Online Seminar Digital Emotional Governance Series
The Jellinek Centre in cooperation with the Department of Geography and the University of Birmingham is organizing an ONLINE Seminar Series on Digital Emotional Governance. It encompasses four online lectures in 2026 of which two take place this summer.
Join us for an online seminar series exploring how emotions are measured, managed, and mobilised through digital technologies and data-driven governance. Sessions will examine topics such as affective and embodied computing, algorithmic decision-making, biometric surveillance, histories and futures of affect cultures, the strengths and weaknesses of anticipatory ethics, digital and embodied warfare, and the politics of emotional AI. The seminars are online and open to all.
With these talks we will generate discussion on the implications of emerging emotion sensing technologies for public policy, ethics, and everyday life in a digitally mediated world. Speakers provide critical perspectives on technology, governance, and society. Engage with leading thinkers and contribute to global conversations on the future of digital emotional governance.
Organisers
The series is organised by Jessica Pykett, University of Birmingham and Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Heidelberg University. Jessica is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Wellbeing, Principal Investigator of the ESRC Ethics and Expertise project and Co-Investigator at the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures. Tabea is Co-Director of the Heidelberg Centre of the Environment, founding member and Co-Investigator at the Camilla and Georg Jellinek Centre for Ethics, Heidelberg University.
