Faculty Seminars Spring 2024

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff.
$4 buffet lunch or bring your own. Please note, only cash can be used for the buffet lunch.

Tues., Jan. 30 Eric Chown, Allison Cooper, Michael Franz, Fernando Nasc (NHC-funded "AI Ethics" Course)
"AI Across the Curriculum: An Interdisciplinary, Modular, Approach to Bringing AI to the Classroom"

Wed., Feb. 7 Hakim Zainiddinov (Sociology)
“Contextual Factors Associated with Women's Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Tajikistan”

Tues., Feb. 13 Paul Benham, Katie Byrnes, Juli Haugen, Beth Hoppe, Jennifer Snow and Erin Valentino
"Learning about, with, and from AI: How does it operate and impact how we engage in knowledge-production"

Wed., Feb. 21 Nadia Celis, Jayanthi Selinger, Dale Syphers
"Teaching in the Age of AI-Focusing on Student Thinking"

Tues., Feb. 27 Martin Abel (Economics)
"How Name Associations Affect Decisions and Contribute to Discrimination"

Wed., March 6 Jeova Farias (Computer Science)
"Bias in AI-Generated Human Faces"

Tues., March 26 John Paul Kanwit (BCLT, incoming Associated Director, Writing Program)
Note: John Paul will join Bowdoin July 1, 2024.  He is currently the Campus Writing Program Director, CITL, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
"A Productive Use for Generative AI: Low-stakes, Meaningful Writing Sessions"

Wed., April 3 Kat Stefko (Special Collections and Archives, Library)
"Fire, Brimstone, Cards, and Egg Possets: The Student Days of the Bowdoin Class of 1825"

Tues., April 9 Ingrid Nelson (Sociology)
"Party Foul: Lessons from the Tequila Party (Eight Years Later)"

Wed., April 17 Ángel Saavedra Cisneros (Government and Legal Studies)
"Diving into the role of identities and issues on the Latinx vote."

Tues., April 23 Paula Cuellar Cuellar, Keona Ervin, Fe McBride, Mira Nikolova, Amnon Ortoll-Bloch, Lindsay Rapport (2023-24 BCLT Faculty Fellows)
"Inclusive and Equitable Course Design"