Events & Projects
2026 Projects and Events
May 1st, 2026
AI Technologies at Bard College: An Investigation of Student Practices and Perspectives
The report from our project on artificial intelligence at Bard College, carried out over the past fifteen months, is now available. Click here to read or download the pdf.
This timely project, initially developed in Fall 2024, was designed to address knowledge gaps about how Bard students use and view AI tools. Bard’s Language, Culture and Justice Hub, in collaboration with the Bard Language Center and Department of Anthropology, launched the project in January 2025, after approval by the College’s Institutional Review Board. Over Spring 2025, a group of seventeen Bard undergraduates, with faculty and staff guidance, undertook ethics and ethnographic training and devised a set of appropriate questions. The researchers then conducted 34 qualitative, one-on-one interviews with their fellow students—selected based on their availability and willingness to participate—which were subsequently transcribed and analyzed. The interviews, lasting between 30 and 60 minutes, covered a range of topics, including the kinds of AI tools typically used, understandings of the nature of AI, reasons for turning to generative AI, the impacts of AI on the Bard learning experience, sense of student control over the technologies, and stigma and shame attached to their use. Both domestic and international students were part of the interviewee pool.
2025 Events and Projects
March 8th, 2025
AI Language Technologies and Cross-Language Learning: an investigation of practices and perspectives at Bard College
During Spring 2025, a group of Bard students, under the guidance of diverse faculty and staff, are exploring how their peers avail themselves of new artificial intelligence language technologies and how they feel that such tools may impact their learning. The aim of this study is to bring about a better understanding of where the Bard community stands in relation to translation AI and other cross-language technologies.
2024 Events and Projects
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Monday, February 26th
8:30 – 10am ESTWebinar: The Impact of Global English on Higher Education and Beyond: A Conversation with Scholars in the Open Society University Network (Recording available)
View recording here
This webinar explored the English-language experiences of academics from diverse regions of the world, all of whom work in institutions that are part of the Open Society University Network. Through a facilitated conversation, these scholars addressed questions such as the following: What challenges and opportunities does the increasing pressure to publish academic work in English create…
Major Past Events and Projects
From 2020 to 2023, the Language, Culture and Justice Hub was located at Brandeis University. The activities below were organized under the auspices of Brandeis’ International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life.
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Multilingual Life on a Monolingual Campus: A project exploring the linguistic experiences of international students in English language-medium universities
Over 2021-22, a team of six undergraduate and graduate students explored how international students at Brandeis use the linguistic resources at their disposal and respond to language challenges and opportunities in both their academic and social lives. The project aimed to shed light on how Brandeis’ international students use all the linguistic resources at their disposal and…
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Release of findings: Multilingual Life on a Monolingual Campus (report available)
During the 2022-23 academic year, the Language, Culture and Justice Hub explored linguistic bias, the dominance of standard language ideologies, and strategies that can be used to counter these realities in the sphere of higher education. This focus built on the previous year’s project which involved research teams from two other universities in English-dominant countries: Macquarie…
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Webinar: Interpretation in Critical Contexts: Issues of Access and Quality (Recording available)
This webinar explored the vital role of language interpretation in diverse settings where the stakes for achieving successful communication are high. Whether the circumstances involve a public health emergency, displacement due to conflict, or a medical or legal proceeding, individuals should be entitled to the services of a competent, and ideally professionally certified, interpreter. Yet…
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Toward Language Justice in Higher Education (Recording available)
The goal of this webinar was to explore ways in which linguistic bias, standard language ideologies and monolingual assumptions affect various aspects of higher education. One of the challenges with pursuing linguistic justice at the university level is to balance multilingual ideologies and a linguistically additive approach with the pragmatic and very real linguistic needs…
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Webinar: Prof. Qianqian Zhang-Wu presents her new book, Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students (Recording available)
Watch a webinar with Prof. Qianqian Zhang-Wu about her relevant study, “Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students” (Multilingual Matters 2021).
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Rights, Rules and Rhetoric: Exploring Language for and About Migrants in Australia, Europe and North America
This online event explored and compared diverse language-related facets of the migration experience in Australia, Europe and North America. These facets can be grouped along three axes: 1. The rights enacted through laws or directives ensuring procedural fairness for migrants, including their ability to access critical information in their languages through translated documents or interpretation.…
