Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life Series: The Shifting Paradigms of American Religion

Co-Sponsor: The Henry Luce Foundation

Speakers: Sylvester Johnson (Northwestern University) and Sharday C. Mosurinjohn (Queen’s University)

American responses to the rise of AI have been mixed: is Artificial Intelligence our friend, or our foe? Hope for the future, or our undoing? IRCPL’s “American Religion is…Human” program offers new ways of thinking about AI, humanity, and religion, going past the utopian-dystopian binaries that our public discourse is stuck in. We will think together about how the rise of potentially destabilizing AI technology might intersect productively with current efforts to rethink humanistic pedagogy and scholarship. Join IRCPL as we interrogate assumptions about religion’s “human-ness” and considerations of hierarchy and supremacy raised by the notion of religion as an innately human concept.

This series is made possible by generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Free and open to the public.

Registration is required. Please register in advance to reserve your spot.

All prospective attendees must register by 4:00PM on Sunday, October 27th. Registration will close at that time.