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Topic 

A collection of interdisciplinary approaches to robots and emotions

Abstract

 (MIT Press 2025) is a collection of pieces about robot-human emotions. This talk will present some of the insights its authors bring from fields as varied as critical studies, anthropology, HRI, design fiction, and sociology. But I will also reflect on the process and experience of drawing together these different voices into a conversation – first at a workshop and then in the book – and what the tensions and commonalities between our various methods and theoretical stances do for exploring questions about the robot-emotion relation.

About the speaker

Ericka Johnson is Professor of gender and society, Linköping University, Sweden and director of the Swedish national graduate school for the Wallenberg AI, autonomous systems and software program – Humanity and Society. She has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, gender studies, and science & technology studies. Johnson is the author of several monographs and anthologies, including A Cultural Biography of the Prostate (MIT Press 2021) and editor of How that Robot Made Me Feel (MIT Press 2025). She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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Your host

Giulia Perugia of the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences will host Professor Ericka Johnson of Linköping University.

Registration is required but free of charge.