Artificial intelligence is reshaping the conditions of human agency, identity, and autonomy at a pace that outstrips our capacity to understand it. Algorithms increasingly mediate how we work, learn, form relationships, and understand ourselves. This Europaeum Winter School will examine how our individuality is destabilised when our preferences are predicted, our choices shaped by recommendation systems, or our creative and intellectual labour replicated. It will engage questions of how personal autonomy can be protected in algorithmically mediated societies, how work and human purpose can survive advances in automation, and what issues of accountability, consent, and dignity arise in human-AI interaction.
Applicants must be Master’s or PhD students enrolled at a university or a department that is a member of the Europaeum network.
To apply, please send your completed application form, brief CV and statement of purpose (up to 500 words) to applications@europaeum.org. One academic reference should also be sent directly by your referee to the same email by the deadline. If also applying to present a paper, please include a short abstract of the proposed paper (up to 500 words).
Deadline for submission of applications: 19 October 2026
For more information: https://europaeum.org/cfa-the-winter-school-2027-on-the-individual-in-the-age-of-ai/