2025 Spring Teaching Forum & Poorvu 10th Anniversary Celebration: “A Call to Create: Linguistic Justice in an AI World”

This year’s Spring Teaching Forum will be held on April 30th from 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Register for the entire day or pick and choose events to attend! Lunch will be provided.

Join us for a day of exploration and innovation at the intersection of linguistic justice and generative AI. This special event expands Yale’s annual Spring Teaching Forum in honor of the Poorvu Center’s 10th anniversary to bring together our teaching community for a conversation about the pressing topic of how we can center student voice and linguistic equity while navigating the potentials and pitfalls of AI in teaching. 

The event will open with a keynote address on linguistic justice by April Baker-Bell (Associate Professor of Language, Culture, and Justice in Education, University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education), followed by lunch and further conversation. After lunch, the interactive Spring Teaching Forum panel features Yale instructors from different disciplines—Claire Bowern (Linguistics), Ezgi Yalçın (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Faith Taylor (Yale School of the Environment), and Alex Manning (Sociology)—who will share the recent innovations they’ve made in their teaching to celebrate diversity of expression, ethically engage with AI for learning, or do both at once. Finally, there will be a closing keynote on ethical AI integration by Jamell Dacon (Director of the Machine Intelligence and Data Science Lab and Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Morgan State University). After the final keynote, the day will end with a reception in celebration of the launch of the new Poorvu North location in Kline Tower.

You are more than welcome to join us for the whole day or for individual sessions as your schedule allows; more information on registration will be forthcoming next week. We hope to see you there!

The Poorvu Center will publish a report from the Spring Teaching Forum in the coming weeks. Look for updates on our website this summer.

For more information, please contact askpoorvucenter@yale.edu.