AI at Small Liberal Arts Colleges 2025
Friday, April 4th
Noon – 4pm Preconference student workshop – Code & Beats: Soft Power in the DARQ Ages led by Daouda Leonard, founder and CEO of Create Safe.
4pm Is Liberal Arts Education Compatible with Generative AI? by Per Urlaub & Eva Dessein from MIT Global Languages in Ostrove Auditorium in the Diamond Building [Slide Deck]
Networking opportunities over dinner. Options include a Colby dining hall.
7pm Soft Power in the DARQ Ages in Page Commons. Daouda and his workshop students will demonstrate what they learned today about the obstacles, challenges and successes from working with AI.
Here is our A New Renaissance for AI in the Liberal Arts video highlight of the event [30 second version; 80 second version].
Saturday, April 5th – all events in the Diamond Building
Breakfast buffet available at 8am
8:20am Bagels & Bots seminar – Multimodal AI for Research and Teaching Tahiya Chowdhury (Colby College).
10am Panel #1: Ethical, Moral and Cultural Issues of AI. Moderated by Stacy Doore (Colby College). Panelists include Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin College) [Slide Deck], Diane Uwacu (Mount Holyoke College) [Slide Deck] and Sarah Sweeney (Skidmore College) [Slide Deck] [Sound File].
11am Panel #2: AI and Language. Moderated by Arne Koch (Colby College). Panelists include Per Urlaub (MIT) [Slide Deck], Junjie Luo (Gettysburg College) [Slide Deck] and Ghada Gherwash (Colby College).
noon Panel #3: The AI Teaching Conundrum: Adapt, Resist, or Redefine. Moderated by Jordan Troisi (Colby College). Panelists include Lew Ludwig (Denison University) and Lindsey Hamilton (Bates College). Slide Deck 1 [Introduction] and Slide Deck 2 [The Conundrum]
1 – 2pm Buffet lunch
2 pm Panel #4: Information Literacy in the Age of AI. Moderated by Michael Yankoski (Colby College). Panelists include Kara Kugelmeyer (Colby College) Susan Archambault (University of Washington/LMU ) and Jessica McCullough (Connecticut College). [Slide Deck]
3pm Snacks & Chats – Follow-up conversations with panelists and opportunities to experience multimodal AI applications hosted by students from the DavisAI Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Continue your conversations over dinner. Options include a Colby dining hall.
6:30pm Maine Film Center (downtown Waterville) public showing of the Oscar Award winning movie Her (set in 2025!). Introduction and discussion following the film by Veronica Romero (Colby College).
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