Can artificial intelligence determine who poses a risk, who may cross the border, and who remains in front of it?
On Friday, October 30, 2026, at 3:00 PM, we will host Prof. Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi, Associate Professor at Alma Mater, in an online lecture at the ISH Faculty, where he will present how artificial intelligence, biometric technologies, and digital surveillance are transforming migration and affecting human rights.
When a Human Becomes Data
Imagine a person's future being shaped by a risk assessment in a database, biometric data, or an algorithm that the individual cannot verify. These are precisely the kinds of systems the speaker will address in the lecture “From Necropolitics to Techno-Necrocracy: Migrant Disposability in the Age of Coded Borders”.
He will present the concept of techno-necrocracy, which he uses to describe contemporary border control regimes in which the power to decide migrants' lives is distributed among state institutions, databases, biometric devices, and private companies.
Using examples of U.S. immigration control, rapid DNA testing, the militarization of the English Channel, and algorithmic pattern recognition, he will explore how digital systems can preserve and deepen racial bias, inequalities, and forms of violence.
He will also pay special attention to the question of how human bodies are being turned into data, and migrants into categories of risk and economic interest.
Human Futures: Conversations on the Future of Humanity and Technology
The lecture is the second in the international series Human Futures: Dialogues on Technology, World, and Meaning, through which the ISH Faculty of Alma Mater Europaea University opens a space for reflection on the impact of technology on human beings, society, and our future.
The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Lenart Škof, Dean of the ISH Faculty.
Prof. Dr. Om Prakash Dwivedi is a Professor of English and Founding Director of the Institute of Liberal Arts and Humanities at Chandigarh University in India, and an Associate Professor at Alma Mater Europaea University.
His research focuses on postcolonial studies, social inequalities, vulnerability, and contemporary cultural and social issues. He is the author or co-editor of several scholarly publications, including Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability (2024) and Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature (2023).
