Please join us this spring for the 2026 Humanities Lecture Series, "AI in Action: The Future of Humans." All talks are free and open to the public and will be held from 5 p.m.–6 p.m. in the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies. The series is organized by Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History, Amy Weiss, and Director of the Humanities Center, Nicholas Ealy.
For further information, contact Nicholas Ealy at ealy@hartford.edu.
Lecture Schedule:
Tuesday, Feb. 10
A Grand Larceny: How the AI Industry Steals Our Past to Rob Our Future
Speaker: Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Art History, Univerisity of Massachusetts-Amherst
Monday, Feb. 16
Connecting with Consumers: The Future of AI in Business Marketing
Speaker: Lillian Kamal, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hartford
Monday, Feb. 23
Artifical Imagination: Filmmaking in the Age of AI
Speaker: Dakota Nanton, Assistant Professor of Cinema, University of Hartford
Monday, March 2
Thinking Critically With AI
Speakers: Sarah Senk, Professor of English, California Polytechnic State University & Taiyo Inoue, Professor of Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University (Hosts of the "My Robot Teacher" Podcast!)
Monday, April 13
Beyond Human Design: AI-Driven Innovation in Metamaterials and Space Communication Systems
Speaker: Brian Wells, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Hartford