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  • DESIGN JUSTICE AI
  • Global Humanities Post-Institute
  • Event Date: May 08, 2025
  • Event Time: 10am-5:30pm
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  • We conclude last July’s Mellon-CHCI Global Humanities Institute with a post-institute that features four panels from our continuing work in DESIGN JUSTICE AI.

  • Location: 302 Murray Hall, 510 George St, New Brunswick

  • Design Justice Post Institute Flyer

    Program

    Panel 1: DESIGN JUSTICE AI: Why the Local Matters

    10am-11:30 Eastern

    For hybrid registration, click here. 

    Vukosi Marivate (U Pretoria) and Happy Buzaaba (Princeton) discuss recent work on adapting large language models for Natural Language Processing tasks in “low-resource” African languages.

    Moderator: Eleni Coundouriotis

    Coffee Break

    Panel 2: DESIGN JUSTICE NOW! (Lunch will be served for in-person attendees!) 

    12:00pm-1:30 Eastern

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    Wes Taylor and Nour Arafat from Design Justice Network describe how design justice principles can intersect with “AI” developments inside the academy and beyond it. 

    Moderator: Daniel Estrada

    Coffee Break

    Panel 3: DESIGN JUSTICE ONTOLOGIES 

    2:00pm-3:30 Eastern

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    Dalaki Livingston (U Utah) and Chloë Kitzinger (Rutgers) will discuss new ontological and epistemological perspectives on AI, from Indigenous philosophies to the writings of Dostoevsky.

    Moderator: David Hughes

    Coffee Break

    Panel 4: BENCHMARKING INTELLIGENCE: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 4:00pm-5:30 Eastern

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    Webb Keane (U Michigan) joins  Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Rutgers) and Matthew Stone (Rutgers) to discuss ideas for the “benchmarking” of machine intelligence drawn from anthropology and comparative literature. 

    Moderator: Colin Jager

    Reception

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