Preliminary Programme
Below you will find the preliminary (subject to change) programme for the first hype conference: (Don't) believe the hype !? We are very excited to have received so many excellent and diverse contributions.
The full preliminary programme booklet with the titles and abstracts of the contributors, presentations, workshops and art works can be accessed here:
Below you find the preliminary programme schedule, which can also be downloaded here:
Day 1 | 10.09.2025
8.30 - 9:00: Registration
9:00 - 10:00: Welcome and program presentation
10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30: Panel session 1
1 AI Hype: Between Power and Resistance
2. Energy Hype: Green Futures and Controversies
3. Commodification, Libido and Emotions in Hype
4. Hype, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Emerging Technologies
5. Hype in Science and its Histories
12.30 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 -15:30: Workshop session 1
A. Speculative Hype VillageTM (Online)
B. Shitpublishing Workshop
C. Role of Metaphors and visualization in AI (Online)
D. A Quantum of Hope
E. Arts Exhibition Room
15:30 -16.00: Coffee break
16.00 -17.30: Keynote | Gemma Milne: Hype and the Age of Badness
Day 2 | 11.09.2025
9:00 - 11:00: Panel session 2
6. Socio-Ethical Dilemmas and Health Hype
7. Political Communication and Disinformation
8. Decoding Scripts and Rituals of Hype
9. Hype, Emotions and Panics
11. What Hype Obscures: Hidden Labour and Environmental Impacts
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30: Panel session 3
13. Materiality and Infrastructure of Hype
14. Awards, Fashions, and Social Dynamics
15. Hype, Culture & Identity
16. Music, Aesthetics and Theatre
17. Governing through Hype: Politics & Legitimacy
13.30 - 15:00: Lunch
15:00 -16:30: Workshop session 2
A. Fishbowl on Qualitative Digital Methods
B. Humbling Tech Hype: Assessing Change and Continuity
C. Creating a Cartography of Hype
D. Investigating Datasets - The underbelly of the AI Hype
E. Hype Was Here: Tracing the ghosts of collective excitement
F. Arts Exhibition Room
16:30 - 17.00: Coffee break
17:00 - 19.00: Panel discussion: Panelists to be announced!
20:00 - Whoop: Party!
Day 3 | 12.09.2025
10:00 - 12:00: Panel session 4
16. AI in Daily Life: Affective and Everyday Interventions
17. Hype, Education, and Public Communication
18. Intervening with the AI Hype
19. Hype and Resistance: Alternative Futures
20. Towards New Theorizations of Hype
12:15 - 13:00: Video screening
13.30 - 15.00: Lunch
15:00 -16:30: Workshop session C
A. Queering Hype
B. When Hype breaks the City
C. Detectives of Hype
D. Caring Trickster
E. Digging into Hype: Multiplayer Mining for Meaning (online)
F. Arts Exhibition Room
16:30 -17:00: Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00: Closing of the conference