UPCOMING (in the Bay Area):
2021 - (Archive of past Bay Area LASERs: click here)
- February 2021 - Online!
- Feb 11 @ 12pm:
Maryam Razi (Art Researcher, live from Iran) on "Iran's Media Art Scene"
Mike Parker Pearson (UC London/ Archeology, live from England) on "The World of Stonehenge"- Feb 25 @ 6pm: Panel on "The Algorithmic Society" with
Irina Raicu (Santa Clara University/ Internet Ethics Program Director)
Michal Kosinski (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Simina Mistreanu (China-based journalist)
Piero Scaruffi (Cultural historian) - Feb 11 @ 12pm:
- March 2021 - Online!
- Mar 11 @ 6pm:
Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley) on "The Novel after the Scientific Revolution"
Anastasia Raina and the Posthuman Mobility team (Rhode Island School of Design) on "Microbial Cosmologies"
Christian Kohler (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) on "Environmental Building Technologies"- Mar 25 @ 6pm:
Monica Smith (UC Los Angeles/ Anthropology) on "Urban Art: The First 6,000 Years"
Brian Knutson (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Toward a Deep Science of Affect, Motivation, and Choice"
Sophia Moskalenko (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism, live from Maryland) on "Radicalization and Martyrdom" - Mar 11 @ 6pm:
- April 2021 - Online!
- Apr 8 @ 6pm:
Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology, live from New Zealand) on "Weather as Medium"
Jennie Lavine (Emory Univ) on "What is the endgame of the covid pandemic? Will covid become endemic?"- Apr 15 @ 6pm: A conversation on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" with Cynthia Hooper
- Apr 8 @ 6pm:
- June 2021 - Online!
- June 16 @ 12pm:
Heather Barnett (University of the Arts London) on "Many-headed: Co-creating with the Collective"
TBA- June 23 @ 6pm:
Anastasia Raina (Rhode Island School of Design) on "Posthuman Polymythology"
Cindy Cohn (Executive Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
TBA - June 16 @ 12pm:
- September 2021 - Online!
- September 1 @ 6pm:
Albert Ascoli
TBA
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