Final Presentations

This final session brings the semester full circle. Each student presents the culmination of their two-part assignment: a critical analysis of how AI intersects with their own MA or PhD research, and a reflective account of experimenting with AI tools in their scholarly practice. Over the past fourteen weeks, we have moved from the broad political economy of AI — extraction, labor, capital — through questions of language, translation, representation, and ethics, to the intimate territory of data bodies, archives, and selfhood. We have traced historical parallels from the printing press to social media. We have heard from scholars and practitioners working at the frontiers of these questions. And we have gotten our hands on the tools themselves, testing their capabilities and interrogating their limitations.

Presentations should not simply report findings — they should demonstrate the critical frameworks we have developed together. How does AI reshape the questions available to your field? What did you learn by actually using these tools in your research? Where did the technology surprise you, and where did it fail? What ethical and methodological questions remain unresolved?