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Humanities and AI: Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory

October 23, 2025

Wendy Chun
Wendy Chun

Start time: 3:30 p.m.

End time: 6:00 p.m

Location: Cabell Library, Room 303 (901 Park Ave, Richmond, VA)

Join us for a keynote lecture with Wendy Chun, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.

About the Speaker

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University. At the Institute, she leads the Mellon-funded Data Fluencies Project, which combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the data sciences to express, imagine, and create innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world.