Events

This page will be updated regulary for events, lectures, and other opportunities for invovlement and conversation about AI. This is not an exhaustive list of events and programming about AI, so be on the lookout for updates on this page and outreach occuring throughout your communities.

Past Events

An Update on AI from the US Copyright Office (March 21, 10:00am-11:00am MST, 12:00pm-1:00pm EST via Zoom)
Join for a special Discussion Series Event with Chris Weston, Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs, US Copyright Office, who will be presenting OSCO policies concerning AI and summarizing Open Copyright Education Advisory Network's recent studies. Register here.

Chris Weston is counsel in the Office of Policy and International Affairs of the US Copyright Office. Chris has many years of domestic copyright law and policy experience, including authoring the Office's 2017 Discussion Document on the section 108 exception for libraries and archives, and co-authoring Office stuides pre-1972 sound recording and orphan works and mass digitization. He has also working extensively on joint Copyright Office-Library of Congress Office in 2008, after working at the Library of Congress, primarily with the Section 108 Study Group. He graduate cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Cetner in 2001, and has a B.A. from Wesleyan Unniversity. Prior to his legal career he spent six years in the music industry.

17th Annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference (March 7-8, 2025)
The 17th annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of New Mexico invites graduate students to examine the manner in which networks of power, visibility, and technicity shape contemporary forms of social organization, ideological formations, and cultural narratives. Specifically the following presentations:

Panel II. Technologies of Knowing, Saturday March 8th, 1:00pm-2:30pm
Student Union Building (SUB) Acoma & Fiesta meeting rooms

Gender Bias in Generative AI: Discursive, Cultural, and Ideological Perspective
Elliot Jackson, University of New Mexico

Questions Concerning Teleology in Artificial Intelligence
Arlo O'Blaney, University of New Mexico

Keynote Presentation, Saturday March 8th, 3:00pm-4:00pm SUB Acoma
Machine Learning and the Crisis of Decision
David Bates, University of California, Berkeley

AI in Research (February 28, 12:30pm-2pm via Zoom)

Join Computer Science Professor Melanie Moses and Research IT Manager Grace Faustino for a discussion about the current state of AI in Research (as opposed to research on AI). They will talk about best practices when using existing tools, some of the potential pitfalls, and where things stand in terms of policies around AI in research and research administration at UNM and federally. They will also demo an AI tool or two and will invite attendees to test them out in real time during the session.
Open to all UNM faculty. Register here.

Latest Update: 03 April 2025