
BIOGRAPHY
Bart Barendregt is a professor Digital Anthropology at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology (CADS) as well as the UNESCO Chair of the Anthropology of Digital Diversity. He is the current vice dean for research at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and dean of its Graduate School. Bart’s research and teaching straddles the fields of religious, social technology and area studies with a particular focus on the study of meaning-making processes through new emergent technologies. Most of Bart’s ethnographic projects have focused on Muslim Southeast Asia, where since the early nineties he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the NWO-VICI project One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam.