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The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

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  • Building a Relational Language Model: Human Edition Workshops

    Posted by Alexandra Juhasz (she/her) on April 17, 2026 at 4:57 am

    Dear CUNY Community,

     

    You are cordially invited to Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah’s Building a Relational Language Model: Human Edition — a feminist and critical AI workshop series for CUNY students, faculty, and staff, made possible with funding from the CUNY AI Innovation Initiative.

    Hosted by Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, and Nishant Shah, Director of the Digital Narratives Studio at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, each workshop helps participants experience how meaning is produced differently when humans aggregate collectively (through story, affect, negotiation, and embodied encounter) rather than through opaque, extractive AI systems.

    The point is not to produce a perfect output, but to experience a different ontology of knowledge production:

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      relational instead of extractive

      <li dir=”ltr”>interpretive instead of fixed
      <li dir=”ltr”>collective instead of opaque
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      temporary instead of permanent

    We are not simulating AI. We are building a human relational language model.

    The dates and times are as follows:

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      Friday, May 1st, 10am, in person at the CUNY Graduate Center (students only — undergrads and grad students from all CUNY schools welcome, no prior qualifications needed), BRUNCH PROVIDED!

      <li dir=”ltr”>Friday, May 1st, 8pm, virtual (CUNY students, faculty, staff): food vouchers provided to participants upon logging in to Zoom
      <li dir=”ltr”>Saturday, May 2nd, 10am, virtual (CUNY students, faculty, staff): food vouchers provided to participants upon logging in to Zoom
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      Sunday, May 3rd, 9am, virtual (CUNY faculty and staff only): food vouchers provided to participants upon logging in to Zoom

    There will also be a fifth workshop in Hong Kong led by Nishant Shah.

     

    RSVP for one of our New York-based workshops here: https://bit.ly/3NxO4HA.

    The workshops are small, so please RSVP promptly to ensure a spot. We will keep a waiting list.

     

    Attached is a flyer with details about the workshops and how to register. We ask that you please share with any students and staff/faculty who may be interested!

     

    Please don’t hesitate to contact Alexandra Juhasz or me with questions. We look forward to seeing you!

     

    Warmest regards,

    Krystal Valentin

    Assistant to Alexandra Juhasz

    Alexandra Juhasz[email protected]
    Distinguished Professor of FilmBrooklyn College, CUNY

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