Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent awarded an SNSF Ambizione Grant

Two Awards at SACM 2025 for the Media Change and Innovation Division

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

Generative AI is Taking Over Everyday Life in Switzerland: From Experimentation to Regular Use

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

“Artificial Intelligence” in Switzerland 2024: Rapid Diffusion and Increasing Digital Inequality

This research was conducted as part of the Phoenix project. It forms a part of a broader SMEX-led initiative to develop a Regional Digital Rights Strategy that strengthens the capacity of civil society across MENA to understand, respond to, and coordinate against digital authoritarianism.

Portulans Institute Senior Fellow Shylesh Muralidharan was featured in The Hindu’s October 2, 2026 article, “Karnataka’s drive to green data centres,” by Shilpa Elizabeth. The article examines Karnataka’s Sustainable Data Centre Policy 2026–2031, which aims to expand the state’s data centre capacity while encouraging renewable energy use and water efficiency.

Call for Applications: Research and Project Lead: AI, Skills and the Future of Work
Organization: Portulans Institute
Appointment: Full-time, fixed-term, November 1, 2026–March 15, 2027
Location: Remote; applications welcome worldwide. Regular availability for collaboration across US Eastern and European working hours is required. Working from Portulans Institute’s Washington, DC office is optional for locally based candidates.
Priority application deadline: October 18, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the Cleveringa Lecture, entitledBetween Power and Possibility: The Case for Hope in International Law.

 
Date: November 2, 2026
Time (Montreal): 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Location: Salon François-Chevrette and Zoom
Speaker: Jason Rudall

Nous somme heureux de vous inviter à la conférence Cleveringa, intitulée « Entre le pouvoir et la possibilité : plaidoyer pour l’espoir en droit international ».

The Institute for Informatics-Didactics at the Faculty of Technical Sciences is seeking to fill the following position as soon as possible: University Assistant
Employment level: 100 % (40 hours per week)
Minimum salary: € 52,865.40 gross per year; classification according to Uni-KV: B1
Time limit: 4 years
Application deadline: October 28, 2026
Identifier: 485/26

Our programme offers participants a unique opportunity to explore the actual impacts of AI applications on society and the environment.
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We are seeking organisations (NGOs, companies or research institutions) that run AI projects and would like to participate in a voluntary impact assessment.
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Simone Casiraghi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral researcher at IViR, where he will be conducting the project “Systemic Risks and Fundamental Rights: investigating Risk Assessments in the Digital Services Act” under the supervision of Joris van Hoboken.
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Save the Date for the next GloCo Conference
“A Kaleidoscope of Peace” 
12.11.2026
10:00 UTC
Der Beitrag Save the Date for the next GloCo Conference “A Kaleidoscope of Peace” erschien zuerst auf University of Klagenfurt.