Workshop: Putting AI to Work to Promote Certain Values
Jocelyn Maclure will be presenting a lecture titled "Why the Value-Alignment Approach is Misguided" at the Putting AI to Work to Promote Certain Values Workshop as a part of the IVADO Thematic Semester.
Workshop InformationDate and Time: October 19-23, 2026. 9am - 5pm
Location: Hôtel 71, 71 Saint-Pierre street, Québec City, QC, G1K 4A4
Jarislowsky Lecture Series: Jennifer Nagel, "Natural and Mechanical Conversations"
Date: October 22, 2026
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Location: Thomson House, Ballroom, 3650 Rue McTavish
Informal Seminar with Jennifer Nagel: "Human Rationality as a Natural Phenomenon"
Date: October 23, 2026
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Leacock Room 927
To Register, email: amelia.kush [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Opening Keynote at "Les professions juridiques à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle" Colloquium
Jocelyn Maclure will be presenting the opening keynote at the colloquium "Les professions juridiques à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle" hosted at Université Laval.
Title of the keynote: "L’intelligence artificelle : une révolution sous contrôle?"
Date: November 6, 2026
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Will Kymlicka - Charles Taylor Lecture Series
The 2026 Charles Taylor Lecture Series welcomes Will Kymlicka for two talks on "An Ethics of Membership for Diverse Societies". The first lecture will be held at McGill University, the second at Concordia University.
Lecture 1: The Need for an Ethics of MembershipDate: November 12, 2026
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Public Reason, Epistemic Deference and AI’s Explainability Problem at UC Louvain
Jocelyn Maclure will be presenting a lecture titled "Public Reason, Epistemic Deference and AI’s Explainability Problem" at Université catholique de Louvain.
Date: December 10, 2026
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Université catholique de Louvain, Room D.041 Dupriez Building, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium