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LECTURE | Simone Browne

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October 10, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
WOSU Ross Community Studio

This lecture is part of the Global Arts + Humanities' Society of Fellows 2025-26 event series, "Artificial Intelligence: Propositions from the Arts + Humanities" — a series of lectures by artists and scholars whose work foregrounds the ethical obligations arising from the simulation of human intelligence and increased surveillance.

Simone Browne is an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the social and ethical implications of surveillance, both AI-enabled and not. She is the author of the award-winning book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. 

Moderator: Sampada Aranke, Associate Professor of History of Art and Comparative Studies