As large language models and AI chatbots rise in influence, the humanities are experiencing significant shifts in research, teaching, and administrative practices. This session offers an overview of AI tools and their practical applications, highlighting the ethical challenges they bring to knowledge production and the classroom.

Workshop with Christoph Zeller (Vanderbilt, German and European Studies), moderated by Jeanette Kohl (UCR, History of Art/CIS Co-Director) and Goldberry Long (UCR, Creative Writing)

Christoph Zeller is Professor of German and European Studies and an award-winning scholar and teacher. He has taught as a DAAD Lecturer in Poland and was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has received research grants from the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. Trained as a literary scholar and historian at the University of Stuttgart, he focuses on literature, media, and culture, with an emphasis on philosophical concepts and their impact on individuals and groups, including fiction and nonfiction, art and aesthetics, politics, and people. His essays have appeared in leading journals such as Poetica, The Germanic Review, IASL, Arcadia, German Studies Review, LiLi, Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, text + kritik, and Gegenwartsliteratur. He is currently working on a book on avant-garde art and literature called Dada Economy: The German Inflation and the Evolution of Avant-Garde Art, forthcoming from Camden House. is Professor of German and European Studies and an award-winning scholar and teacher. He has taught as a DAAD Lecturer in Poland and was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has received research grants from the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Humboldt Foundation, the DAAD, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and Vanderbilt University. Trained as a literary scholar and historian at the University of Stuttgart, he focuses on literature, media, and culture, with an emphasis on philosophical concepts and their impact on individuals and groups, including fiction and nonfiction, art and aesthetics, politics, and people. His essays have appeared in leading journals such as Poetica, The Germanic Review, IASL, Arcadia, German Studies Review, LiLi, Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik, text + kritik, and Gegenwartsliteratur. He is currently working on a book on avant-garde art and literature called Dada Economy: The German Inflation and the Evolution of Avant-Garde Art, forthcoming from Camden House.

Sponsored by the Being Human initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society.