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Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 1

Literature Talk

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 2

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 3

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 4

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 5

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech

Literature Talk

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 2

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 3

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 4

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 5

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech

Burns Park

Victorian mothers wrote letters to dead sons; today we text AI ghosts. This lecture traces how grief tech, from Spiritualism to chatbots, reveals our stubborn refusal to let go, and asks whether digital immortality heals or haunts.

academic lecture

AI ethics

thought-provoking

free event

Tips

🐠check out the famous fishbowl study spot

💬Victorian séances meet modern AI

🎓free and open to the public

Angell Hall

435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Free

events.umich.edu

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech

Burns Park

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 1

Literature Talk

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 2

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 3

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 4

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 5

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech

Literature Talk

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 2

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 3

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 4

Nineteenth-Century Forum: Grief Tech 5

Victorian mothers wrote letters to dead sons; today we text AI ghosts. This lecture traces how grief tech, from Spiritualism to chatbots, reveals our stubborn refusal to let go, and asks whether digital immortality heals or haunts.

academic lecture

AI ethics

thought-provoking

free event

Tips

🐠check out the famous fishbowl study spot

💬Victorian séances meet modern AI

🎓free and open to the public

Angell Hall

435 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Free

events.umich.edu

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