Germanic Languages and Literatures

Thursday, November 6, 2025

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  Food For Thought | Lei Zhao and Jozsef Balogh

  11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

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  Courtney Handman | AI and the Race for Interspecies Communication

  12:00 - 1:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208

  In contrast to the moral panics about the ways that AI chatbots may be shrinking people’s social worlds by replacing human-to-human interaction, there is an incredible optimism in some corners that AI will radically open up the social world to include animals, enhancing or enabling new forms of interspecies communication.

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