Data Center Defiance! CJUU Flash Talk this Friday June 19th

Flash Talk: "How to engage in critical and productive conversation about AI: Tips for teaching, scholarship, service and beyond”

Join this upcoming CJUU Flash Talk on Friday June 19th that addresses how and why we need to resist colonial AI as it unfolds around us globally and locally. Using international examples, Mary Finley-Brook, PhD (University of Richmond) reminds us of the risks of normalizing AI adoption and use. Discussion points will be relevant to classroom teaching, scholarship, campus governance and community engagement.

This event is the first of a series of monthly flash talks - short presentations by expert-activists - organized by the CJUU North America branch. See you this coming Friday 12-1 pm (Eastern Time) on Zoom:  bit.ly/CJUU-NA-ZOOM (case-sensitive).

Mary Finley-Brook has taught Geography, Environmental Studies, Sustainability and Global Studies for two decades. She is a strong advocate for shared higher education governance and is concerned about how administrators adopt unproven AI without adequate involvement of faculty and staff in decision-making. Mary lives in Virginia where hyperscale data center development occurred rapidly and community costs and ecological harms are increasingly apparent, including in her county. She serves on the steering committee of Data Center Defiance, a new community-based regional coalition.

Interested in joining the CJUU North America branch? The North American Branch meets regularly on the third Friday of the month from 12-1 EST. Register here. This branch also communicates on the North American Branch Channel on CJUU's Mattermost.