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Can a monkey own a selfie? Can androids be citizens?

Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of science fiction into the realm of the everyday, with scholars and laypeople alike struggling to find ways to grasp new notions of personhood. This talk will suggest that folklore is perhaps the ideal discipline for broaching such questions, necessitating a broadening the purview of folklore as a discipline to include nonhuman agents as well. There are two main threads of posthumanism: the first dealing with the increasingly slippery slope between “human” and “animal,” and the second dealing with artificial intelligences and the growing cyborg quality of human culture. Posthuman folklore deals with both these threads, seeking to understand the cultural roles of this shifting notion of “human” by centering its investigation into the performances of everyday life.

Master's student: Áslaug Haraldsdóttir

Title: Geometric properties of group actions on hyperbolic graphs

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Faculty: Faculty of Physical Sciences

Advisor:  Rögnvaldur G. Möller

Also in the masters committee: Jón Ingólfur Magnússon

Examiner: Henning Arnór Úlfarsson, Assistant Professor in Math at Reykjavik University

Abstract

IAESTE is a non-profit volunteer organisation with the goal of sending students abroad on internships and finding internships for foreign students here in Iceland.

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In this presentation we will go over what we do and answer questions that arise.

Green days take place at the University of Iceland on March 2 - 6. The theme this year is activism and finding solutions to the climate crisis. A variety of events are scheduled, such as conferences, markets and film screening. Green Days 2020 are organized by Gaia Iceland, the student organization for the Environment and Natural Resources master's program, in collaboration with the Environment and Transport Committee of the University of Iceland (Umhverfis- og samgöngunefnd SHÍ).

Six events are scheduled today at Green Days