Not My Mother's Tongue: Engagements With AI

When and Where

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
100
Jackman Humanities Building
170 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5R 2M8

Description

Our experiences with AI continue to shift across modes of engagement and processes. Yet despite limitations and biases across these interactions, we appear to be cultivating relationships with AI that are more forgiving, playful, and trusting than those we maintain with other humans—even as AI’s intellectual foundations remain deeply rooted in human language models and intelligence.

This panel discussion brings together Dr. Jeff Bale, Dr. Devon Healey, Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, and Dr. Henrjeta Mece to interrogate these dynamics. Working through different disciplinary contexts these scholars will raise questions around affective and linguistic relations with artificial systems, colonial logics embedded in them, and negotiations of meaning through difference as they unfold and expand through the artificial world. 

**If you wish to have lunch with us at the event you must RSVP by March 15**

Note: Doors open at noon.

Sponsored by the JHI's Program for the Arts.

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Henrjeta Mece

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Jackman Humanities Institute

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170 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5R 2M8

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