The ENVISIONING AN ELECTRIFYING FUTURE conference is planned as an interdisciplinary encounter of communication and media theory, cultural sciences, sociology, psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, history, political science, picture theory, and other specialties. We insist on achieving new scholarly results. Especially with AI now complementing, or intruding into, the world of the internet, what image of the future can we conceive of, what new patterns of life and in particular what forms of education should we strive to create?
Program:
13:00 – 13:10: Opening addresses 13:10 – 13:50: Opening general discussion 13:50 – 14:00: Pause 14:00 – 14:20: Barry Smith, “What Is Intelligence?” 14:20 – 14:40: Petra Aczél, “The Future Mind – Skills, Sciences and Scruples in Our Coming A(I)ges” 14:40 – 15:00: Xu Wen, “Multimodally Learning Abstract Concepts in the Age of AI” 15:00 – 15:20: James E. Katz, “Could AI in the Classroom Harm Democracy?” 15:20 – 15:40: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, “We Have Always Been Cyborgs” 15:40 – 16:00: Coffee pause 16:00 – 16:20: Nicholas J. Wade, “Envisioning Vision: The Search for the Elusive Image” 16:20 – 16:40: Barbara Tversky, “Thinking with Your Hands” 16:40 – 17:00: Piotr Kozak, “Thinking in Images: Mental Space vs. Physical Space” 17:00 – 17:20: Michalle Gal, “Visualism and Rationalism: The Disillusionment Brought by the Visual Turn” 17:20 – 17:40: András Benedek, “Time and Visuality in Education – or Does AI Matter?” 17:40 – 18:00: Coffee pause 18:00 – 18:20: Cynthia Freeland, “New Histories for Instant Fashion Futures” 18:20 – 18:40: Rich Ling, “AI: Climate Villain or Climate Saviour?” 18:40 – 19:05: Eörs Szathmáry, “Science in the 21st Century” 19:05 – 19:20: Concluding general discussion
Szervező
MTA Kommunikáció- és Médiatudományi Osztályközi Állandó Bizottság