Winter 2025 Speaker Series

Winter 2025 Schedule:

From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendance, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics with Dan Zimmer, Stanford University 

Talk co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & THI 

Monday January 27 at 1pm PST 

Talk co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute with Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Virtual attendance option to come

Dan Zimmer is a political theorist who studies the planet-scale application of human power, with a transdisciplinary focus on nuclear weapons, global warming, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received a doctorate in political science from the Government Department of Cornell University and has since studied contemporary issues in climate science and AI with STS scholar Paul Edwards as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He now works as a lecturer in the Stanford Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program and is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the emergence of the human species as a political object from Aristotle to the atom bomb to the Anthropocene.

Nature, Women, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration with Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova, University of Bergamo

Monday February 10 at 1pm PST

Virtual attendance option to come

Disembodiment: A Conversation with Banu Bargu, UC Santa Cruz in conversation with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova, UC Santa Cruz

Monday March 3 at 1pm PST

Virtual attendance option to come