The Käte Hamburger Kolleg Aachen: Cultures of Research is pleased to announce its upcoming lecture series “Digital Complexity: Beyond Human Understanding” in the summer term 2026. Lectures will take place on Wednesdays from 5:00pm to 6:30pm (CET), starting 15 April. To attend online or in person please contact events@khk.rwth-aachen.de, either specifying the date of your in-person attendance or to register for online participation for the entire series. We will then send you an email with the zoom link and all the necessary information prior to the individual lectures. The link will stay valid for all talks in the series.
Program
15.04. Judith Simon (University of Hamburg) – Dis/Trusting AI? Assessing Four Types of Deception Through AI
29.04. Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen University) – Digital Complexity: De-Anthropological Trends in Computing, AI, and Robotics
13.05. Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh) – Inferential Blueprints and Windows on Reality
03.06. M. Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex) – Causation as Sign Action: Semiotic Empiricism and the Causal Complexity of Large Language Models
17.06. Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg) – Cybernetics and Critique: A Theory of Digital Governmentality
01.07. Yi Gu (University of Toronto) – The Stack of Territory: Digital Complexity and the Making of Geospatial Infrastructures in China
22.07. Sybille Krämer (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) – Artificial Intelligence as Cultural Technique: Do Chatbots Understand What They Communicate?