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Decolonial Feminist Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Mihir Sharma (U Bremen)

06/19/2025 2:00 pm –7:45 pm

U Bremen GW1

This symposium seeks to explore the possibilities and contradictions surrounding AI. It brings together decolonial feminist perspectives and research on artificial intelligence and opens a space for critical reflection on living with and thinking about ethical futures in relation to AI. Through a transnational approach, the symposium foregrounds diverse positionalities, contested imaginaries, and political struggles that shape — and unshape — the trajectories and ideologies of AI technologies and ethics.


To participate please contact Dr. Nurhak Polat (RTG Contradiction Studies / Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research, U Bremen) or Dr. Mihir Sharma (Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research, U Bremen).

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