#  How is digital technology shaping the human soul? 

 



    ![Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect, 1828.](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2025-09/march-1.png?itok=vTmWu1DT) 

 



 

####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 1, 2025** 

 03:30PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Thompson Room (Barker Center 110)**  

 [12 Quincy St  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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Digital technology is transforming how we think, write, and connect. Does it stifle creativity and wonder, or open new paths for meaning, community, and faith? Join speakers Nataliya Kos'myna, Brandon Vaidyanathan, E. Glen Weyl, and Moira Weigel as they explore how digital technology shapes the way we think, feel, act and understand the human condition. This will be the inaugural event of the *Public Culture Project,* an initiative based in the office of the Dean of Arts &amp; Humanities.

Event image is "The March of the Intellect" by Robert Seymour, ca. 1828 via [PDR](https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/march-of-the-intellect/).



 

  [### Nataliya Kos'myna

 ](/people/nataliya-kosmyna)Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group

Visiting Research Faculty, Google

 

 

 

      ![Headshot of Nataliya Kos'myna.](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/1713353579506.jpeg?h=a15ef5ea&itok=-ZxM7n9V) 

 

 

 

   [### Brandon Vaidyanathan

 ](/people/brandon-vaidyanathan)Professor of Sociology, Catholic University of America

Director of the Institutional Flourishing Lab, Catholic University of America

 

 

 

      ![Headshot of Brandon Vaidyanathan.](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/sociology-chair.jpg?itok=oE7ta0Da) 

 

 

 

   [### E. Glen Weyl

 ](/people/e-glen-weyl)Research Lead, Microsoft Research Special Projects, The Plural Technology Collaboratory

Founder and Chair, The Plurality Institute

Founder, RadicalxChange Foundation

 

 

 

      ![Headshot of E. Glen Weyl](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/1666379889022.jpeg?itok=gXNrXaG8) 

 

 

 

   [### Moira Weigel

 ](/people/moira-weigel)Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

Faculty Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

 

 

 

      ![Headshot of Moira Weigel.](/sites/g/files/omnuum756/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Weigel-1-scaled-e1715889374659-qo9e5fgk55weyn8x1e5xfexps3gefayvn1gb2fv2ms.jpg?itok=4fHh8Jig) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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