Events

Date: November 26, 2025 Time: 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Address: Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Vienna Location: Seminar Room 3 (Institute of Sociology) Link: Communicative AI and Digital Companionship Speakers: Michaela Pfadenhauer, Andrea Heisse, and Marvin Waibel (P7) Abstract: Within the DFG and FWF-funded research group FOR 5656 “ComAI: The Automation of Social Communication,” the Vienna-based (…)

Filmreihe “Caring Democracies – Caring Technologies” in Graz The CIRAC (Center for Interdisciplinary Ageing and Care Research) at the University of Graz is organizing a film series in the winter semester on the theme “Caring Democracies – Caring Technologies.” It features films that explore how technologies are transforming the practices and policies of care in democracies. Who (…)

The CIRAC (Center for Interdisciplinary Ageing and Care Research) at the University of Graz is organizing a film series in the winter semester on the theme “Caring Democracies – Caring Technologies.” It features films that explore how technologies are transforming the practices and policies of care in democracies. Who assumes responsibility for sustainable and inclusive (…)

Date: 25.11.2025 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract AI promises speed, efficiency, and seamless automation, yet in pursuing these ideals, we risk marginalizing practices and temporalities that matter: slowness, reflection, imperfection, and the capacity to linger. This talk reframes the conversation about AI futures by focusing not only on what is to come, but on what (…)

Date: 27. January 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract With over 300 million people in need of humanitarian assistance and with emergencies and climate disasters becoming more common, AI and data are being championed as forces for good and as solutions to the complex challenges of the aid sector. In this talk based on my (…)

Date: 13. January 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract One of the paradoxes of AI is that it is a global phenomenon, but at the same time, it is always situated in specific, local contexts and cultures. While approaches that aim to study local cultures of AI are important, there is the risk of neglecting (…)

Date: 4. November 2025 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract This talk examines the shared implications of emerging AI technologies across media industries. Advancements in generative artificial intelligence are bringing rapid changes to communication industries. AI applications can perform increasingly human-like roles in the communication process and, as such, can augment and even automate human media (…)

We are very pleased to announce that the “ComAI Lectures” Series will soon be starting a new round. For the first time, we have also planned a three-hour workshop. This will take place on 30 September from 10:00 to 13:00 in the conference room at ZeMKI.Our guests will be Prof. Dr. Nathan Schneider (University of (…)

On September 30, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., the workshop “Protocols and Intellectual Landscapes of AI” will take place in the meeting room of ZeMKI (Linzer Str. 4, Bremen) as part of the ComAI Lectures series. Abstract: The workshop aims to explore the concepts of “protocological governance” and “intellectual landscape”, and their interconnectedness. “Protocological governance” seeks (…)

In June 2025, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen, spokesperson of the research group Communicative AI) will address key questions on the transformation of public communication and the digital futures of communicative AI at two renowned events: 24 June 2025 – “AI meets humanities & social sciences” (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) In (…)

On June 3 and 4, leading international scholars will discuss key issues of technology and power at the conference “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” in Bremen. The final program is now released.AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 Date and Location: 3-4 June 2025, BremenHost: Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT);Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI);University of (…)

On Monday, June 30, 2025, the ComAI Lecture on “AI within Public Online Discourse” with Dr. Dennis Frieß from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf will take place at the Bremen Press Club. In his lecture, Frieß will focus on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in public online discourse and present three research projects. The first (…)