Melanie Walsh and co-PIs Anna Preus, Golden Owens, and Geoffrey Turnovsky received a Collaborative Project Award of $14,096 from the Simpson Center for the Humanities for their project titled “AI, Creativity, and the Humanities.” 

Nassim Parvin and co-authors Sylvia Janicki and Noura Howell received the Best Paper Award for their paper titled “Crip Reflections on Designing with Plants: Intersecting Disability Theory, Chronic Illness, and More-than-Human Design,” at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2024.  

Melanie Walsh was an organizer and participant of the panel “Responsible Datasets in Context: Teaching with Data and Emphasizing the Value of Historical Context” at the Digital Humanities (DH) 2024 Conference.  

Melanie Walsh’s paper “Reinventions and responsibilities in the Age of AI” was presented at the Digital Humanities (DH) 2024 Conference.  

Nasim Parvin was invited to participate in a workshop titled “Where Are the Publics of AI?” at the Institute for Advanced Study, hosted by the University of Amsterdam. During the opening session, "AI, Post-colonialism, and Feminist Techno-politics," she engaged in conversation with Thao Phan and Brit Ross Winthereik. Parvin also presented her in-progress paper, "ChatGPT!: Make Me Sound White.” 

Heather Whiteman was the lead and co-panelist for the panel "The Future of Humans & Machines - The Economy, Human Well-Being & The World" at Ai4, one of the world's largest professional conferences dedicated to AI.