Generative AI events

Fall 2025

GradsLearn: Refining Your Academic Voice

Sept. 23, University of Missouri-Columbia

Hosted by the MU Writing Center, the GradsLearn workshop will help you strengthen your academic voice by focusing on sentence structure, transitions and verb choice. You’ll also explore how AI tools like ChatGPT can support revision and enhance clarity. Ideal for grad writers who feel stuck, are curious about AI or write in English as an additional language. The featured speaker is Christy Goldsmith, PhD, who serves as the associate director of the campus writing program and is an assistant teaching professor of English education.

Fall Forum on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Oct. 3, University of Missouri-Columbia

The Fall Forum on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment is an annual event hosted by the Teaching for Learning Center (T4LC) at the University of Missouri. Each fall, T4LC brings together educators and staff to explore innovative practices in teaching and learning. The conference features presentations from Mizzou’s own thought leaders and invites guests from beyond the institution to share in these discussions. A call for proposals is open to Mizzou educators — including faculty, instructors, graduate instructors, postdoctoral fellows and academic staff — until Aug. 24.

The forum’s 2025 keynote speaker will be Sam von Gillern, PhD. Dr. von Gillern earned his doctorate at Iowa State University and currently researches digital literacies, focusing on how people learn and communicate through digital technologies.

AI in the Writing-Intensive Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities

Oct. 9, University of Missouri-Columbia

The rise of AI writing tools presents new questions and possibilities for Writing Intensive courses. This session, hosted by the Mizzou Campus Writing Program, will highlight common hurdles faculty face — from concerns about authorship to shifts in writing processes — and offer practical frameworks for thinking through course design and assignment strategies. Participants will leave with ideas for navigating AI in ways that support critical thinking and uphold the goals of Writing Intensive instruction.

Artificial Influence and the Engineering of Mass Persuasion

Nov. 7, Missouri University of Science and Technology

The Artificial Influence and the Engineering of Mass Persuasion conference, co-hosted by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society (CSTS), the Kummer Institute Center for AI and Autonomous Systems (KCIAIAS) and Miner AI, seeks to explore: How is artificial intelligence affecting mass persuasion techniques and technologies? What persists when persuasion migrates from broadcast to bandwidth? How exactly do large language models draft propaganda? How do recommender graphs, neuromarketing sensors, location beacons, and “dark-pattern” interfaces collaborate to bend emotion toward action? When does a nudge become coercion? Are data subjects entitled to cognitive sovereignty? How do bodies feel algorithmic persuasion, and how might somatic knowledge inform the design of inoculation strategies? What mass persuasion practices cultivate resilience, and which ones toxify the public sphere?

A call for proposals is open to graduate students, adjunct and full-time faculty, research staff and independent scholars until Aug. 6.

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