From Čapek to Lem: AI in Eastern European Science Fiction [workshop]

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University are delighted to announce a series of three workshops focusing on AI narratives in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Jewish imaginary, Eastern European science fiction, and the contemporary perceptions of AI in the region.

We cordially invite you to join our next online event From Čapek to Lem: AI in Eastern European Science Fiction on 15th January, 2021.

Karel Čapek was a Czech playwright who coined the word “robot” – used for the first time in the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered on 25 January 1921, exactly a century ago. Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction writer and philosopher, and the author of Solaris (1961) and The Futurological Congress (1971). Lem was born in 1921 and, to mark the anniversary, 2021 has been declared ‘the year of Lem’ in Poland. Our workshop is a celebration of these two centenaries, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Prior registration is necessary.