Chris Mitsch, “AI and the Liberal Arts”
4:30–6PM
Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
4:30–6PM
Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
Screening of the documentary “Bonecrusher” followed by a Q&A with the director — Bucknell alumnus, Michael Fountain ’91 — and panel discussion with several members of the Humanities Center alumni advisory council about the role that the humanities played in their lives and careers.
Thursday, April 9, 2026: 4:30–6PM
Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room
March 26, 2026, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Hildreth-Mirza Hall Great Room How did AI become conflated with human intelligence, and how is this myth being used to build infrastructure, rewrite laws, and alter norms that will fundamentally change how we work, recreate, communicate…and ultimately think about what it means to be human? Based on a two-part documentary produced in collaboration with Cornell University. Funding provided by the Departments of Music, Philosophy, the Dominguez Center for Data Science, and the University Lectureship Committee.
Wednesday, March 25, 20267:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Elaine Langone Center, 213 – Walls Lounge Ways of Knowing: a sonic celebration of the humanities. For 70 minutes you are going to put on an eye mask, sit in the dark, and be taken on a sonic trip that asks you to rethink the world through your ears instead of your eyes. You’ll hear everything from the vibrations of the Golden Gate Bridge, footsteps of ants, and ancient Latin, to the first piece of musique concrete, recordings of Berlin made in 1930, a sonified essay about the gendering of glial cells, and the theory […]