Invited Lecture, April 10, 2024
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), North East Asia Council (NEAC) Distinguished Lecture Series:“Robo-Buddhism: Kokoro, Technology, and Spirituality in Japan Today.”
Invited Keynote Lecture, March 11, 2024
Ethnography for HRI: Embodied, Embedded, Messy and Everyday. A workshop hosted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Human and Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, CO: “Doing Ethnography in Robotland: Warnings and Advice.”
Invited Lecture, February 16, 2024
Carnegie Mellon University, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), North East Asia Council (NEAC) Distinguished Lecture Series: “Robo-Sexism: Designing and Programming Gender in Robots and AI. Perspectives from Japan.”
Webinar: November 27, 2023
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo Public Lecture: “‘Securitainment’: Triangulations of Embodied AI, Entertainment, and Surveillance”
English: https://www.tc.u-
Japanese: https://www.tc.u-
Webinar: March 16 &17, 2023
Emory University The Emerging Technologies and the Future of the Humanities Series: “Emotional Robots and Digital Hormones: Japanese Perspectives on Technology, Religion, and Spirituality”
JR 16 March Emory poster & urls
Webinar: February 20, 2023
Tokyo College, University of Tokyo Public Lecture: Affective (kansei) Robotics in Japan: Designing and Programming Gender in AI and Humanoid Robots”
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Hybrid Event: April 13, 2022
Princeton University, Annual Marius Jansen Memorial Lecture: “Digital Hormones: Robotics, Emotions, and Techno-Spirituality in Japan”
https://eap.princeton.edu/events/annual-jansen-memorial-lecture-digital-hormones-robotics-emotions-and-techno-spirituality
(cut and paste into browser; Zoom presentation registration possible; recording available)
Hybrid Event: April 22, 2022
Cornell University Lecture: “Robo-Sexism: Gendering AI and Robots in Japan and the United States (and Elsewhere)”
Annual University Lecture (postponed from 2020), open to the public, co-sponsored by the following programs and departments: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; Anthropology; Asian Studies; History; Society for the Humanities; East Asia Program; Asian & Asian American Center; China and Asia-Pacific Studies.
https://events.cornell.edu/event/robo-sexism_gendering_ai_and_robots
Webinar: April 6-7, 2022
Keynote Lecture: “Robots, Religion, and Techno-Spirituality in Japan”
Graduate Student Conference, School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) and Department of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: “Technologies and Adaptations: Celebrating Innovations in Human Knowledge Across Asia”