Distinguished Lecture Series

Beyond "Lost" Cities: Archaeology's Digital Revolution and the Promises and Challenges of AI

Discover how LiDAR, satellites, and AI are reshaping archaeology in Peru and beyond.

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Monday, December 2, 2024

Distinguished Lecture Series

Elon Magazine: Anthropology, Satire, and Collaborative Hallucination with Sentient Machines

Explore parody, fame, and AI collaboration through the project Elon Magazine.

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Monday, March 3, 2025

Distinguished Lecture Series

An Anthropologist Under the Surface: Time, Distance, Texture

A look at how communities and scientists engage with aquifers as living interiors.

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Monday, April 7, 2025

Distinguished Lecture Series

From Tools to Metahumans: Talking to AI

Examine AI as more than tools—linking them to spirits, ancestors, and power.

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Sunday, May 4, 2025

Social Event

Margaret Mead Film Festival Graduate Student Event

Join us at the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Free tickets, food, and drinks for anthropology graduate students in the New York area.

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Past Programming

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