“The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities”
March 21-22, 2024
THURSDAY MARCH 21
9:30: Opening Remarks
9:45: Welcome from Dr. Bill Fiege, President of Brightpoint Community College
SESSION #1 10:15-11:45
Moderator: TBA
• Dr. Shahidur Talukdar, Virginia Tech, Dr. Lisa Lee, Virginia Tech, and Dr. Christen Jandreau, Virginia Tech, “Does Generative Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat to the Humanities?”
• Dr. Lee Pierson, Thinking Skills Institute, “Is Artificial General Intelligence Already a Reality?: Refocusing, Centaurs, and the Need for the Humanities”
• Ryan Scott, Brightpoint Community College, “The Ethical Implications of Integrating AI and Healthcare”
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 12:00-1:30
Dr. Jennifer Rhee, Lab Director of the AI Futures Lab within the Humanities Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, “Emotion AI: Technologies of Deauthorization”
SESSION #2 1:45-3:15
Moderator: Dr. Sean Keck, Radford University
• Dina Smith-Glaviana, Caleb McIrvin, Chreston Miller, and Wen Nie Ng, Virginia Tech, “Using AI to Expand Metadata Standards for Historic Costume Collections”
• Dr. Joseph Dreiss, University of Mary Washington, “The Impact of AI on Contempoary Visual Art: An Overview and an Assessment of Value”
• Dr. Maria L. De Panbehchi, Brightpoint Community College, “What do we do with AI in the foreign language classroom?”
FRIDAY MARCH 22
SESSION #3 9:00-10:30
Moderator: Dr. Shiva Mainaly, North Dakota University
• Dr. Adrian Cook, Tarrant County College, “Experience is Evidence: Why I Will Ban ChatGPT in My Classroom”
• Dr. Jean Filetti, Christopher Newport University, “Using AI-Generated Assessment of Student Writing: One Faculty Member’s Experience and Students’ Response”
• Ryan Youell, Brightpoint Community College, “Equitable AI—Navigating the Ethical Landscape of AI in Composition Pedagogy”
SESSION #4 10:45-12:15
Moderator: Dr. Clayton Brooks, Mary Baldwin University
• Dr. Dawn Hutchinson, Christopher Newport University, “Conversations in the Classroom about AI”
• Dr. Sue Ann Curran, Brightpoint Community College, “The Logic and Promise of AI in Higher Education”
• Dr. Shahidur Talukdar, Virginia Tech, Md Mahim Anjum Haque, Luminary-AI, Syed Tauhidun Nabi, Virginia Tech, and Sagor Sikdar, Stony Brook University, “Impact of Technology on the Future of Course Development, Design, and Delivery”
SESSION #5A (Concurrent) 12:30-2:00
Moderator: Dr. Sean Keck, Radford University
• Dr. Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech, “Reading with Understanding: Getting to the Point with AI, without AI, and despite AI”
• Dr. Adam Fajardo, Mary Baldwin University, “Using LLMs to Increase StudentEngagement and Support Active Learning in Professional Writing Courses”
• Dr. Shiva Mainaly, North Dakota University, “A Looming Prospect of Post-plagiarism and Post-truth Landscape in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)”
SESSION #5B (Concurrent) 12:30-2:00
Moderator: Amanda Yanovitch, Brightpoint Community College
• Student Panel, Virginia’s Colleges and Universities, “Undergraduate Voices Across the Commonwealth”
SESSION #6 2:15-3:45
Delegate Meeting
