This event is only for N8 researchers. Please use your University emails to sign up to ensure eligibility for this event.
Due to high volumes, this event is by application, so signing up does not confirm your place. You will be notified if you are successful in gaining a place on this course.
Date: 6th June 2025
Location: University of Leeds and online
Cost: Free
The one-day symposium will feature keynote talks, position papers, and discussion from researchers and practitioners across disciplines. Bringing together expertise from across the humanities and machine learning, topics of discussion include:
- The current and future capabilities of AI to create and imitate human modes of creative expression
- Methods and training processes for human and AI creative practice and communication
- How the distinction between imitation and originality may be re-drawn by AI versus human practices
- The potential impact of creative materials generated by AI and humans on theoretical frameworks devised to explain literary expression and linguistic individuality
- The ethics of human and AI practices around originality and replication
- Audience perceptions of human and AIcreativityi
Audience and Pre-requisites
This workshop is perfect for post-graduate researchers, early career researchers, post-docs, academic researchers, creative writers and creative arts practitioners.
You do not need to bring anything.
Keynote Speaker
Dr Nasser Hussain, Leeds Beckett University. (L)imitations: some notes on AI and Creative Writing
Agenda
A detailed agenda with session topics will be shared to registered participants.
Present at the meeting!
If you are interested in presenting a 15-minute talk at the meeting, please fill out the CfP. The deadline for this is Tuesday, 6th May.
What's included
This event is completely free to attend. Attendees are expected to arrange their travel and accommodation. Bursaries are available to successful applicants who suffer financial, caregiving, or disability-related barriers to attendance.