Call for Early Career Participants: Global Humanities Institute 2024 DESIGN JUSTICE AI @ University of Pretoria
Sending this on behalf of the organising community.
Call for Early Career Participants:
Global Humanities Institute 2024
DESIGN JUSTICE AI: an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring community-centered engagement of “Generative AI” (the statistical modeling and synthesis of human languages, communication, arts, and cultures)
June 30-July 13 2024
Location: Centre for Advancement of Scholarship [at/in collaboration with the Future Africa Institute ] at the University of Pretoria, South Africa]
Proposal Due Date: January 5, 2024 (see below for submission details)
Early career scholars and advanced graduate students across the disciplines are invited to apply to join our Design Justice AI Institute, a CHCI-Mellon supported Global Humanities Institute. Our international team will cross the humanities, social sciences, arts, sciences, and engineering, and reach out to affected communities as we foster creative thinking, model new forms of research and design, and produce resources for scholars and the general public.
Application Requirements [See full call for full details]: Applicants must be either advanced graduate students or within twelve years of receiving a Ph.D. The competition is open to anyone from anywhere in the world whose universities are affiliated with CHCI. Direct affiliation with a Center is not necessary, only affiliation with the home institution housing a Center is required. [We also welcome applications from community organizers, independent artists/scholars, activists, librarians, K-12 teachers, social workers, and public intellectuals with demonstrable experience working with AI-related technologies and their impacts on communities.]