Events

Date: 20. January 2027 Time: 18:30 Street: Domshof 26, 28195 Bremen (Universität Bremen) Location: Forum im Domshof Room: Kassenhalle Abstract Shared matters of concern are fundamental to democratic life. Publics do not simply exist; they form around problems, controversies and consequences that come to matter. As Marres succinctly puts it: “no issue, no public.” But what happens when the conditions (…)

Date: 9. December 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Domshof 26, 28195 Bremen (Universität Bremen) Location: Forum im Domshof Room: Kassenhalle Abstract Can a robot teach a class? Can a chatbot earn a student’s trust? For over a decade, our research has put machines in the teacher’s chair: a bot answering health questions on Twitter, a telepresence robot delivering a business lecture, (…)

Date: 25. November 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Domshof 26, 28195 Bremen (Universität Bremen) Location: Forum im Domshof Room: Kassenhalle Abstract In this talk, I describe and contextualize so-called “AI” by addressing, then quickly moving on from, its origins, technological underpinnings and specificities and turn to its deployment and rhetorical social and political dimensions and functions. For that, I introduce the (…)

Date: 4. November 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Domshof 26, 28195 Bremen (Universität Bremen) Location: Forum im Domshof Room: Kassenhalle Abstract In this presentation, I introduce and develop the concept of boutique media to describe small-scale, personality-driven and affectively charged forms of journalism emerging in the wake of the decline of industrial news production. The presentation examines how journalists and other news creators (…)

On Thursday, September 3, at 4:00 p.m., the Diversity & Gender Equality Working Group of the ComAI Research Group invites you to a book presentation of “Data Feminism” as part of its internal lecture series. Together with Prof. Lauren F. Klein (Emory University, USA), the book’s co-author, we would like to discuss the role of data (…)

‚Academic Kindness‘ is sometimes reduced to a friendly way of dealing with each other in research and teaching contexts: to communicate appreciatively, practice constructive criticism and gratefulness. However, these individual practices of kindness are only one piece of the whole puzzle of ‘academic kindness’. In this workshop we will reflect our own positionality and responsibilities (…)

The ComAI research group (FOR 5656 »Communicative AI«) and the Knowledge Sociology Section of the German Sociological Association (DGS) warmly invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop “Von Gegenwartsanalysen zum Futuring. Methods for the Future-Oriented Generation of Practice and Knowledge”. The workshop will take place on 28 and 29 May 2026 at the Haus der Wissenschaft (…)

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the ComAI research group’s Diversity & Gender Equality Working Group launches its new internal Lecture Series with a talk by Katharina Mosene (Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans Bredow Institute). Under the title AI, Discrimination & Stereotypes, Mosene examines how communicative AI systems – particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) (…)

Date: June 23, 2026 Time: 6:30 pm Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremen Press-Club Abstract This talk discusses how data donation infrastructures can be used to study political behaviour on social media platforms. It introduces data donation as a way to access user-centric traces of political information exposure and engagement that are otherwise difficult to obtain, and reflects on key (…)

Datum: 16. June 2026 Time: 18:30 Street: Schnoor 27 Location: Bremer Presse-Club Abstract This presentation examines worker-led AI governance, understood as the collective ability of workers, through unions, cooperatives, grassroots collectives, and social movements, to shape how AI is used, managed, deployed, negotiated, or refused at work. Grounded in ongoing empirical research with cultural workers across the Americas, the (…)

Date: 26. May 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 (…)