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AI Webinar Series
Faculty of Arts, Social Science and Law
Department of Sociology

A cross-disciplinary webinar

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Sociology in the
Artificial Intelligence
Era

A conversation on how machine intelligence is rewriting the methods, ethics and imaginaries of social research — between computer science and the sociological tradition.

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When
30th
June 2026
Time
19:30
GMT+6 · Dhaka
Duration 90 min Q&A included
Methods Ethics Data Justice Algorithms & Society Fieldwork in the Age of AI Machine Learning Qualitative Research

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§ 01 · About

Two disciplines, one conversation.

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant technical horizon. It now writes policy, sorts data, mediates memory and quietly reshapes how social life is observed, described and theorised.

This webinar stages an encounter between two standpoints: the engineering perspective of computer science, and the interpretive tradition of sociology. Rather than a celebration or a warning, we ask the harder question — what does it mean to study society when society is increasingly studied by machines?

PILLAR 01

Method

From surveys to embeddings — new repertoires for gathering social evidence.

PILLAR 02

Ethics

Consent, bias, and the politics of automated interpretation.

PILLAR 03

Imagination

What sociology owes to — and learns from — intelligent machines.

§ 02 · Voices in the room

The speakers

Mamoon A. Rasheed
External · CS
Speaker 01
— the engineer

Mamoon A. Rasheed

Associate Professor · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Scholars

Mamoon A. Rasheed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Scholars, with twenty years of experience in teaching and administration. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the City University of New York, alongside a Master's in Information Technology and a Master's in Development Studies from the University of Dhaka. A seasoned quality-assurance expert who worked on the World Bank and UGC funded HEQEP, he now serves as Director of the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell at University of Scholars. He is also a prolific writer and translator, having rendered essays by Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek, Jaron Lanier and others into Bengali.

Computer Science & Engineering Academic Quality Assurance Writing & Translation
Afrida Nawar Evana
Internal · Sociology
Speaker 02
— the sociologist

Afrida Nawar Evana

Lecturer · Department of Sociology, Bangladesh University

Afrida Nawar Evana serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Bangladesh University, where she contributes to the academic life of the department through teaching, scholarship and the mentorship of students. As a member of the faculty, she brings a considered sociological perspective to the conversations and curriculum of the department, and she joins this webinar in her capacity as a Lecturer of the Department of Sociology, Bangladesh University.

Sociology Society & Technology Higher Education

§ 03 · Programme

Ninety minutes, well spent.

A short, dense programme: two talks and an open window for your questions. Below is the running order.

01

Opening & framing

A short introduction to the series and the evening's question.

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Talk 01 — Mamoon A. Rasheed

What AI is, what it isn't, and the responsibilities of those who build it.

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Talk 02 — Afrida Nawar Evana

Reading society through algorithms: a sociological response.

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Open Q&A & closing

Your questions, addressed live. The floor is yours.

To study society today is also to study the machines that study society. There is no outside position.

— Framing note

§ 04 · Reserve a seat

Join us on June 30.

Registration is free and open. The Zoom webinar link will be available on this page on 30th June. Questions are taken in order of arrival.

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