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The 6th annual Bold Conference facilitated conversation between students, faculty, and staff with the intention of strengthening teaching and learning at Barnard. The conference featured sessions on generative AI, facilitation, the politics of refusal, citation justice, and more. These sessions were developed in collaboration with the CEP student and faculty advisory committees.

Thursday, March 28th

11:45am – 1:00pm: Generative AI Survey Debrief: Student-Faculty-Staff Conversation

Facilitators: Elana Altman, Jenniffer Koita, Rayhana Mouaouia, Tristan Shippen, Melanie Hibbert & Melissa Wright
Description: This session focused on unpacking data from the Faculty and Student Generative AI Experience Surveys, highlighting key takeaways.
 

1:00pm– 2:00pm: Catered Lunch

2:00pm – 3:15pm: Pedagogy in the Political Present: Faculty Roundtable

Facilitators: Alex Pittman
Speakers: Debbie Becher, Shayoni Mitra, and Bahia Munem
Description: This roundtable showcased the expansive ways that instructors have approached the process of teaching in a context of political upheaval, often in ways that move beyond the walls of the traditional classroom.
 

4:30pm-6:00pm: Pedagogies and Politics of Refusal: Keynote Roundtable 

Speakers: Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo & Sarah Wright
Description: What might we learn by considering the act of refusal, not as a sign of breakdown or failure in teaching, but as a strategy with communicative force and pedagogical possibility? Our keynote roundtable, featuring Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo and Sarah Wright, considered these and other questions from the perspective of indigenous and settler colonial studies.

Friday, March 29th

10:30am – 11:30am: AI and Citation Justice Panel

Speakers: Elana Altman, Gabrielle Gutierrez, Saima Akhtar, and Wendy Schor-Haim 
Description: Proposed and facilitated by students, this faculty and staff panel considered how the citation justice movement offers a framework for promoting an ethical practice of citation as Barnard grapples with the role and impact of generative AI in classrooms
 

1:00pm – 2:00pm: Facilitation Skills Workshop

Facilitators: Alex Pittman & members of the Dialogue & Difference Student Community of Practice 
Description: This workshop explored skills associated with facilitation and mediation, particularly as they are practiced and theorized in social justice movements.

Watch the Keynote Roundtable (Panopto Recording)

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Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo (they/them) is a Mohawk scholar from Kahnawake.

Their PhD at the University of British Columbia focused on decolonizing dialogue in First Peoples’ literatures. Their essays on Indigenous literature have appeared in Studies in American Indian Literature, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Canadian Literature. They worked on APTN’s comedy series Mohawk Girls and wrote the 2016 short documentary Green Fees: The Evolution of the Kanawaki Lease.

Sarah Wright is Professor and Future Fellow in Geography and Development Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

She works in critical development studies, with a focus on geographies of weather, and Indigenous and postcolonial geographies. She is part of two Indigenous-led research collectives in Australia, the Bawaka Collective and Yandaarra, and has worked with Filipino social movements for 25 years. She lives with her family on Gumbaynggirr Country on the mid-north coast NSW in Australia. Her collaborative writing has won several awards including the NSW Premier's History Awards (2022) and the Prime Minister’s Literary award for non-fiction (2020) and been shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT Book Award (2020), the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2020) and the National Book Award of the Philippines (2019).