Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Organization: University of Florida
Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Call for Proposals
A Virtual Conference
12–13 March 2026
Sponsored by the University Writing Program at the University of Florida
Details
We should notice when something disappears and what emerges in its wake if not place (e.g., pay phones to cellphones). Likewise, we should notice when things reappear and examine what it indicates (e.g., increasing record player sales). The library card catalog disappeared as we banned Wikipedia from papers. Google Scholar stole traffic from the stacks as notebooks and folders went digital. While searching and its algorithms tend not to surface texts as relevant as exploring now dimly-lit basement shelves, reading, we are told, is as seemingly on the outs as writing. AI is here.
Some professors are returning to older ways, including in-class oral and written exams. Process-based research, however, with emphases on cutting and bleeding edges, the advanced, and the current is perhaps best primed to resist such in-class restrictions. Research outside the classroom, from libraries and labs to museums and site visits, could remain just as valuable today as what one might hope to find tomorrow through AI resources.
In time, research in the age of AI will likely be additive. The cutting edge need not be a razor. We are learning lessons, gaining experiences, and discovering strengths and weaknesses through trials and errors before new standards, practices, and conventions emerge. Let’s discuss that space and what is possible within it. What does discovery mean today? What are your students finding? What are you accepting and rejecting? What are you finding in your work? How are processes changing? How are you integrating AI into research? How are you teaching research today?
In 2023, we hosted a conference on Writing in the Age of AI. Then, in 2024, our focus changed to Teaching in the Age of AI. For the fall of 2025, we encourage faculty to sponsor spaces in their classrooms to try new research approaches, enough to discuss them in the spring of 2026. In what began as a reaction to AI that moved to adaptation to AI, our upcoming conference will focus on integration and the consequences that issue therefrom, whether appearing as benefits or pitfalls and whether realized as good, bad, and everything in-between.
In this spirit, we invite proposals that address AI and research thoughtfully, dynamically, and compellingly from the humanities classroom and your work outside it. To these ends, we are interested in topics that not only span but also go beyond the following list of possibilities:
- Pedagogy
Teaching AI Research
Teaching and Experiences with AI Research Resources, Tools, Products, Platforms, Services
Creating Research Assignments for, beyond, outside, with AI
Revisiting Tradition Because of or to Avoid or Resist AI
Assignments Created and Revised for AI
Pasts, Fads, and Futures - Policy
Crafting, Deploying, Enforcing, and Resisting the Syllabus, Department, and University Policy Statement
The Class Talk about AI Policy
Policing AI Research - Partners
Grant Writing, Research Funding, and AI
Centers for Teaching Excellence and AI
Writing Center Encounters and Responses to AI Research
Libraries, Librarians, and Literacy (especially AI Guides)
Authors, Authority, and the AI as Collaborative Partner
Cross-Silo Collaboration and Interdisciplinary Work with/on AI and AI Research - Process
Designing and Engineering Research Prompts
Engagement and Selection
Access and Stratification
Work and Workflows
Methods, Discoveries, and Hallucinations
Undertaking Research with AI
Data Analysis with AI
Source, Sources, and Sourcing with AI
Assessment and Evaluating with or of AI
Exercises, Strategies, and Techniques using AI
Case Studies of AI Technologies, Platforms, Services
Introductory Composition and Research Modules - Philosophy
Beliefs about Research, Process, and Results
(Dis/En)couragement to Deploy or Avoid AI during or in Research
AI and the Nature and Work of Discovery
Hallucinations, the Unexpected, and Epistemology
Conducting Research, Research Methods, Paths of Process
Conceptualizing, Making, and Training Scholars and Researchers - Publishing
AI in as or during Peer Review, Peer Reviewing AI, and AI as a Non-Peer
AI Interpretations of and Recommendations for Peer Review Reports; or, How I Learned to Respond to Reviewer 2
Detection, Detail, and Disclosure
Openness and Outcomes - Performance
AI Research Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Capabilities, Capacities, and Canaries
Using, Evaluating, Contributing to, and Spotting AI Research
Submissions
Submissions from graduate students and faculty of all ranks and status are welcome. To overcome costly travel funding and logistics obstacles, particularly for international colleagues, this will be a virtual, asynchronous conference of exhibits, pre-recorded videos, content posts, posters, etc. Creativity in approach and style is encouraged.
Submission Process
Please respond to the CFP using the form below.
Deadline
22 December 2025
Contact
Please reach out by emailing Zea Miller (zea.miller@ufl.edu).
Decisions
Confirmation emails will be sent in January.
Registration
A registration portal will open after acceptances are sent. A registration fee may be required to cover technology and student assistance costs.
Event
To promote engagement, conversations, and community, questions and reasonable commentary and questions for panelists will be required amongst panelists within assigned panels and at least once without. Responses during the conference will be slated within a 24-hour period allocated to the panel.
Link to Website and Submission Form: https://www.jwai.org/events/research-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence
https://www.jwai.org/events/research-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence
Zea Miller