“If we play this attention economy game, we're going to lose,” Madeline Baker, College Fellow in the Department of the History of Science, said at a recent talk on the future of humanities education.
The multidisciplinary conversations Aristotle had with students at his Lyceum thousands of years ago might be useful today in thinking about humanity’s relationship with AI. At least, so says annual conference in Greece that brings together scientists, technologists, humanists, and civic leaders.
I think it’s very important for us as classicists to take a work like Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ as a work of adaptation that is aiming to produce new relations with antiquity and not to think about it in overly deferential terms, or in terms of fidelity or accuracy,” said classics professor Emily Greenwood.
When Hoon Lee ’94 received the script for the role of Lee in Zoe Kazan’s Netflix adaptation of “East of Eden,” he was prepared to be skeptical. Decades in the industry had left the Massachusetts-born actor wary of roles that perpetuate Asian stereotypes.
Luiselli, an incoming professor of English, was nominated for her novel “Beginning Middle End.” It tells the story of a mother and 12-year-old daughter starting over in Sicily after the elder’s divorce, as they figure out how to rebuild amid encounters with the island’s daily life and its winds, waters, and volcanoes.
Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to live deliberately. But for far longer, he pursued a lesser-known obsession: observing scientifically.
Say political engagement could be increased in a certain society by the introduction of effective artificial intelligence tools — but those living there would have fewer in-person interactions. Should such tools be adopted?
The assistant professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies has been named this year’s winner of a distinguished annual honor for artists with strong ties to New England.
The John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies is one of eight U.S. visual arts writers to receive the award this year.
Professor Sarah Lewis’s curated exhibition, “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground,” opened September 10 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
A September 14 talk, co-hosted by the Division of Arts & Humanities’ Public Culture Project and Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, explored the distinctions between human and artificial intelligence.