Info Session | Italian Studies Perugia: Art and Food in the Green Heart of Italy
Event interval: Single day event
Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL)
Campus room: C-242
Accessibility Contact: Michael Munz, munzm@uw.edu
Event Types: Information Sessions
Come learn about the Summer A Italian Studies Perugia: Art and Food in the Green Heart of Italy study abroad program!
Event information provided by University of Washington.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Padelford Hall (PDL).
Info Session | Italian Studies Perugia: Art and Food in the Green Heart of Italy
Event interval: Single day event
Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96399079742
Campus room: C-24
Accessibility Contact: Michael Munz, munzm@uw.edu
Event Types: Information Sessions
Come learn about the Summer A Italian Studies Perugia: Art and Food in the Green Heart of Italy study abroad program!
Event information provided by University of Washington.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Zoom.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Emily M. Bender, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities"
The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as "ground truth" even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human.
Emily M. Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.