Stay tuned for the 2025 Faculty Sessions lineup!
Join us for workshops and panels designed for faculty, postdocs, and PhD students alike. All are welcome to participate in these sessions tailored to enhance professional development, foster collaboration, and inspire innovation. These sessions are hosted in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Advancement (OVPFAA).
Please RSVP here.
Time: 9 - 10:25 a.m.
Location: Dogwood Room, IMU
Description: Twenty-first century language and culture programs are interdisciplinary and multifaceted in their effort to engage today's learners and make the most of new technologies. The speakers in this session explore foreign language pedagogy through an array of digital, AI and learning technologies, stimulating conversations about future directions for foreign language education.
Speakers: Christina Cooper, Beth Samuelson, Lina Qian, and Xiaojing Kou
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Oak Room, IMU
Description: Offering and receiving mentorship are crucial parts of academic/university life. Yet, students and faculty are rarely taught to be mentors or to find the mentorship they need. These challenges can be amplified for women because some women work in contexts where they must be proactive in searching out mentorship, and because in many contexts, women are asked to mentor more often than their male counterparts. This interactive workshop will present strategies and resources around cultivating fulfilling mentorship practices. We will integrate research on mentorship with personal and professional experience to consider how to best mentor others and foster high-quality mentorship for ourselves. We will explore what mentoring means, how to build mentor networks, and how to engage in best practices for mentoring others.
Featuring Speakers: Gen Creedon, Amanda Diekman, and Colleen Ryan
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Frangipani Room, IMU
Description: What are the promises and perils of recent developments in artificial intelligence technologies? While heralded as a breakthrough tool for work productivity, it is unclear how AI will take shape in a world where the Digital Divide still fuels social and economic inequities. Join Professors Laura Foster (IU Gender Studies) and MacArthur Fellow Mary L Gray (IU Informatics, Microsoft Research) for a luncheon and fireside chat followed by a conversation with the IU community about the critical role of interdisciplinary scholarship and universities in the future of AI.
Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. Mary earned her PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego in 2004, under the direction of Susan Leigh Star. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society. https://marylgray.org
Speakers: Dr. Mary L. Gray and Laura Foster
Time: 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Persimmon Room
Description: Faculty regularly rely on digital technologies and resources in support of their teaching and research. This session explores grant funding, open access scholarship, and digital archiving for the purposes of enhancing , conserving, and disseminating research.
Speakers: Megan Young, Olaya Fernandez Gayol, Jaime Carini, Mitchell Widmer, and Rivkah Cooke
