Past Events
The College of Humanities and the Arts has a rich history of ai-et related events, going back from 2018 to the present:
Fall 2026
- Talking it Out: Dialogue, Monologue, and Finding Our Humanity in a World of ChatGPT
Spring 2026
- Center on Ethics | Audrey Watters: The History of the Future of Ed-Tech
- Center on Ethics | Shannon Vallor: AI as a Tool of Dispossession
- Center on Ethics | Meica Magnani: Integrating Ethical Reflection and Social Responsibility throughout Higher Education during the Time of AI
2025
- Conversation with Authors of The AI Con: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, & Rhonda Holberton
- Center for Literary Arts Reading and Craft Talk: Ted Chiang
- QuickBites | AI in Creative Spaces with Rhonda Holberton, Gianmare Grazioli, and Janet Stemwedel
- Movie Screening: Bladerunner (1982)
- Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Rhonda Holberton
- Symposium | Design in Process: Evolving with AI and Beyond
2024
- Center on Ethics | Emily Bender: Societal Impacts on the Development and Use of Large Language Models (and Other AI)
- Center on Ethics | Raychelle Burks: The Ethical Dimensions of the Crime Lab
- Center on Ethics | Ryan Jenkins: The Ethical Dimensions of Self-Driving Cars
- Data Feminism and AI, with Lauren Klein. Included faculty grant-writing meeting, Responsible Computing Club student discussion, and an in-person/virtual Digital Humanities Center talk
- Exhibit | Mr. Roboto
- Public Art, Technology, and Placemaking: Guest Lecture by Esteban Garcia Bravo
- Sustainable 3D Printed Design Exhibition: Exploring and Supporting San José's Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Art through 3D Printing Technology
2023
- Robots + Design Workshop: Roberta Meet Ani
- Sustainable 3D Printed Design Exhibition: Exploring and Supporting San José's Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Art through 3D Printing Technology
- Experiential Horizions Workshop on AI and Symposium
- Quickbites | Help or Hype?
- Center on Ethics | Damien P. Williams: How We Can Develop Better Technologies by Centering the Lives and Experiences of Marginalized People, and What Happens When We Don't
- Center on Ethics | Jacquelyn Gill: The Ethics of "De-Extinction"
2022
- Quickbites | Twitter: Democracy or Poison Pill?
- Center on Ethics | Maya Goldenberg: The Ethical Dimensions of Vaccine Hesitancy in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Robots + Design Workshop | Roberta Meets Ani
2021
- Data + AI + Design | Intro to Exquisite 3D Printing by Camella Dahn Gim (UCLA) Lecture and Workshop
- Technologies of Print | Geographies of Meaning: Day-long Symposium with Master Printers, Book Artists, and Scholars
- Quickbites | The Facebook Papers
- Robots + Design Workshop | Technological Affordances and the Politics of Design by Jenny L. Davis
- Data + AI + Design | Creative AI: From Expressive Mimicry to Critical Inquiry (Lecture) + Exploring Machine Learning Applications for Art and Design (Workshop) by Angus Forbes
- Data + AI + Design Lecture | Artificial Natures//Games of Life + Autonomous Complexity in Life and Machines
- Data + AI + Design | I Learn Humanities by Making Art with AI (Lecture) and Co-Creating Art with AI using Machine Learning (Workshop)
- Technologies of Print | Lilian-Yvonne Bertram in conversation with Kathi Inman Berens
- Mapping Justice | Mishuana Goeman in Conversation with Jonathan Gomez regarding space, mapping, and Indigenous sovereignty
- Robots + AI Design Workshop | with Andrew Kudless, Diane Lee, and Virginia San Fratello
- Robots + Deisgn Workshop | Collaborating with Robots
- Digital Design for Sustainability: A UX/UI Bootcamp
- Data + AI + Design II | Rethinking the Future of Sustainable Design (4 lectures and workshops)
- Ecoacoustics Series
- Maelzel's Panharmonicon: A Virtual Reconstruction of a Musical Automaton from Beethoven's Era
- Center on Ethics | Sarah T. Roberts: The Ethical Dimensions of the Economy of Social Media Moderation
2020
Note: Many events were cancelled because of COVID
- Deep Humanities Events:
- The Democracy Project
- The Devil in Silicon Valley
- San José Councilmembers Jimenez, Peralez, Carrasco, Esparza, and Arenas with Dr. Stephen Pitti, the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley and Dr. Albert Camarillo, the author of Chicanos in a Changing Society
2019
- Deep Humanities Tech Lectures
- Martin Ford | Disruptive Technology: Do Robots Want Your Job? (Tech Museum of Innovation)
- Jamie Metzel: From Precision to Predictive
- Design + Robots Lecture Series
- Tsz Ng from the University of Michigan
- Jenny Sabin from Cornell University
- Karl Daubmann from Lawrence Technological University
- Girls in STEM Screening/Talk
- "When Science and Humanities & the Arts Collide: Bridging Divides with Narrative," a cluster of programming presented with The Story Collider including a full-day narrative workshop, a half-day train-the-trainers worshop, and a live storyteling event at the Hammer Theatre in San José
2018
- Frankenstein Events:
- Showing of National Theatre Live of both versions of Frankenstein
- Frankenstein Live Radio Play
- Frankenstein Bicentennial: The Monster's Story
- Frankenstein Goes to the Movies
- Frankenstein!! Concert (Gruber)
- Student trip to see San Francisco Ballet's performance of Frankenstein
- Deep Humanities Tech Lectures:
- Richard Prum: Evolution & Beauty
- Tobias Rees, author After Ethnos
- Margaret O'Mara, author, History of Silicon Valley