Summer Semester 2026
Rafael Grohmann (University of Toronto, Canada): Worker-led AI governance in cultural industries
- Datum: 16. June 2026
- Location: Bremer Presse-Club
Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collectives, and social movements, to shape how AI is used, managed, deployed, negotiated, or refused at work. Grounded in ongoing empirical research with cultural workers across the Americas, the talk analyzes one specific dimension of worker-led AI (…)
8. April 2026
Gabriela Molina León (Aarhus university, Denmark): The Impact of GenAI on Visualization Research and Practice
- Datum: 5. May 2026
- Location: Bremer Presse-Club
Abstract Generative AI has become a significant trend in visualization research and practice since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. Despite this, we do not know enough about how visualization professionals are actually using Generative AI, its benefits, and disadvantages. In this talk, I will present a series of projects that illustrate the current advances (…)
8. April 2026
Prof. Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia): Revisiting 'the' Public Sphere and Its Algorithmically Shaped Publics
- Datum: 7. April 2026
- Location: Bremer Presse-Club
Bio Axel Bruns is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, (…)
17. March 2026
Dr. Anke Stoll (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Human Judgments, Machine Decisions: Annotation Bias in Machine Learning Classification
- Datum: 20. May 2026
16. March 2026
Prof. Dr. Ferruh Yilmaz (Tulane University,USA): "The Global Rise of the Far Right: Populist Strategy, Crisis and Affect"
- Datum: 15. April 2026
2. March 2026
Prof. Dr. Greg Elmer (Toronto Metropolitan University Canada): "Special Screening with Q’n’A: THE TV SHOW"
- Datum: 8. April 2026
2. March 2026
