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

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)