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16.07.2024 | Philosophische Fakultät, Asien-Orient-Institut
What’s AI got to do with it? The Odyssey of Knowledge Production and Stress through the Ages and into the Future
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Dr. Layla AbdelRahim |
Layla AbdelRahim is a comparativist anthropologist. Her work critiques technology and delves deep into the roots of human violence, stress, the quality of life in civilisation and wilderness, and ecocide. It also encompasses a wide breadth of disciplines that compare human and nonhuman cultures. She is the author of numerous essays and two books: Wild Children—Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education (Fernwood and Columbia University Press; 2013) and Children’s Literature, Domestication and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Routledge, 2015; 2018).
https://www.routledge.com/authors/i10144-layla-abdelrahim
The talk is part of the seminar "Stress and Daily Life of the Middle Classes in China, Germany, India and Japan" held by Divyaraj Amiya (Indology), Felix Spremberg (Japanese Studies), and Ulrich Theobald (Chinese Studies)
16 July 2024
6pm (Germany), 9:30pm (India), 12 noon (EST) by Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/94593487878?pwd=eDdnQTV3aHMwTkxBazZ0N3l2R0MzUT09)