Choi Auditorium

How to Manage the Future: Artificial Intelligence and the Road Ahead

As a member of the inaugural TIME100 AI list, Dr. Alondra Nelson is a leading expert on artificial intelligence and its profound influence on culture, business, and politics. In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, organizations face the critical challenge of crafting AI strategies that balance innovation with regulation. How will emerging policies shape these strategies and what transformative opportunities may lie ahead if AI is used ethically and responsibly? Dr.

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The John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy is pleased to announce the availability of financial support for students to conduct independent research, undertake internships, and participate in conferences, colloquia, or workshops. Projects must be related to world affairs or the global economy for support. Well-executed research proposals focused on world affairs and political economy are prioritized.

The John Parke Young Initiative on the Global Political Economy is pleased to announce the availability of financial support for students to conduct independent research, undertake internships, and participate in conferences, colloquia, or workshops. Projects must be related to world affairs or the global economy for support. Well-executed research proposals focused on world affairs and political economy are prioritized.

Topics discussed will include understanding immigrant rights under the new presidential administration, how colleges and universities can protect those rights, and materials and resources for future reference.  You can register for the event 

On Feb. 18, Cooper Owens will deliver a lecture titled “Slavery, Gynecology and Black Placental Resistance: Why Black Mothers Matter.” A reception in the Johnson Hall Global Forum will take place from 5:30-6:45.

She will also hold a panel and healing circle on Feb. 19 from 3:30-5 p.m. in Choi Auditorium. The panel title is "On Reproductive Justice: On Communal Care and Resilience."

This collaborative talk by Drs. Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (University of Manitoba) and Dorota Glowacka (University of King's College) focuses on material objects and photographs that narrate the experiences of gender-based violence during the Holocaust and settler-colonial genocides in North America.

The short film Daughters of Abraham will screen before Screams Before Silence. There will be a panel discussion after the film.

Curious about the future of short films? 

Why create short form cinema in the era of blockbuster films, infinite streaming TV, and social media? 

Will AI-generated movies ruin everything?

If you could send a voicemail back to your past self, what would you say? And what does that have to do with an old blue plastic IKEA table?

How do you make a film about a pile of discarded VHS tapes you find on the street?

The Young Initiative invites Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso (Director) and Jordan Flaherty (Producer) for a panel discussion followed by a screening of their award-winning documentary Powerlands.  

Schedule

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Reception in Global Forum 

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM

Discussion in Choi Auditorium 

7:00 PM - 8:15 PM 

Film Screening in Choi Auditorium

*Open only to the Oxy community