The 60th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures:

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Schedule

Day 1: Wednesday, April 15, 2026

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development, UTA
(400 South Center St., Arlington, TX 76010)

• 4:00 to 5:30 PM
  • Light Reception
  • Student Showcase: Humanities & AI
• 5:30 to 6:30 PM
  • Film Screening: "Your Face is Ours: The Dangers of Facial Recognition Software,"
    (dir. Jessica Le Masurier and Roméo Langlois, 2023).
    
    The film investigates the global spread and human-rights risks of facial recognition technologies. It was awarded the Human Rights Prize at FIGRA 2024, along with honors at international documentary and film festivals.
• 6:30 to 7:00 PM
  • Conversation & Q&A with co-director and journalist Jessica Le Masurier
  • Moderators:
  • Patryk Babiracki, Department of History and Geography, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Hubert Zydorek, Director, Center for Global Business, University of Texas at Dallas

Day 2: Thursday, April 16, 2026

9:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Library Parlor, Central Library, 6th floor

• 9:30 to 9:45 AM
  • Coffee
• 9:45 to 10:45 AM
  • Jon Burmeister (University of Mount Saint Vincent):
  • "A.I. as Midwife: Personalized Education and Rousseau's Hidden Tutor"
• 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  • Larry S. McGrath (Amazon):
  • "Creation and Critique: How the Humanities Shape AI Application Design"
• 12:00 to 12:45 PM
  • Lunch Break
• 1:00 to 2:00 PM
  • James W. Cortada (Babbage Institute):
  • “Artificial Intelligence and the Historian: Tool, Crutch, or Frenemy?”
• 2:15 to 3:15 PM
  • Aleksander Poniewierski (Independent Consultant)
  • "Lost Leaders: How Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol Can Help Us Navigate the Digital Transformation"
• 3:30 to 4:30 PM
  • Sıla Şehrazat Yücel (Multidisciplinary Artist):
  • "Off the Map: The Artist as Path Maker in Latent Space"