Generating Resistance, Persistence, Presence
in the Age of AI
Over the course of the 2025–2027 academic years The Center for Experimental Humanities and Stevenson Library are collaborating on a series of workshops, interdisciplinary panels, lectures, and community conversations focused on the implications of GenAI for our social, mental, and environmental ecologies. Through these encounters, we aim to reflect on what forms of active resistance, persistence, and presence are required in this critical moment. Through embodied practices we hope to generate alternative modes of connecting with ourselves, one another, and our planet.
Building on last semester’s events, our spring 2026 programming explores how GenAI complicates questions of human agency and attention. As algorithmic systems increasingly shape how we read, create, and make decisions, how do we protect and care for what is essentially human? And how do we make spaces for collective reclamation, resistance and presence in this moment?
