Our Events
DISC hosts many exciting events, including conferences and research festivals, seminar series, guest talks, workshops, and an annual Digital Politics Summer School. Please see below the details of our upcoming and past events.
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Talk from Dr Nataliia Laba- Artificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war representation
OnlineArtificial witness: Generative AI and the visual politics of war representationOne application of generative AI is the production of highly realistic war images, often indistinguishable from photographs taken by human […]
Digital Society Book Launch
OnlinePlease join us to celebrate the newest publications by our members (and get publisher discounts, too!) Theorising Drones in Visual Culture: Views from the Blue authored by Elisa Serafinelli significantly contributes […]
Workshop from Dr Nataliia Laba on Beyond the algorithm: Creative agency in the age of AI
Can generative AI be creative, or is it merely a copy machine that recycles stolen data it has been trained on? Adopting a usage-oriented perspective, this workshop invites a critical […]
Talk from Dr Katie MacKinnon on Arctic Archives: Temporal politics of platform power
Over the past couple years several deep time data archival projects have emerged, and with them the politics of data loss in deep time archival processes reveal how platform centralization […]
Workshop by Dr Katie MacKinnon on Early Internet Memories
Have you ever wondered what happens to your data when a platform dies? Have you ever tried to find an old account? Have you ever deleted your website and regretted it? In this […]
Talk on the weight of connectivity and the inescapable grip of digitality
Kenzie Burchell and Adi Kuntsman in conversation about dis/connection, dis/engagement, and digital life. Kenzie Burchell, the author of Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life (Stanford UP) and Adi Kuntsman, the […]