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Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

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7:30am EDT

Breakfast at Harris Harris Dining Hall

9:00am EDT

The Great AI Debate Crozier-Williams 1962 RoomAnand Rao • ScholarStack AI

10:20am EDT

Beyond Summaries: Reclaiming Reading in an AI-mediated world Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jaya Kannan • Kristina Reardon How Can We Thoughtfully Respond to AI? Cultivating a Critical AI Literacy in the Writing Classroom Blaustein 203Noah Wason The Engineer's Paradox: Why Building AI Systems Made Me Argue Harder for the Liberal Arts Blaustein 208Chaitanya Gunupudi “Under Review – Liberal Arts Edition”: Using a Table Top Role-Playing Game for AI Literacy Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Gerard Gadigian • Lori Looney • Susan Purrington When the Product Is No Longer Proof: Ungrading, AI, and the Human Future of Learning Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Divonna Stebick

10:30am EDT

AI Play Lab Shain Library Visualization Wall (Lower level)

10:50am EDT

Literature as Information Control: How Understanding Narrative Increases AI Literacy Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Ryan Crawford

11:30am EDT

Pop-up Book Club — Academic Integrity in the Age of AI (Session 2 of 2) Blaustein 203Amy Collier • Sarah Lohnes Watulak Publishing at the Speed of AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Patrick Dempsey • Adam Pryor Beyond “AI Police”: Equitable Oral Assessment Design Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Meredith Gilman Take My Hand and Tell Me What You See: AI and Museum Accessibility Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Prakhar Agrawal • Andres Fernandez • Douglas Hall • Miloslava Hruba

12:00pm EDT

Lunch at Harris Harris Dining Hall

1:00pm EDT

A Practical Framework for Assessing AI Risk and Readiness in Divisions, Centers, Programs, and Departments Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Nakia Hamlett-Nunes Beyond the Blue Book: AI Simulations and the New Measure of Liberal Arts Learning Blaustein 210Jeanine DeFalco Lightning Talks - Critical & Rhetorical Perspectives Shain Library Chu Room (First floor) Grappling with Pedagogical Practice that Centers the Human Element — in the Context of AI Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Liz Knauer • Karyn Zieve

1:10pm EDT

Scaffolding Rhetorical Authority through Intentional Failure Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Jeffrey L. Jackson

1:20pm EDT

Tools of One's Own: Portable Prompting and the Iterative Craft of Professional Identity Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Ben Harwood

1:30pm EDT

Adding Nuance to Student AI Refusal Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Theresa Law • Annabel Rothschild Awaken the Liberal Arts: Responsible AI Ecosystem by Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Mingwei Zhu Vibe Coding the Liberal Arts: From Plain Language to Playable Simulation Blaustein 210Florencia Ines Gabriele

2:15pm EDT

A Scalable AI Course Redesign Protocol Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Mike Honsberger Plot Twist: Unexpected Findings from Student AI Use at Denison Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Heath Hase • Lori Robbins For the Record, How Do We Record (Using AI)? Ethical Questions Regarding the Use of AI Technology to Retain Information Blaustein 203Dr. Rachel Cockrell • Elise McCauley • Marcia Shottenkirk The Evidence I Wish I Had: Reframing the Detection Spiral Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Melissa Forbes

2:45pm EDT

A Capabilities-Based Approach to Figuring Out Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Cade Puzon Understanding and Leveraging Student Ambivalence to AI Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)George Cusack

3:30pm EDT

Developing an AI-Focused Faculty Learning Community (FLC) Blaustein 210Elisabeth Buzay The Student Voice: Creating an AI Student Council Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne What If We Trusted Them? Student-Led AI Research as Liberal Arts Pedagogy — Lessons from the LAB Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Stephanie Kufner Designing Cross-Departmental AI Initiatives for Your Campus Blaustein Hood Room (First floor)Jean Ferguson • Travis Grandy

4:00pm EDT

ChatGBC: An All-Campus, Secure, Affordable(?) OpenWebUI/OpenRouter-Based AI Hub Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)Eric Remy Student Involvement in AI Curriculum Development Blaustein Ernst Room (First floor)Willie Wilson The AI Culture Question: What Happens When One Department Decides to Lead? Blaustein 210Sarah Gobe

4:30pm EDT

Closing Session Crozier-Williams 1962 Room