Together with colleagues from Toyota Research Institute (USA), ESIC University (Spain), and the University of Groeningen (Netherlands), Dr. Lora Koycheva is co-convening a lab at the biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) event in Poznań, Poland, at Adam Mickiewicz University.

Lusatia is now Europe’s first Net Zero Valley! At the BTU Cental Campus Cottbus – in the heart of a top-class research landscape – we will discuss the future of cleantech.

Anthropoloy and AI: On Faculty and Program Readiness

TATuP Talk "Are deeply sustainable technologies possible?" with Karen Kastenhofer, Astrid Schwarz, Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Andrea Vetter, and Leonie Seng.

Astrid Schwarz is on stage as an AI-animated, speaking portrait in the performance of H.G. Wells’ *The Time Machine* (1895).

Together with a colleague from Aalborg University, Dr. Lora Koycheva is co-convening a panel at this year's DASTS conference in Aalborg University, Copenhagen, June 29-30, 2026. The panel is on the topic "The Interpretive Layer: Expertise as Infrastructure in Sociotechnical Systems"

With its early-career fellowship program, the Collegium Helveticum supports outstandingly promising academics and artists at a critical stage of their career. The program is designed to encourage work that cuts across and transgresses disciplinary boundaries in unconventional ways.