Time: August 11, 2023 (Fri.) (TAIPEI TIME)

         9:00-11:00 am

Venue: Zoom https://mit.zoom.us/j/97857527615 

Speaker: Alexa Alice Joubin (Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures, George Washington University)

Moderator: Pin-chia Feng (Lifetime Chair Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Abstract:

This illustrated presentation analyzes what generative AI tools can realistically accomplish in the higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, challenges are. It proposes new pedagogical strategies to teach with AI rather than against it. Since the AI is coded to produce syntheses of anonymized public voices in its datasets, it is a ghost and synthetic version of the publics. AI therefore changes the publics’ relationship to themselves.  

*Alexa Alice Joubin (https://ajoubin.org/) is the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award and holder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. She is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute and serves as a faculty senator.

主辦單位：中華民國英美文學學會