Presidential Faculty Award: "The New Chameleon: Simulation as a Paradigm Shift for Digital Humanism"

Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, "The New Chameleon: Simulation as a Paradigm Shift for Digital Humanism," featuring Massimo Riva, professor of Italian studies, coordinator of the Virtual Humanities Lab and affiliated professor of modern culture and media. In his talk, Riva retraced his journey as a digital humanist over the three and a half decades he has spent teaching at Brown. He reflected on his collaborative projects, focusing on "simulation" as a paradigmatic mode of knowledge in contemporary techno-humanism, and discussed how the long history of simulation within the humanistic tradition may offer useful insights as we face the challenges posed by artificial intelligence in our time.
Monday November 18, 2024
Brown University