AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Date and Location: April 16-18, 2025 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois

Abstracts: 150 word abstracts are due November 1, 2024. Send to Dr. Katherine Ellison at [email protected]

Generative artificial intelligence, large language processing models, advanced analytics, reinforced and unsupervised machine learning, predictive prose. Humanist scholars and educators outside of computer science, mathematics, engineering, and cognitive science are now versed in the terminology of AI, but conversations about the potential epistemological, ethical, existential, and pedagogical impact of technologies of human behavior simulation are still young. This symposium will invite us to address big picture questions like:

The Illinois State University AI and the Humanities Symposium is a unique opportunity to foster discussion among scholars, teachers, and students from around the world and across disciplines of the humanities, arts, and connected social sciences. We welcome proposals from technical writers and philosophers, literary critics and economists, language scholars and anthropologists, publishers and linguists, creative writers and sociologists, historians and artists, higher education faculty and primary and secondary educators, and any other related discipline or interdisciplinary field.

Formal and informal panel proposals, individual paper proposals, roundtable proposals (with a group formed or not yet formed), and interactive activities are invited internationally. Please submit a 150-word abstract to Dr. Katherine Ellison at [email protected] by November 1, 2024.

Hosted by the Departments of English, Philosophy, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the School of Communication, and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University.