2024 - 2025 Theme Year "Negotiating AI Negotiating Culture"

Marquee Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Dick (Simon Fraser University) April 8, 2025

Historian of science with a focus on computing, mathematics, and artificial intelligence since the second world work, Dr. Dick is co-editor (with Janet Abbate) of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (2022). Her research and teaching are informed by her background in STS and History of Science, and her book project, Making Up Minds: Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States explores attempts to reproduce human intelligence, mathematical intelligence in particular, in computers and the theories of human cognitive faculties that informed these efforts. As co-organizer in 2020 of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar "Histories of AI: A Geneaology of Power" at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Dick's visit will help bring to OU a historical perspective on the promises and problematics of AI and machine learning.

Monthly AI & Humanities Roundtables (noon-1:30pm):

9/12 - Intellectual and Cultural History of AI (Featuring Hunter Heyck, Suzanne Moon, Peter Soppelsa, and Rebecca Hussey)

10/3 - Arts Practice and Technology with AI (Featuring Peter Froslie, Chris Morley, and Rene Peralta)

10/31 - Digital Humanities Tools and AI (Featuring Sam Hussey, Chris Weaver, and Andrew Fagg)

1/31 - Aesthetic Philosophy and AI (Featuring Julia Abramson, Babak Khoshroo, Sherri Irvin, and Robert Bailey)

2/27 - Native American Arts theory and AI (speakers TBA)

3/27 - Trust, Governance and AI (Featuring Mark Raymond, Stacey Tovino, Tracy Pearl, and Matt Jensen)

Open to the public, faculty, staff, and students with pre-registration. Location provided upon registration

Forum Public Fellow AI Projects:

Cyborg Networks: The Social Hierarchy of Artificial Intelligence at Work - Melinda Chen [DFCAS – Womens and Gender Studies] & Heyjie Jung [DFCAS – Political Science]

Community-Building Initiative

AI Salon - Julia Abramson [DFCAS – Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics]

Outreach Initiative to partner with K-12 French Language teachers around AI possibilities and pitfalls in French Language instruction.

Pandora’s Black Box: Is Artificial Intelligence a Tool of Hope or Horror? - Rebecca Huskey [DFCAS – Classics & Letters]

September 19, 2024: Panel discussion with Rebecca Huskey (Classics & Letters), Adam Green (Philosophy), and guest scholar Ronald Kneusel.

Training the Eye: The Intersection of AI, Visual Literacy, and Art Historical Analysis - Lucia Colombari [School of Fine Arts/College of Visual Arts] K-12 Outreach Initiative

August 15, 2024: Day-Long Workshop on Negotiating AI Negotiating Culture (for Public Fellows)