Home
/
Academic Programs
/
Automatons Lecture Series

Automatons Lecture Series

Automatons! From Ovid to AI is a King’s jointly-offered course in Contemporary Studies, Early Modern Studies and the History of Science and Technology. It is being presented as a public lecture series, and features guest speakers in a variety of fields of expertise.

News

Lectures in this series

Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”

January 10, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.


Imagining Automatons – Dr. Teresa Heffernan

January 17, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 


Ancient Automatons – Courtney Ann Roby

January 25, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 


Artificial Intelligence: Successes & Challenges – Dr. Stan Matwin and Dr. Teresa Heffernan

February 14, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 



Imagined Puppet Life – Dr. Dawn Brandes

February 28, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 



Asian Robots & Orientalism – Dr. Simon Kow

March 7, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 


War in the Age of Intelligent Machines – Dr. Noel Sharkey and Dr. Duncan McIntosh

March 21, 2018, Scotiabank Auditorium, Saint Mary’s University.


Unmaking People: The Politics of Negation from Frankenstein to Westworld –  Dr. Despina Kakoudaki

March 29, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.

 


Making Up Minds: Thinking With, About and For Humans – Dr. Stephanie Dick

April 4, 2018, Alumni Hall, University of King’s College.