Digital Studies Speaker Series

Digital Studies Speaker Series Fall 2025

 

The Digital Studies Speaker Series is a semester-long speaker series of Zoom presentations from experts in various disciplines who will speak to the connections between “Digital Studies” as an evolving area of academic study and its interdisciplinarity. Please join the School of Arts and Humanities as we explore the connections between digital studies and their own disciplines for curriculum development and innovation.

Oct
16
"Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
Brian Kim Stefans, Professor, Department of English (UCLA)
Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Brian Kim Stefans is on the faculty in the Department of English at UCLA. He holds an M.F.A. in Electronic Literature from Brown University. His interests include electronic literature and digital humanities, and modernist and contemporary poetry. 

Learn more about Professor Stefans here.
Oct
30
“Experiments in Electronic Art and Community Practice”
Hannah Tardie, Makerspace Manager, Scholars Studio (Temple University)
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Hannah Tardie (they/them) is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work exists as sculpture, installation, essays, event organization, and performance. Tardie views electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy, attachment, and queer relationality.

Learn more about Professor Tardie here.
Nov
13
“The Future of Writing in the Digital Age”
Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education (NYU)
Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Clay Shirky is Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education and chairs the University’s Future of Technology-Enhanced Education Committee.

Shirky is also an Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Center of Journalism in FAS and an Associate Arts Professor in Tisch School of the Arts’ Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Learn more about Professor Shirky here.
Nov
18
“The Value of the Arts and Humanities in a Tech World”
Alain-Philippe (A-P) Durand, Dean, College of Humanities (The University of Arizona)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand is the Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities, Professor of French, and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Latin American Studies, LGBT Studies, and Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona. 

Learn more about Dr. Durand here.