Webinar: Technology and the Apocalyptic Imaginary: Understanding AI through the Lens of Religion
Technology and the Apocalyptic Imaginary: Understanding AI through the Lens of Religion
16:00–17:30, Stockholm time (Zoom), on 7 October 2025
What can we learn about the apocalyptic imaginary through probing how AI and religion intersect? Why is new technology entangled with religious and eschatological thought? This webinar is a conversation between Professor Dr. Beth Singler (University of Zürich), an anthropologist of religion and author and editor of several books on AI and religion, and Amanda Lagerkvist from At the End of the World, Professor of media and communication studies and researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University.
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We look forward to seeing you there!
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Beth Singler is Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she is also the Co-Director of the University's Research Priority Programme (URPP) in Digital Religion(s), a member of the Directorate of the Digital Society Initiative, and co-lead of the Media Existential Encounters and Evolving Technology Lab.
Amanda Lagerkvist is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University.
Aaron James Goldman will chair the webinar. He is a research fellow in Philosophy of Religion at Lund University's Centre for Theology and Religious Studies.
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