9:00-9:15 Arriving

9:15-9:20 Opening of the Conference (Jin Y. Park)

9:20-9:35 Welcoming Remarks (Linda Aldoory, Dean College of Arts and Sciences)

9:45-11:30 Panel I. Moderated by Farhang Erfani (American University)

• Brian Jordan Jefferson (University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign), “Political not Technical: Artificial Intelligence & the Genealogical Method”
• Gordon Hull (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), “Crash Test Dummies: AI and the Zombie Juridicial Subject”
• Leigh Johnson (American University), “Delete, Retain, Haunt: The Spectral Ethics of AI Memory”

11:30-12:50 Lunch Break

1:00-2:10 (12:55-2:10 class) Keynote speech, moderated by Ian Rhoad (American University)

• David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois University), “Person, Thing, Robot”

2:30-3:40 Panel II. Moderated by Jerome Clarke (American University)

• Peter Hershock (East-West Center), “Existential Risk or Evolutionary Opportunity? A Buddhist Reflection on AI and Human Freedom”
• Neda Atanasoski (University of Maryland, College Park), “Feminist Approaches to AI in the Age of the ‘New’ Cold War”

4:00-5:00 Roundtable discussion, moderated by Jin Y. Park (American University)